Tony Blair.......

Not surprised there is a lot of flack going in his direction from all fronts.

He certainly bit the head of a reporter tonight on the BBC news. Never liked him, his eyes are too close together

He seems very tetchy at the moment, what with all the Chilcot enquiry delay questions, but as always, he'll come out unscathed...

TB's biographer was on Channel 4 news tonight. He was very defensive of TB re the Chilcot inquiry, said it was all rubbish that TB is delaying things. He even defended TB taking us into the Iraq war, said what were we supposed to do, let Saddam go around murdering people and do nothing about it? The interviewer seemed a bit flabbergasted. I think he (TB that is) is an extremely slippery character and not to be trusted. I bet he's not sleeping well at the mo, though, with all these accusations flying around.

He even defended TB taking us into the Iraq war, said what were we supposed to do, let Saddam go around murdering people and do nothing about it?
Does he mean like Mugabe?

TB did not look well, despite his face lift.

Mishap Which eye was wild then? It does vary.

Crikey Rosequartz, if the picture on the front of the Telegraph this morning is post-facelift he should be asking for a refund!

He certainly didn't look like he'd had a facelift on the news last night. Quite the opposite actually. What is the opposite of a face lift? A face drop?

He looked as if he had had one a couple of years ago as his face looked very taut, perhaps it is sagging now.
I thought he looked quite ill, perhaps it is stress. Perhaps his conscience is pricking him (if he does have one). All that wealth does not seem to have brought happiness.

All that promise we felt when the Blairs moved into No 10 just dissipated over the dodgy dossier and Iraq. TB must have felt elation at becoming PM and then complete desolation at being blamed for the war and all that has happened since. I'm not saying he is not blameworthy, just that it's all rather like a Shakespearean tragedy. I wonder how his children feel about how things have worked out for their father. I think I read that Euan is standing for election as an MP somewhere.

[groan] nepotism is alive and well.

The only thing I will thank him and his government for is banning smoking in public places. How nice to go into a pub and not come out with your clothes smelling of other people's stale tobacco and your lungs filled with 2nd hand smoke.

I dont think that history books are going to be kind to TB.
If I remember correctly, he always wanted a good legacy
It was the first time that I heard anyone talking about themselves in that way. I thought then, that he was concerned about how people were going to look at him in 100 years, and not about how he had done good things or not for his country.
Up until that point, I naively assumed that politicians went into politics to try and do what they thought was best for the country.
<hollow ha ha laugh emotion>

I keep wondering if he can always slip and slide? Does any public figure through all their lives?

Ha ha soon , fea

What happened there?
Feathering their own nests, some of them. Some, not all - some have quite well-feathered nests to start with!
And with an enhanced sense of their own importance.

Well, my thoughts... as if they mean anything
I watched news last night and thought... that man has got problems with his knees, as I watched him walking out to his car.
Poor bloke... he is waiting for the national elf to get 'em fixed.
Wait long time, Tone

He did have rather an odd gait - I noticed, too!

He is so rich he could turn himself into the bionic man

Perhaps that's it - he's just getting used to his new bionic knees..

Perhaps we have never noticed the slow moronic bionic change.

I am no political expert, however I always thought that Tony Blair did a good job during some tough economic and political times. There was none else at the time that I would have prefered to be in his position. I would still prefer him to be prime minister now. With hindsight it is so easy to criticise.

Completing the Northern Ireland peace process (a lot of work had gone on before Tony Blair became PM) would have been a good legacy. Invading Iraq on a completely false premise obliterated it.

I'm no great fan of Tony Blair but he also helped bring about peace in Yugoslavia I believe. It's a shame that Iraq has overshadowed any good work that he did do. Maybe there had been groundwork done in Ireland prior to his leadership but it still doesn't mean it would have culminated in peace without him.

The thing about our Tone... he had charisma. We can forgive and forget a lot with charisma.
I can't think of another politician who has it, except perhaps Nicola Sturgeon.