Tony's Closest Friends Rejoin the Reality-Based Community

I particularly noted the comment :
"I think Iraq is part of that. The cash for honours allegations is part of that. The unwillingness of certain of his colleagues to recognise the contribution that he has made at this stage is part of that."

Perhaps he could have included :
the death of the post office,
the ruin of our railways
the destruction of the NHS
the complete failure in the education system to actually provide anything like the educational standards seen in other countries.
The raping of our Armed forces
The complete failure to address any real issues with the countryside and farming
The failure to live up to any obligations of value to the world, such as the nuclear non proliferation treaty and the failure to ratify the European Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings.
The stink of corruption within the arms world
The repeated failure to correctly address key issues with the correct inquiries.
The constant erosion of our civil liberties (constant source of amazement to me that people are not only forced to accept this cr@p but are forced by law to pay for it)
The crippling council tax schemes that leave pensioners without food or heat to pay for legislated meaningless services such as smoking cessation officers and five-a-day advisors.
The marginalisation of available NHS services that have been paid for by our taxes that remain idle in favour of friends more expensive and unnecessary private solutions.
The marginalisation of the family in support of single parents.
The marginalisation of this country in the standing of the world.
God, I could do this all day, I think I could summarize this though : "poisonous failure"
That's not a legacy that's what he is.

Krippers minus passwords observations are of course 100% correct.

But no doubt Nu-Lab spin-miseters will attempt to claim that the "Great man" ushered in a time of peace, prosperity, justice, equality and fairness; when in fact the only sector of our society that has made any net-gain is within the corridors of power... Oh, and along with a few peers, lords, business-moguls (corrupt or otherwise) and all the other ordinary hard-working folk that look after our best interests....

Oh well, never mind, just blame the terrists.....

Oh and of course, all the men, women and children liberated of their LIVES in Iraq!!!!

Corruption and duplicity rule the day; Tony!

All absolutely valid points. But can I just point out that you didn't mention Dr David Kelly .... he should never be forgotten.

"Famously reluctant ?" Harold Wilson wisely avoided Vietnam, agreed.  We also didn't assist in the invasions of Grenada and Panama, but maybe were not invited ..

Whether we will pay the price for decades depends on if we stop doing  misguided foreign adventures.

Expanding NATO is the 100% wrong policy.

Abolish the damn thing.

Thanks go to someone who pointed out I had missed a viable addition to the list of the legacy of a pretty straight sort of guy:

Dr David Kelly

That was the one that was pointed out but of course that's also accompanied by :

The Hutton report whitewash.
The attempted sale of personally signed copies of the Hutton report by Ms Blair.
The neutering of the BBC
The Failure to acknowledge that it is looking increasingly like the allegations first postulated are looking very much like they were real, whilst Dr Kellys' suicide is looking less like it was real.
The knowledge that the intelligence was flawed from inception and that an entire war and subsequent annihilation of thousands of innocent people, the subsequent trauma injuries that will have been sustained by the remaining many hundreds of thousands of people are the result of nothing more than a successful f@cking ad campaign with prior knowledge that there was no truth.

Sitting at my desk, my heart is diminished, my hope is challenged, my rage absolute, unrelenting, and wholly justified. I know this list could have gone on  for a long long time I know others could rightly add to it, perhaps it is time we actually made a stand, did perhaps what other political parties lamentably will not do, list the truth of Blairs legacy, not as it will be told by his nasty little spin machine, but as we see it, as it really is. If there could be a way to list it all and ram it down his f@cking throat, with the truth of himself as told by the people echoing in his ears as he takes his final walk out of government then I would want to do it.

There's some good stuff here - I think a sticky 'what Blairwatch thinks Tony's legacy should be' post might be useful.

There's another NHS story brewing at the moment that I'll blog later - it's directly affecting my sister and brother-in-law and entirely 100% New Labour's fingerprints all over it.

watch out, Krippers old chap! "...ram it all down his throat.."? Isn't there an old common law offfence called "uttering menaces"? Ah well, if not, you could always be got for insulting/gthreatening behaviour...