To Bring back Tony Blair As PM ?

[Swirlythingy2025]

basically His experience could be valuable in navigating the current complex geopolitical challenges especially at the moment.

Wow, you really must have been young. Things really weren't THAT great.

That's a matter of opinion I've spoken to many who say things were much better back then and even being young back then,I was still able to see that people were happy felt financially stable.

Things might not have been great for you but for many others they were

I"m not a conservative voter either but have to agree with this. I think politics has always been a dirty business but the calibre of our political class in the last 20 has plummeted.

I agree but it always galls me that Mo Molam and the women campaigners of Northern Ireland are often forgotten when the GFA is discussed.

Major has often been described as dull and boring, and easily forgotten between the “iconic” Thatcher and Blair. With prime ministers, the more dull and boring they are, the better, in many ways. I don’t want “iconic” personalities like Thatcher and Blair, and I don’t want comedians like Johnson and Trump. I want a prime minister that and government that quietly and boringly gets on with the job, starting with their own country. Blair was always too busy meddling in other countries to pay much attention to his own.

100%

My memory is the opposite.
The look on my Dads face when he realised that the private pension he had been paying into since he was 18 was worthless following Gordon Brown's tax raid, he had worked his way up from literally nothing, tried to plan for his and my mums retirement and his hard work was for nothing, he had to work until he was 73 and only stopped as physically unable.
The panic on patients faces when we were stuck in lifts in PFI hospitals built poorly by Blairs cronies.
The massive increases in uni places without jobs to go to, health professionals graduating a few years after me with hugely valuable skills and massive student debt and then working in Tesc, students who had worked so hard and who we had worked hard to help train.
These are my memories of the Blair years.

I really don’t think TB gets out of bed for a paltry £170k a year these days…

Bring back Neville Chamberlain, he will sort this mess out 💯💫

No way. He’s to blame for a lot of the geopolitical problems of today

No. First there is the Iraq war.

Also he is an idiot and he embarrassed the LP recently, didn’t he? A lot of talk about how he has lost his touch.

Also , what the hell were he and his wife thinking, selling their signatures on eBay?? Grasping pair.

I’m sorry they did what now??? Are you serious???

I thought I remembered the story when @marmaladeandpeanutbutter mentioned it so I just looked it up and yup

They must have been skint that week

https://news.sky.com/story/blairs-signature-sold-on-ebay-by-cherie-10491257

It's instructive in a way though.

People seem to vote for Labour expecting a lot of public spending.

The Labour government before Blair ended with a loan from the WB.

Blair found money by binding the NHS to long term contracts with private companies that they're still paying for, and the other things you mention. But it was already coming apart when they lost the election.

But that seems to be the kind of thing they need to promise to get elected. And you constantly see people on MN nostalgic for how much Blair managed to do.

SO I am not sure if it's really down to guys like Blair making bad decisions, or the public that demands those decisions.

…wow. Gross. Lower than I ever expected they’d go, and I already thought they were pretty bottom of the barrel.

Bring back Rishi..
He was brilliant.

some good reading and points overall thank you all maybe in hindsight ill need to reconsider

He did a lot of good (war crimes aside)

I alway liked Gordon Brown (except for the debt part)

He has blood on his hands. He took us into a war based in lies, which he knew about

so no

When his term in office ended, things were just starting to look brighter, inflation was dropping, economy was stabilising. He inherited a mess from Boris and covid and was trying to sensibly and slowly work the country out of it. But it was too little to late for many who were understandably looking for change, I wonder if had the election been a year later and there had been more time for change to be felt in people pockets, the outcome would have been different. He was a bit like John Major - quiet, sensible, intelligent, hard working. But not an obvious politician, and there was a resentment towards him due to his wife's wealth, and possibly a bit of racism at play too - we still seem to fixated on white male prime ministers.

here was a resentment towards him due to his wife's wealth

Which was more than justified when you look at the contracts he awarded his wife's family.

Funniest thing I've read this week.

I sort of agree. Oh the other hand… Immigration is a huge source of concern for much of the public and he failed to stop the enormous legal influx that Boris set off in an attempt to stimulate the economy. He was also politically witless in ways that point to a bit of a moral vacuum — leading the D Day ceremony early for instance.

He’s 72 this month, born the same year as me. Physically and mentally pretty good for his age. He’s way too wealthy now to even contemplate it.

Trouble is that he screwed over small businesses and did nothing to help them survive nor grow after the pandemic. He was ALL OVER big business, but was very happy to sacrifice small businesses. Typical "corporate" guy! That's partly why we are suffering poor economic growth, high numbers of empty shops (and other small business premises), unemployment, etc. Statistics show that the majority of jobs are in small/medium businesses, yet successive governments have pandered mostly to big corporate businesses at the expense of small private ones.