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After Ten Years In Office Blair's Legacy Is Accomplished

Posted May 1st, 2007 by Davide Simonetti
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Today is the tenth anniversary of Tony Blair's premiership. After we were treated last week to the 24 page dodgy dossier that Blair handed to Labour MPs in an attempt to secure his legacy (his own answer to the Res Gestae Divi Augusti), The Independent confirms what most of us knew all along:

Blair's bloody legacy: Iraq

Seven out of 10 people believe that Iraq will prove to be Tony Blair's most enduring legacy, according to an opinion poll for The Independent to mark the 10th anniversary today of the election victory that brought him to power.

As the Prime Minister prepares to announce his resignation next week, the survey by CommunicateResearch reveals that 69 per cent of the British public believe he will be remembered most for the Iraq war. Remarkably, his next highest "legacy rating" - just 9 per cent - is for his relationship with the American President, George Bush.

Gordon Brown has been heaping praise on Blair in a vomit-inducing article in The Scum that goes beyond satire. This presumably will ingratiate him with both Blair and Murdoch. To recycle an old quote from Gordon Brown (originally directed at Tony Blair) "There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe".

To celebrate my ten years in

On May 1st, 2007 "Liemaster" (not verified) says:

To celebrate my ten years in office I have instructed the pope to make me a saint in recognition of all the peace I have brought to the world.

In future I shall be known as "Saint Tony" 

Lord Levy also offered the pope a peerage in exchange (plus £5m donation to party funds) but I think the vatican vaults must be a bit low and he didn't want to be called Lord Pope of Sedgefield

As I'm sure you are aware by

On May 1st, 2007 peacewisher says:

As I'm sure you are aware by now, Davide, the link is wrong. It should be:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2499320.ece

Maybe Brown will change his tune once the deadly deed (lying like mad to persuade TB to go?) is complete. Maybe he'll even say he's pulling the troops out of Iraq, on the day he takes over? Pleeeeaaaassseee.....

Peacewisher, I've corrected

On May 1st, 2007 Davide Simonetti says:

Peacewisher,

I've corrected the link now, cheers for pointing it out. Obviously I wasn't aware it was wrong.

Thanks.