Happy Face 29 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Here it is https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/robin-cooks-powerful-resignation-speech-8357795.amp?client=ms-android-oneplus# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 22003 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Tell you what I have difficulty in forgiving Blair for, his insistence it was STIll the right thing to have done. True enough, we can never know for sure what a parallel world would be like if Hussein had not been overthrown, but it's difficult to imagine the ME could have been in a worse mess than it is now. And Cook demonstrated this didn't require hindsight. Yet to this day Blair just can't admit he made a terrible mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35588 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Here it is https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/robin-cooks-powerful-resignation-speech-8357795.amp?client=ms-android-oneplus# One forgets how prescient that speech was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31209 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Tell you what I have difficulty in forgiving Blair for, his insistence it was STIll the right thing to have done. True enough, we can never know for sure what a parallel world would be like if Hussein had not been overthrown, but it's difficult to imagine the ME could have been in a worse mess than it is now. And Cook demonstrated this didn't require hindsight. Yet to this day Blair just can't admit he made a terrible mistake. The ME may be a mess but imagine how bad things would've gotten had Tony Blair not spent eight years as a peace envoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17661 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Here it is https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/robin-cooks-powerful-resignation-speech-8357795.amp?client=ms-android-oneplus# Thanks for putting that up, remember it well. A link to Charlie Kennedys speech opposing the war in it too. The fact we had two such eloquent, statesman like individuals at the forefront of Westminster not much more than a decade ago seems a long way from the present frontline of bigots, oppurtunists,no hopers and dreamers. Am sure there was plenty back then too tbh, but ffs that seems like a different century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 22003 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Thanks for putting that up, remember it well. A link to Charlie Kennedys speech opposing the war in it too. The fact we had two such eloquent, statesman like individuals at the forefront of Westminster not much more than a decade ago seems a long way from the present frontline of bigots, oppurtunists,no hopers and dreamers. Am sure there was plenty back then too tbh, but ffs that seems like a different century. Agreed, I think. New labour was more than just Blair, and the lib dems had plenty of decent politicians. The conservatives were still cunts mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35588 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 The ME may be a mess but imagine how bad things would've gotten had Tony Blair not spent eight years as a peace envoy. Him in that role btw. How insulting can you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 (edited) He's all ower it... http://www.haaretz.com/news/palestinian-cell-phone-company-launches-west-bank-network-1.4996 Tony Blair has developed a close personal friendship with one of the richest – and most controversial – women in Israel. Ofra Strauss, 51, who divorced her second husband last year, is the head of a £1.3billion food company whose high prices triggered the biggest social protests in Israel’s history. She has been seen so often in Mr Blair’s company that the Israeli press has even speculated openly that they are having an affair." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041507/Revealed-Tony-Blair-s-intriguing-friendship-richest-divorcees-Israel--Cherie-warned-sexy-conspiracy.html “Israel wants an agreement that intensifies the split between Gaza and the West Bank, and that is what Tony Blair is doing,” Ms Ashrawi told The Independent. “Maintaining and intensifying the split would spell the end of a unified, viable Palestinian state.” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/tony-blair-mediating-planned-truce-between-hamas-and-israel-10461712.html This geezer really is taking the piss. "Blair requires as many as 12 police protection officers following his role as prime minister and his advocacy of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a Daily Telegraph investigation published on Friday claims. Documents seen by the Telegraph allegedly show that Blair sometimes visits as many as five countries a week, at a potential cost of between £14,000 and £16,000 to the public purse. The paper reports that each protection officer was likely to be earning at least £56,000, but could earn more than £70,000 given the overtime they accumulate on foreign trips. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/12/tony-blair-police-protection-costs-taxpayers-millions-report-claims Edited July 7, 2016 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17661 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Agreed, I think. New labour was more than just Blair, and the lib dems had plenty of decent politicians. The conservatives were still cunts mind. I think Blairs first cabinet had bags of talent. Their mandate was enormous and they could spray money around with abandon. I do know what you mean that they properly tried to make people's lives better. I worked on an extension to a cottage hostpital in the East Devon town of Honiton. Place a bit like Alnwick. The local health board had this done for a renal unit, so local folk in need of dyalisis wouldn't need to go 30 miles to either Exeter or Dorchester. We were there at the opening, I met the folk from the health board, local Labour Party bods and the patients who to a man/woman said this would make their lives immeasurably better. I do think though the country turned against them once the likes of Mandelson ended up in and out of the cabinet, Campbell being so powerful but unelected, and of course the decision on the war. It's gone now though. We have to start doing things completely differently iyam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15723 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I can't believe she doesn't already think we are. Unpatriotic cow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31209 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Putting the 'Great' back in Great Britain. 'Great'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35588 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Nice to see she's being realistic and not just trying to appeal to the party membership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46035 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 WNB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15723 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 WNBWY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35588 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 WNTWATFBP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46035 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Can't work out what either of you are saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5299 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 WNTWATFBP means basically the same thing as WPWATBRK, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46035 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Just worked them both out. What a bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35588 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Can't work out what either of you are saying. Would not bang with yours / would not touch with a ten foot barge pole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 14053 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 She looks a bit like my old IT teacher at school. She was a fucking idiot as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46035 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Apparently her "major speech on the economy" this morning was basically just a list of slogans about banishing pessimists and believing in Britain. Expect CT to be suckered in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35588 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Best futja PM eva Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22161 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Putting the 'Great' back in Great Britain. 'Great'. Make Britain Great again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46035 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 (edited) May and Leadsom to enter the LezzaDome for a gigantic let-off. Gove is away home for a nappy change. Edited July 7, 2016 by Gemmill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4834 Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 Another woman Prime Minister. If I was choosing today Id go with may, but we'll see what Leadsom has to say over the next few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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