Tony Blair: I knew Gordon Brown would be a disaster

[Newsjock]

Source: The Guardian

Tony Blair came to the view that Gordon Brown would be a disaster as prime minister and that Labour could not win the 2010 general election, he reveals in his long awaited memoirs.

"It was never going to work," Blair writes of Brown's three years in No 10, arguing that the former chancellor had "zero emotional intelligence" and fatally abandoned the New Labour formula.

Blair's memoir contains a passionate defence of the war in Iraq and of New Labour's public service and welfare reform plans, which the former prime minister believes his successor abandoned.

Although he refuses directly to endorse any candidate for the Labour leadership, he also makes a number of comments which are likely to be interpreted as criticism of Ed Miliband, vying with his brother David in a contest which reaches a climax as party members receive their ballot papers on Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/31/tony-blair-gordon-brown-disaster

[BeyondGeography]

1. Bush's lapdog has spoken

:patriot:

[bemildred]

2. No sense of irony I take it. nt

[xchrom]

4. +1

[Orrex]

5. To be fair, Blair didn't claim that he himself was *not* a failure

Merely that Brown is...

[Dawson Leery]

3. Tony Blair is a disaster. Also, we do NOT want to read his new book

or hear about his religious 'awakening'. :eyes:

[JVS]

6. Brown was left to reap the whirlwind of shit that Blair had sown.

[deminks]

7. No, the Chimperor told you Mr. Brown wouldn't work.

Because he said something to offend Condoleeza. And he called you and told you to get rid of him. And you tried. But Mr. Brown ran a successful coup, and you lost.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/tony-blair/7969925/How-Bush-and-Blair-plotted-in-secret-to-stop-Brown.html

Ever the Poodle, Tony.