What do you think of Tony Blair and the Labour government?
481784
It's alright for a government I suppose, I can think of worse ones. There's never going to be a great government with people + the world the way it is so I just accept the one we have.
412883
AS-Salam aleikom .  WHY Do you think Brits don't like muslims??\n\n British people do like muslims! \nI'm muslim women who dresses like a muslim, and I have had nothing but respect in Britain.  People go out of their way to help me, in finding places to pray, halal food, no white man would dare touch me.  My rights at school and work are respected, I can wear what I want, practice my religion, and noone can fire me. There are many muslim countries where I don't have as many rights to be muslim, as UK. \n\nPersonaly I find Britain better for muslims then many so called muslim countries!!!\n\nTony Blair is is very good for British Muslims . (Tony Blairs labour govt is trying to bring in a relgigious hatered bill and blasphemy laws to protect muslims. And when those cartoons about the prophet (pbuh) the uk govt was one of the 1st to condemn them, and no British paper printed them) It is with muslims in foreign countries that he isn't good to. IE Iraq. But then again he wasn't good to christians like serbs. SO I THINK IT IS TONY BLAIR WAR-MONGER THING, NOT A HE HATES MUSLIMS THING.
1158836
10 things I would change if i was prime minister:\n\n1) Pensions - You get out what you pay in.  Basically if you have been working and paying taxes all your life you would be entitled to a much higher state pension that those who have been claiming benefits all their life.\n\n2) Immigration - If immigrants want to work they are welcome.  If they just want to sit on their fat arses and sponge then they can go back to where they came from and them claiming that they are in danger of being killed will not be accepted as an excuse to stay in the country.  It is totally their choice which one they want.\n\n3) Benefits - All benefit rates are to be lowered with the exception of jobseekers allowance which will encourage more people to work.\n\n4) Benefit Cheats - All people found to be commiting benefit fraud of any kind will have to pay all the money back plus interest from when they started getting them.  Anybody providing information leading to someone being caught will be awarded a cash reward equivilent to what the person would have got in a year.\n\n5) Council Tax - Council tax will be replaced by income tax to make the system much fairer.\n\n6) Students - Families on a lower income should not have to pay tution fees.  Only students with a net family income of over £50,000 a year have to pay tution fees.  Also write off all current student debts. \n\n7) Smoking Ban - Bring forward the smoking ban as it will save the most lives since the introduction of seat belts in cars.\n\n8)  Burgalars - Burgalars lose all their human rights protection the second they break into someones home and residents may use any means necessary to protect their homes.\n\n9) Criminals - A lot more jails to be built and all convicted criminals must serve their full sentance in jail with no exceptions basically life means life.\n\n10) NHS - More hospitals built and a large increase in taxpayers money going to the NHS to shorten waiting lists.
714609
Tony blair would just change the law to benefit himself.\nThen there would be a new act of parliament preventing anyone from complaining.\nAs far as i know,the thatcher govt left johm major and subsequently the labour govt the wealthiest britain since the industrial revolution with a world beating economic template,all he had to do was follow the rules,...........\nNow brown has given us a 30 billion deficit and an economy built upon the lending of homebuyers.\nits doomed to failure, the world economic boom has helped bail brown out for the labour period of govt.all the time tony spends spends spends luring in the voters..\nwell it looks like its time for history to repeat itself...labour bankrupts the country, the conservatives seize power and dig us out , just when the hard works done,, labour gets in again...when will the left ever learn?
577263
LOL!  Britian must be nice.  A Conservative/Liberal coalition would NEVER happen here in the U.S.\n\nIt doesn't sound like the Labour Party is going to be successful, whenever your next election takes place.
985175
Blair and his minions have destroyed this country.\nThey have intoduced 3,000 new criminal offences.\nThey have put cameras everywhere to follow our every move\nThey have destroyed the NHS; the Armed forces; the Police; our education system; the Pension system; the countryside; planning laws; the civil service; trust in government.\n\nthey surrendered to the IRA and the EU.\nthey lie with impunity\n\nThey pledge a billion pounds to Africa so that Blair can become a world statesmen when we have feral children living in OUR cities.\n\nThe criminal, the illegal immigrant and the drug users have more rights than the honest hardworking citizens who pay for everything.\n\nWe are spied on by our banks, solicitors, accountants, estate agents all of whom risk going to prison if they do not inform on us.\n\nTheir list of their crimes is endless.\nGod help us because Labour will not.
