PM Blair expected to announce resignation (with in the year)

[sabra]

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060628-020547-3981r.htm

PM Blair expected to announce resignation

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce he will resign as early as next May, The Telegraph reports, citing members of Parliament.

Blair's position has been weakened by the war in Iraq and on the domestic front where former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has publicly criticized his former boss.

The Telegraph reports there have been enough rumors of Blair's exit that the presumptive replacement, Chancellor Gordon Brown, has taken powerful steps like reopening a deal Blair reached on the EU budget.
The newspaper said Blair would likely leave office around the time of his 10th anniversary of prime minister. He took office May 2, 1997.

[leveymg]

1. Can President Cheney be far behind? eom

[Rex]

2. Dam, I got all excited until I remembered his party is supposedly

on Our side! How did Poodle get so twisted into the Bushbot he is?

Reminds me of my fav Bush/Blair video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3319967978568410735

[patricia92243]

4. He and Clinton got along great. think with Bush it is just a matter of n

necessity.

[prolesunited]

3. And I'm sure he will go on to profit tremendously

in the private sector on the illegal war he and Bush started.

[cyberpj]

14. Yep. He's joining The Carlyle Group w/Daddy Bush an all the other

ex-pol moneymakers.

[katty]

5. so in PoliticalSpeak that means close after U.S. 2006 Midterms

[MaineDem]

6. Haven't we known this since the last election?

Maybe the Moonie Times is a little out of the loop.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. He said he'd go before the next election

which will probably be in 2009, but could be as late as 2010. But the Telegraph, which had the story, isn't a Labour-supporting paper - it has always been firmly Tory. It seems strange for "senior Blairites" to be talking to it rather than other British papers. I wouldn't take this as more than rumours.

[T_i_B]

10. Doesn't matter what paper it comes from

It's still just rumours. Blair will go before the next election but I've given up trying to predict when or paying attention to people who think they can predict when he will go.

[Benhurst]

7. Ho-hum. Just leave you evil little twit.

He should have been flushed years ago. :hurts:

[acmavm]

9. He's like bush**. If he's in office another week, that's a week too many.

[WhiteTara]

11. the Poodle keeps promising, when is he going

to actually do it?
:puffpiece:

[Cha]

12. Bye Bye tony..do let

the door hit your ass.

[cyberpj]

13. Gotta get going on the new job w/Carlyle Group while there's still $$$ nt

[SoCalDem]

15. Good GRIEF.. he's been telling us for a few years now

that he would be "leaving".. Just GO already, Tony... He's done about all the damage he could by now anyway, and traded his reputation for a cushy job ...Good BYE..and good riddance