Does Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair have a high approval rating?
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not a high approval rating due to the war in iraq although i think he has done a great job
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His ratings were very high at the end of '01.  However, they are not currently anywhere near that level.  He may well end his tenure having experienced both the highest and lowest approval ratings in history.
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Freedom !!!!!!!!!  In the form of Democracy.   The British GOVT is OK , Prime Minister Blair really runs things well.  The Queen along with the rest of the Monarchy, is a tribute to the past, the History and what the Country symbolizes, but on a day to day of GOVT activities, Mr. Prime Minister Blair runs with it.
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I strongly disagree. Their foreign policy is disastrous. Look at Iraq continually sliding to all-out civil war. Look at the support Bush gave the repressive regime in Azerbaijan just because it is a supporter in the war on terror. Even though I agree with both Bush and Blair on social issues, I would not think twice of electing even the most liberal candidate to replace them.
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Sir Robert Walpole is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister in the modern sense, although technically it is Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, as Walpole only held the title of First Lord of the Treasury.\n\nThe current Prime Minister is Tony Blair (of the Labour Party), who has been in office since May 1997. For the complete list of British Prime Ministers, see List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.\nthere is a link where you can read more on all Prime Ministers of England :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom
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Well and truely up. He is fast become the king of sleaze as he supports evert Labour minitser caught up in a scandal.\n\nEvery porky Prescott still kept his title, money, cars and position as Deputy PM despite being caught out.
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David (above).. I'd like to make a small correction to your assumption, if I may.\n\n90+  percent of the UK population did not support the UK government in its decision to send UK troops into the Iraq invasion.  Hence, you can take it that the UK does _not_ support George Bush today, either.  His only real ally is Tony Blair, who is about to lose his position as Prime Minister mainly because of his support for Bush. If you were to read the serious political commentators, the leaders in many newspapers, discussions on TV and radio, and listen to the conversations of ordinary Brits, you would find that Geo Bush is not supported by the majority of UK people.   Indeed, it would be nonsensical to  support a person whose precipitous and misjudged action has destroyed a sovereign country (forget about Saddam being a bad person - there are plenty of places with wicked heads of state);  whose decisions have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people; who has (according to his own intelligence people) made the threat of terrorism in the West much worse; who has increased the number of terrorist recruits way above that which existed prior to Iraq;  who has spent over $350 Billion of US taxpayers money on this fiasco of a war (and will probably end up by paying even more in order to rebuild Iraq); who has curtailed the civil freedom of his own countrymen, and who has made America not only hated more intensely by the Muslim world, but diminished its standing in the eyes of its Western friends.    No wonder he got a hammering yesterday!
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John Howard, Tony Blair, George Bush.
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Tony Blair- I want to have a cool British accent and he is the most powerful person on the island.
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What makes you think this? What is the evidence of his being poor at organisation? Why would you you want him to run a piss up in a country? It might be entertaining for a while, but it wouldn't sustain the business of State. \n\nIf you ask considered questions you'll get considered responses. For some sort of answer to your present question try this:\n\nIs the country worse off than it was in 1997? If so how? \n\nIs Blair an improvement on John Major? If not, why not?\n\nHow is the economy doing under Labour relative to a similar number of years of economic management under the Tories? Better or worse? I think you already know the answer.\n\nIs employment up or down since the last Tory Government? \n\nIs crime up or down since the last Tory Government?\n\nAre NHS waiting lists longer under Labour's management?\n\nBlair is slippery and slick. He's a survivor and the consummate politician. But underneath all that there is a genuine conviction politician, concerned about the welfare and wellbeing of the people of UK and around the World. \n\nBlair got it seriously wrong over Iraq and this sadly will be his legacy. The good stuff will be forgotten under the mess of the unjust and improper British invasion of a sovereighn country on the most dubious of grounds. That is the issue about Blair.
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Blair's foreign policy is to follow US foreign policy. They did that in the first Gulf War when Majors, A conservative was in power why deviate now?   Also, you just gotta give the guy credit he has to defend his policies not just against the media, but an arguing session against the other party.
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So you know Tony Blair personally well if you don't why did you ask this question. did you go to school with him did you work alongside him did you attend the same Uni, as he. well i don't know him that well so i wont comment on the question. think about it.
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No. He has to get below a 23% approval rating before he gets that award.\n\nPresidential Approval Ratings, Since 1950 \nBelow are the highest and lowest approval ratings ever received by a president in a national opinion poll throughout his presidency. \n  \nPresident Highest Rating Lowest Rating \nHarry Truman 87% 23% \nDwight Eisenhower 79% 48% \nJohn F. Kennedy 83% 56% \nLyndon Johnson 79% 35% \nRichard Nixon 67% 24% \nGerald Ford 71% 37% \nJimmy Carter 75% 28% \nRonald Reagan 68% 35% \nGeorge H.W. Bush 89% 29% \nBill Clinton 73% 37% \nGeorge W. Bush 90% 29%
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From the Daily Telegraph, 30 Nov. 2006:\n\n" Britain's special relationship 'just a myth'\n\n"Toby Harnden in Washington\n\n"A senior American official has spoken of "the myth of the special relationship" between the United States and Britain, arguing that Tony Blair got "nothing, no payback" for supporting President George W Bush in Iraq.\n \n"Bush and Blair at the G8 summit at St Petersburg when their private conversation was overheard\n\n"Kendall Myers, a leading State Department adviser, suggested that Mr Blair should have been ditched by Labour but the party had lacked the "courage or audacity" to remove him.\n\n"David Cameron, the Conservative leader, was "shrewd, astute" to have distanced himself from America.\n\n"In candid comments that will embarrass Mr Bush and Mr Blair, the veteran official said America "ignored" Britain, and he urged Britain to decouple itself from the US. . . ."
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If you base it on his approval rating, then yes.  He has the worst approval rating of any President, including all war-time president's...\n\nI don't think his approval can sink much below the 30% mark, that is when you hit core republican bedrock.  Those 30% would probably still say he's doing a wonderful job even if we were paying $10 for a gallon of gas, we were in Iraq for 10 more years, unemployment sky-rocketed, minimum wage was never raised, only the wealthy could afford college education and millions of americans sank even further into poverty.  \n\nThat is pretty much true for both sides, when you hit about the 30% mark, you are hitting the core of the party.  Can't get much lower than that.
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The Tories in general are the best thing that has ever happened to Britian.\n\nTony Blair has become too much of a puppet of Bush.
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The United Kingdom does not have a President.  It is a parliamentary democracy.  The head of government is Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the head of state is Queen Elizabeth II.