Tagged with "Tony Blair"

Mid-Week Round-Up

A selection of the news stories and interesting opinion doing the rounds this week.
by Political News - 15 January 2020
Anti-Brexit Blair's scorn for the British people

Tony Blair is a Remoaner on speed. He dismisses the referendum almost completely. In his anti-Brexit fantasy world, he is pushing immigration policies that Brussels has already rejected, and he has no idea why Britons want to leave. Just butt out Tony. Your daft ideas aren't welcome
by Sir John Redwood MP - 10 September 2017
Nobody wants you back Tony

Tony Blair has spent so much time snuggling up to dictators since leaving office that he has forgotten what democracy means. His arrogant and clumsy attempts to overturn Brexit will only further discredit the anti-democratic Remain campaign. They're welcome to Toxic Tony, and they deserve him
by Joseph Hackett - 10 May 2017
Maniac Corbyn is a product of trends from Left and Right

Corbyn is winning because the centre-Left has been crowded out by the modern Right, and the far-Left, in all its anger and bitter resentment, has summoned up its energy for one last throw of the totalitarian dice
by the commentator - 13 August 2015
Tally-ho, Tony Blair

Tony Blair was at least right about one thing: fox hunting is thriving. This is great for all of us. Foxes may seem cute and cuddly to the urban idiots who feed them, but not to the poultry farmer who finds that a fox in the henhouse has killed the entire flock
by Robin Mitchinson - 20 February 2015
We were right to invade Iraq, whatever Chilcot says

Iraq under Saddam Hussein was notorious for its severe violations of human rights. Some rights activists believe the death toll could be near the one million figure in his three decades in charge. We were right to remove Saddam from power, whatever Chilcot says
by Martin Sparey - 5 February 2015
Tony Blair pours cold water on Miliband election chances

Tony Blair has suggested Labour under Ed Miliband may risk being too left-wing to win the general election.
by the commentator - 31 December 2014
Class war won’t wash, Ed - you’re too posh

By joshing about the differences between Eton and ‘minor public schools', the Shadow Chancellor reveals just how out of touch he is
by Michael Mosbacher - 3 May 2014
Bismarck versus Blair: A foreign policy crossroads

The interventionist dam broke with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inaction in Syria could mark the end of our duty to protect
by Tony Brenton - 14 October 2013
REVIEW: Islamophilia by Douglas Murray

Murray's latest book into the phenomenon of Islamophilia will have you in fits of laughter, and probably fits of tears...
by The Commentator - 12 June 2013
The left hated Thatcher because she thrashed them

Margaret Thatcher is one of only two British prime ministers to coin an ‘ism’ and unlike the other, Blairism, Thatcherism actually meant something
by John Phelan - 8 April 2013
The Labour Party is kooky. It can be beaten

The current Labour leadership is the repository for every failed orthodoxy, every tried-and-failed idea over the past fifteen years
by Douglas Carswell MP - 14 March 2013
Blair's Britain, by the Conservative Party

It is time for the Conservative Party to draw a line under the modernisation (mis)adventure of Blair’s Britain, and return to the surety of conservatism
by Benjamin Harris-Quinney - 27 February 2013
Thatcher's the best! New poll names ex-Tory leader as greatest prime minister

A new poll by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mirror shows that Margaret Thatcher the most respected leader of the past five decades
by The Commentator - 16 February 2013
Not in my name: 'Stop the War' 10 years on

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Stop the War protest in London, against the Iraq War. 10 years on, those who marched should not be quite so sure of themselves
by Peter Cannon - 15 February 2013