View Full Version : Blair to step down
paulc
05-01-2007, 05:06 PM
British PM Tony Blair is to step down in the next few weeks,to be replaced,most probably by Gordan Brown,the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr Blair is expected in Belfast next Tuesday 8th May in one of his last official engagement's the opening of the new Northern Ireland Assembly.
But what do we know of Gordan Brown:
Heres what wiki say about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordan_Brown
DarkFantasy96
05-01-2007, 05:46 PM
Wow, I didn't know this was happening.
paulc
05-01-2007, 05:53 PM
Yea,its been on the cards for sometime.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6610623.stm
DarkFantasy96
05-01-2007, 05:59 PM
So why is he stepping down?
paulc
05-01-2007, 06:05 PM
Blair and Brown done a deal were Blair would only stay at #10 for so long,it should have happened about 2 years ago,but Blair wanted to leave his legacy.
The thing about Brown is, he dosent get on well with Bush,I think hes more pro European,tho its just on tvnews that most Britons want a election when he steps down.
DarkFantasy96
05-01-2007, 06:16 PM
Hmm.... So if Brown gets up there what do you think will change?
paulc
05-02-2007, 08:13 AM
Hard to say,theres local elections in England Scotland and Wales next week,all the pollsters say the ruling Labour Party are gonna loose big time. Gordan Brown has recently imposed big tax hykes on car owenership and travel tax,both of which are hugely unpopular,apart from that,English people arent too happy having a Scotsman as Premier,so I wouldnt be surprised if theres a General Election this year.
dharmabum
05-02-2007, 09:48 AM
The new British PM? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwgTvM1DtQo)
Ick. If I were President I would avoid shaking his hand.
Freethinker
05-02-2007, 02:59 PM
Hard to say,theres local elections in England Scotland and Wales next week,all the pollsters say the ruling Labour Party are gonna loose big time. Gordan Brown has recently imposed big tax hykes on car owenership and travel tax,both of which are hugely unpopular........
'Unpopular', you say?!?
It is hard to imagine anything being more unpopular among the British citizenry than Blair --in dutifully taking it up the ass from his Master, G.W. B*sh-- delivering that country into an unwanted war in Iraq.........and he has lasted 4 yars after doing so.
I truly thought the Brits had a little something that the dimwitted American citizenry did not; a spine.
It appears that the Brits are almost as complacent and gullible as their American counterparts, in allowing a politician who did something so abominable and so obviously wrong to stay in office for this long.
At least they are finally going to rid themselves of him, which is more than can be said for the huge faction of Neo-con zombies in this nation who retain a steadfast support for their warmongering ConservaFascist heroes in Washington.