Tony Blair.......

We wouldn't like to see him with a smashed up nose from falling in the snow would we?

Although they are usually very good at clearing the pavements there. I bought DD a pair of snow boots when she worked in Switzerland and she never wore them as she said the pavements were all cleared.

I think it was Liz46, if not I am sure someone who is more politically astute will correct me (they usually do )

Was he in Davos - interfering having a jolly contributing to the World Economic Forum?

Re TB walking on TV last night, wasn't it snowy and so probably slippery underfoot? I noticed his weird gait but then noticed there were piles of snow around, Where was he, anyway?

Weel, they say Hitler had Charisma.... just quoting history......

rosequartz, I hadn't realised that it was Tony Blair's government that banned smoking in public places. If this is so, he is only 99% bad.

Mrs Pickle - charisma. sorry I just see a pratt.

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.

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.

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 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.

Perhaps we have never noticed the slow moronic bionic change.

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

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

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

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

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.

Ha ha soon , fea

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

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>

[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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Mishap Which eye was wild then? It does vary.