Sir Anthony Blair
 

I looked up the list of 20th century Prime Ministers of the UK.

Almost all of them were eventually either created Earls, Barons or Knights.

Many of them were completely useless and often lied to the country.

Perhaps it's time for Blair to be honoured? Or perhaps not.

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Completely useless...Sir John Major.

Lied to the country...Princess Tony Blair.

Don't all politicians lie though? :blink::unsure:

Personally I think Princess Tony suits him better. :D

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Anthony Eden was another example of a PM lying to parliament about Suez.

For that he got a hereditary Earldom.

Anthony Blair, Earl of Bhagdad has a nice ring to it.

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I know he is now reviled by both left and right, but a lot of good things happened to schools and hospitals under his premiership, also as we mentioned elsewhere, the Northern Ireland peace process. The war stuff was bad though, no doubt about that.

I'm on topic.

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Just the thought of Cherie becoming 'Lady Blair' makes me shudder.............:eek:

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A lot of money was spent on schools and hospitals without any meaningful improvement. Typical Labour policy- throw enough of someone else's money at it and the problem will go away.

As for Northern Ireland, John Major deserves the credit. He started the process of negotiating with the different factions after Margaret Thatcher refused to countenance any dialogue.

Blair also used his predecessor for many of the negotiations long before he and Mo Mowlam got anywhere near it.

John Major, had he had anything resembling a working majority would I believe have proved to be an outstanding PM.

Re: Sir Anthony Blair
 

Let's make him "Earl Blair of Baghdad" - and force him to go and live there,

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As Tont Blair is of scottish descent, he would normally have been awarded the 'order of the thistle' on his resignation, but indescretions about private talks with the Queen led her to withold the honour, and as it is one of those honours that she, and only she, can award, then he was snubbed.

David Cameron has created more life peers per year than any other Prime Minister.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_peer

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"Of Scottish descent" ? Hardly. Born in Scotland and went to Fettes.

Re: Sir Anthony Blair
 

You can have him.

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He certainly can.


( I think we may be guilty of 2 one liners in a row.)

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I have chosen a council flat for him in Drumchapel. Mind you the in formation on Wiki casts doubt on just how "Scottish" he is !

Blair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 6 May 1953, the second son of Leo and Hazel Blair (née Corscadden). Leo Blair, the illegitimate son of two English actors, had been adopted as a baby by Glasgow shipyard worker James Blair and his wife, Mary. Hazel Corscadden was the daughter of George Corscadden, a butcher and Orangeman who moved to Glasgow in 1916 but returned to (and later died in) Ballyshannon in 1923, where his wife, Sarah Margaret (née Lipsett), gave birth to Blair's mother, Hazel, above her family's grocery shop.

Blair has one elder brother, Sir William Blair, a High Court judge, and a younger sister, Sarah. Blair spent the first 19 months of his life at the family home in Paisley Terrace in the Willowbrae area of Edinburgh. During this period, his father worked as a junior tax inspector whilst also studying for a law degree from the University of Edinburgh. In the 1950s, his family spent three and a half years in Adelaide, Australia, where his father was a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide. The Blairs lived close to the university, in the suburb of Dulwich. The family returned to the UK in the late 1950s, living for a time with Hazel Blair's stepfather, William McClay, and her mother at their home in Stepps, near Glasgow. He spent the remainder of his childhood in Durham, England, where his father Leo lectured at Durham University.

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Oh no - you can't wriggle out of that one ;) - he's a Scot alright.

Actually this is one of the many good things about Scottish independence. We won't have to put up with Scottish politicos coming down and messing up Westminster all the time - you can keep them up there and mess you up.

Give us the vote - we'll make sure you get independence.:thumbsup:

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Gordon Brown and Tony Blair - Please Scotland take the pair of them! :thumbsup:

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We can leave you Boris and Nigel to make sure things go well.