Blair will stand down on 27 June

[Ilsa]

Source: BBC World News online

Tony Blair has announced he will stand down as prime minister on 27 June.

He made the announcement in a speech to party activists in his Sedgefield constituency, after earlier briefing the Cabinet on his plans.

Mr Blair received a standing ovation from party members in the Trimdon Labour club as he arrived to make his long-awaited announcement.

He will remain prime minister until the Labour Party elects a new leader - expected to be Gordon Brown.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Ahhh...

I wouldn't worry about him. I am sure he is deciding on decor for his Carlysle offices on both continents as we speak.

[zanne]

2. The video is excellent.

"The Blair years" (to the right of article). It made me realize what we've all been through, and what we're still going through now. But really, guys, we've all been through hell because of jokers like this. I don't know what makes me optimistic now, but it can't get worse with Gordon Brown, right?

[Captain Hilts]

3. He'll be sitting in an endowed chair at Harvard or Stanford by September.

Oxbridge won't have him.

[ananda]

6. well

It's not as though anyone or anything can't
be pressured or bought out these days.

[dipsydoodle]

8. I do hope

it's an electric one.

[LeftishBrit]

15. More likely Yale...

His son already got a nice scholarship there, thanks to Uncle Georgie no doubt.

[Dutch]

16. "Oxbridge" should take him back- Blair's a quintessential Oxford product.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Today's Blair excuse for Iraq: "September 11"

He just put it into a list of things that followed straight on from September 11 - no mention of WMD, Saddam, 'democracy', 'freedom' or anything today. No mention of UN resolutions, or UN inspectors, or "45 minutes to launch WMD". He's fallen back on the 'terra, terra' excuse - but claimed he really believed that he made all his decisions for the right reasons. So how come those 'reasons' have been changing constantly over 5 years? :mad:

[dave_p]

5. Terra Incognita

He just knows it's part of the BushCo line: "There are terrorists there: we know because we drew them there. So it must have been a danger."

How the heck his party rank-and-file can still applaud him beats me. The rot in the Labour Party goes way beyond Blair.

[LeftishBrit]

14. What the hell did 9-11 have to do with Iraq anyway?

Not something that's ever been answered satisfactorily.

[dipsydoodle]

7. A tragic shame

that it won't be even sooner.

[quiet.american]

9. Too bad he wasn't forced from office in disgrace, as he deserves to be.

And I say that as a one-time die-hard Tony Blair fan.

[lovuian]

10. !0 years of War and bush butt kissing not much to be

proud of but he did his job made England a Police state and helped get Bush into the iraq War

he weakened the labour Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_w3olkYrAM
He was definitely the aristocracy man

He was a waste

[roamer65]

11. I say "good riddance" to Bliar.

Hopefully Brown will bring Labour back to its true ideals.

[Alexander]

12. I really hope Brown brings back the old Labour Party.

I think the UK has had enough of two right-wing parties. Small wonder the Lib Dems didn't get more seats.

[LeftishBrit]

13. I doubt that he will completely...

but he may be better.

My feeling as I've said on other posts is that Brown will be, like Blair, a Tory on economic and other domestic issues, but may be to Blair's left on foreign policy.

[emad]

17. Blair resignation: cops name PM's cash-for-peerages arrest date

Trimdon Colliery - (Rotters): Amid a torrent of weasel words that saw Prime Monster Tony Blair heap praise on himself and the Bush Family Evil Empire's UK mobster cartels that he has controlled for over a decade the Metropolitan Police's Serious and Organised Crime division has announced the date when it will drag him kicking and screaming, handcuffed and manacled from Number 10 into the new seat of power specially reserved for him at HMP Belmarsh jail.

"We anticipate arresting and charging Blair under the Treason and Felony Act on the tenth anniversary of his signing a Goldman Sax-sourced $100 million cheque in favor of a Mr O Bin Laden & Co, c/o The Riggs Bank, Bogota," said a spokesman.

"For those who have seen that cheque the date is obvious.

"It's taken us a long time to nail the tosser.

"And now our US counterparts can complete the task by letting Special Prosecutor Patrick FitzGerald impeach the Bushes on treason conspiracy charges.
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