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Old 4th Aug 2012, 21:02
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Tony Blair returns to British politics

I thought I sensed a disturbance in the Force ....

No shadow cabinet return for Tony Blair - Telegraph

Love him or loathe him, you can't deny he was good at winning elections. Should Dave hold off on re-decorating Number 10?
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Love him or loathe him....
Who on earth could possibly 'love' that slimy little $hit?
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I'm guessing that at least Cherie and the rest of the tribe are rather fond of our Tony. Or his bank accounts anyway.

On second thoughts, maybe we don't have to worry too much. I can't see him giving up the multi-million pound contracts he has with the likes of JP Morgan which will undoubtedly constitute a conflict of interests with regard to serious high level policy making positions.
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On second thoughts, maybe we don't have to worry too much. I can't see him giving up the multi-million pound contracts he has with the likes of JP Morgan which will undoubtedly constitute a conflict of interests with regard to serious high level policy making positions.
Can't see that worrying him too much. Or his mates.
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Who on earth could possibly 'love' that slimy little $hit?
I do have some respect for him. Try not to be so self centred that you confuse your own opinion with that of the entire UK, dear old Beags.

By the way, you forgot to use the word "oleaginous", which is customary when you're on a Blair rant. Ditto the very clever "Bliar".

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I think that you might be in the minority there L72
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I should imagine that has put a nail in the coffin of the Labour party's chances of getting back in
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I'm with you Beags!

Maybe he will get the job of teaching the Team GB football team how to kick penalties! Afterall he earns more than the footballers so they might take some notice of him!!
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If this Champagne Lefty to end them all gets any appointment again in any Government it'll be testimony to the gross political ineptitude and short memories of the the British Electorate. Not to mention questionable moral principal and coherence!

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Of course he's well rewarded - he did the same job as Churchill - lied to get us into a war at the behest of his sponsors.
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Of course he's well rewarded - he did the same job as Churchill - lied to get us into a war at the behest of his sponsors.
Kin Ell - I'll have a pint of what you are drinking LOL

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Go on then I'll bite. Who were Churchill's sponsors and in what sense did he lie?
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Who on earth could possibly 'love' that slimy little $hit?
Any one if not every one of the tens of thousands of 'country shoppers' his soft to non-existent border policies allowed to settle in the UK? (His ex-advisor on such matters, Mr McTernan, is now advising Australia's version of NuLabour on how to complete a reprise of that wonderfully successful immigration programme Dunnunda.)
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His next port of call should be a war crimes tribunal.
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I'm prepared to follow him round with a sign reading 'Iraq'.
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Met him once.Very briefly.
The most charming bloke I've ever encountered.But I still wouldn't vote for him.Not after the last time I did..
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I thought that the pic in the link was strangely familiar.



................ Gromit and Wallace ................................. Milliband and Blair

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Love hearing the Blair responsible for Immigration issues when 18 years of Tories made no difference to it then and now.

The he let in too many Eastern Europeans .................true but given overwhelming majority of those who came in actually work for a living and their taxes pay for the 7 million incumbents living here on the dole, welfare, sickness and other schemes then hard one to blame him on. Would economy have grown since 2004 if they hadn't come in ?

War with Iraq and Afghanistan...............no issues there but he not the first PM to bring UK into a war under a false pretence.....................nor will he be the last who interferes in a foreign country ala Call me Dave in Libya and Syria........and thats just at the moment.

Tony Blair no worse no better than other PMs because as much as the hero worship of Maggie T is, people forget she selling off everything just prior to that little incident in the South Atlantic, had Argentina waited a year then Falklands would be flying a different flag.

Blair no worse or slimier than anybody else.
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What I find interesting is that in terms of elections won and time in power he is one of the most successful Prime Ministers ever. So I now ask the question? Why is he not Lord Bliar of Waltermittytown or even Sir Tony
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He stopped Gordon Brown getting into No10. That shot his chances for a title.
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