Execution date awaits Tony Blair

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/execution-date-awaits-tony-blair/2006/09/08/1157222329179.html

HOW can he stay? Think of the months ahead: Labour falling further in the polls, the Tories gloating, neither journalists nor public servants nor the world at large paying any heed to his policy statements because they might soon be undone.

Imagine a cabinet meeting where he and his successor-in-waiting, Chancellor Gordon Brown, butt heads on a vital issue: what minister is going to back the Prime Minister when he'll soon be gone?

Hear the constant talk of frozen government, panicked MPs calling for renewal to counter a resurgent Conservative Party, the tedious demand every time he fronts a microphone: when are you going?

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/09/08/svBLAIR_narrowweb__300x388,0.jpg

[951-Riverside]

1. ...after he's had a fair trial in international court :D

[screembloodymurder]

2. He stays because he and GW have big plans.

Get them out now!

[MrPrax]

3. Indeed...

Good article...Great Headline ...thx

One of the benefits of a Parliamentary government where the active head of government is involved on daily basis is that he can't hide...these questions are a constant and fair ball.

The other way is to have some guy hanging out in a fancy building, surrounded by non-elected staff writing policy and using every aspect of the federal government to dissuade these questions.

But he could be impeached, no?

[VegasWolf]

4. Execution sounds appropriate, after the Hague trial of course. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Blair is the Joe Lieberman of Britain

He kisses the ass of His Imperial Incompetency, then attempts to cling to office at the detriment of his party.

What a dishonorable man. And after he's gone from power, like other retired long-serving British PMs, he will get a seat in the House of Lords and be addressed as "Sir Tony" or "Lord Blair". He deserves a seat in an 8 x 10 cell in The Hague.