Lunaseas opened this issue on Mar 30, 2008 · 39 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 31 March 2008 at 1:55 PM
Quote - You wouldn't have met Tony Blair would you :)
No, as a matter of fact I haven't. ;-)
I can't claim to be anything like an expert on Tony Blair. But from what I've gathered, he has both his good points and his bad points.....so it's a mixed record. I do know that he started out his prime minister's career as a sunny, smiling, fresh, well-regarded personality. But like most all honeymoons, it didn't last. He exercised power, made some decisions -- and in so doing made some people mad. That's the way of things in politics. But the bloom was off of the rose for him after that.
It's curious to note that Blair appears to have ambitions beyond the UK. IIRC, he's now angling to become a Big Wheel of one sort or another in the EU. Perhaps the first truly powerful EU president. That would be.......interesting........if it happened.
It's a rare man who can end a political career with most people still thinking highly of him. IMO, Winston Churchill was such a man: although even he has his detractors. I'd also say the same thing -- in both particulars -- about Ronald Reagan. But Reagan isn't here: and we've got what we've got.