782313
More to the point, what did Blair get out of kowtowing to Bush? Promises of great wealth after he leaves office? I ask this question for what it is worth and not for any partisan reason. (In fact, both Bush and Blair will leave behind huge unfunded obligations that will inevitably lead to large tax increases. Or depreciation of the currency, which comes to the same thing, but falls perhaps on different classes of people.)\n\n"What has Blair gained from his alliance with Bush?\n\n"Blog: Blair is America's 'poodle'\n\n"In quotes: Kendall Myers on US-UK relations\n\n"A top State Department official has delivered a devastating verdict on the state of relations between Washington and London, arguing that Tony Blair has received "nothing, no payback" for supporting President George W. Bush in Iraq.\n\n"'We typically ignore them and take no notice,' Kendall Myers, a senior analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Analysis and Research, said of his British colleagues.\n\n"..."
560943
Why wouldn't he? Prime Minister Blair is a guest of our country, as well as a guest of our President and First Lady.  Was Prime Minister Blair a "poodle" when he was a guest of President Clinton, and when he was taken to dinner or guest at a State Dinner?  I won't even dignify most of the trashy posts to this question, except to say that what I have read so far is a poor reflection on who ever wrote it.  Good thing this is all anonymous.
267484
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.
568559
The Socialist system, like what the UK has, is one of the best.  It mixes with democracy providing freedoms, yet, the government cares for you.  \nI like Socialism as i think that the Government is more responsive to you.
622918
If you can have someone like Tony Blair in office and have nobody bothered, why worry about Ken Livingstone? Admittedly he's a buffoon and has said the wrong thing, but then so have a lot of other famnous people (Prince Philip is the worst!). Let's sack the lot of them and have a democracy!
335622
Tony Blair. This link will give you more info on all of the prime ministers.
871062
Tony Blair has taken away our identity by telling us that we are British and not ENGLISH,  so why not have a football team for Britain (as there is now no English men to play for England, the same goes for Rugby and Cricket and any other team that is still called England) also wants to re-write history now!\n Is he that ashamed of his country's history that he wants to apologise for all and anything that has been done by this country in the past. Why does Blair assume that the only slaves where of ethnic origin, A lot of white English/Scottish and Welsh where sent to the New colonies of America and Australia as convicts. Some of these convicts where sent to these countries for just stealing a piece bread. I think though that racism in this country is a bit one sided.
950505
A few things: \n\n(1) As mentioned above, Blair is a member of the Labour Party.\n(2) While the Labour Party and the US Democrats have simliar ideology just as the US Republican party and the British Conservative party do, it is a mistake to assume the two pairs see eye to eye on everything. British and US politics are not the same and have different traditions.\n(3) Often, when the US or Britain see themselves in a crises, they have tended to stand together in the past 100 years. Churchill was a conservative while FDR was a Democrat but worked well together. \n(4) Sometimes these things are a matter of personal chemistry between the leaders of the parties. Reagan and Thatcher got along great, but the first Bush and Thatcher did not. The first Bush also did not get along well with Majors and this caused some strain between the GOP and the Conservative party.
1086222
Yes, I firmly beleive we should close the borders immediately!!! A couple of years ago the Australians sent a navy frigate to make sure that a boat load of immigrants did not enter, we should be this stringent, and has anyone ever seen how hard it is to emmigrate to a place like new zealand ( you have to show you would be of benefit to the country and if you want to start a business employ two nationals by the end of the first year) I do not accept the 'it helps the econonomy' argument put forward by sympathisers to these people. With unemployment at nearly 2 million nationwide now we should be saying that we will not allow any more in until a large proportion of these people are in work.    If we need better skilled people then do more to train these people instead of giving handout after handout, I do feel that the country is becoming 'ghettoised' for want of a better word and this does not help multiculturalism in the least - it detracts from it and it is no particular factors fault (i.e everyone wants to live with people like them). Of  course I sympathise absoloutley with genuine assylum seekers and the like, however the law states that they should seek refuge in the first safe country they get to, which should make us last in line. In doing what Blair & Co are doing at the momment we are just storing problems for the future - but then a Prime Minister who has already said he does not intend to serve another term in office is hardly going to worry about that now is he!!!
930943
i have to plump for labour, realistically they are the only credible party. The BNP are a joke, much of what they say will happen they could not enforce, the tories just dont have any real policies its all rhetorical clap trap that cameron speaks.
943719
I agree wholeheartedly. Whether or not Bush is doing a good job, and he isn't, he should be the least of Britain's concern. Last I heard, Tony Blair wasn't any better, so they need not complain about our government. Plus, we're actually being affected. They have no idea personally what it feels like to have a man like Bush in power.