Centerfield

Blair to Step Down

In my opinion Britain is losing it's best. Tony Blair is the ultimate centrist, first known for revamping an archaic socialist Labour Party and introducing free market ideas and reforms to Britain’s government services. For years his popularity numbers were above 70, until the Prime Minister supported the invasion of Iraq. Say what you want about that decision, right or wrong, I have always believed that Tony Blair had a strong grasp on the issue and handled himself in the right way. When intelligence turned out to be false, he admitted it and apologized. If you want an example of how to articulate a war strategy, compared to our President's lame attempts, IMO you need not look further than 10 Downing Street. Seeing Blair and Bush side by side explaining policy decisions to the media was at times a tad embarrassing.

In the heat of making his decision to step down within a year, Mr. Blair had a screaming match with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, who has been a silent partner of a growing faction within the Labour Party calling for Blair's resignation. Funny thing is that Brown will more than likely take Blair's post without a vote of the people. How convenient for him. For those who have said that they prefer European national elections compared to the American Electoral College, I say pack your frigging bags.

The Labour Party fools forget who put them on the map or where they were before Tony Blair. My prediction is that the modern and more centrist Conservative Party, under the leadership of the telegenic David Cameron, clean house in the next national election.

God bless Tony Blair. In the tradition of Winston Churchill he stood with the United States of America when nobody else would, even when it wasn't politically expedient.