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[mrph]

Tony Blair appears to have accepted the inevitable and is expected to finally announce a timetable for his resignation within hours

I know that some of you will disagree, but I have to believe this is a good thing. Blair's been there too long, he's lost his credibility and he needs to go.

I don't want to see Labour disintegrate completely - it's not healthy for British democracy when one party is unelectable - but they have to face the future and start fixing the things that the Blair years have broken.

Personally, I reckon he'll be gone before the end of January. Perhaps sooner.

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Re: As vaguely mentioned below...

[zarbi.livejournal.com]

I was not implying it was Tony Blair that drove these things - quite the contrary. But the fact is they happened under labour - we knew that when Labour was elected that many of these things would happen. For a while the tone of politics changed.

Those who proposed such things under the Tories were considered extreme. Those who proposed such things in the Labour party were mainstream. For example, the minimum wage was in the Labour manifesto.

I am not saying Labour deserves all the credit, what I object to strongly to is simplistic catch-all statements that the entire Labour term has been a disaster... I would not even say that about previous Tory governments!