The problem is that lot of the good statistics quoted above were directly predicated on the debt bubble which then, predictably, burst on 18 September 2008.
By that point Blair had already achieved his own personal ambition of serving as PM for a decade. Brown was a sitting duck from day one of his premiership, and he and everyone else knew it.
Blair is not a person in favour with me right now, largely for the utter carnage that is the state of our higher education system. Following his introduction of tuition fees and stampeding over the long-held British principle that free education should be a right, our universities have now been turned into an aggressive, capitalist business bun fight.
The fox hunting ban only ever worked on paper as it was a messed-up, bungled piece of legislation.
As for devolution, just look at the mess that's led to in Scotland. Sure, the Good Friday agreement was a wonderful thing.
I should add the disclaimer at this point that I wouldn't vote Tory with a gun held to my head. There is a reason that particular PM was known as Tory Blair. He was operating on precisely the same neoliberalist model so beloved of Thatcher, who appeared universally loathed (even though just like him, the electorate kept voting her back in).
The War Against Terror, later changed to the 'War on Terror' when its first apt acronym became apparent, was not this country's finest hour and did its security absolutely no favours.
And the David Kelly affair was a national disgrace.