Your 10 words for 10 Blair years
Updated on 10 May 2007
We asked for your verdict on Tony Blair in just 10 words. You rose to the challenge.
We originally asked 10 political columnists to provide their 10 word epitahs of the Blair years. We then threw it over to you. Here are some of the results:
"We really let him run the country for ten years?????"
Simon Jones
"Northern Ireland: thank you thank you thank you thank you."
Sheila Barrett
"Told you so, told you! Told you so, told you!"
Gerald Sleeman
"Better than Bush - articulate, intelligent, witty. Wish he were ours."
Mary Bowman-Kruhm (US)
"Not Major. Not Hauge. Not Howard. Not Conservative. Not bad!"
Mike
"Complex. Easy to disagree with, easy to admire. That's eight."
Mike (Australia)
"The lives of 650,000 others cannot be followed by 'but'."
Consuelo Green
"Forty year Council housing waiting lists. Private housing price trebled."
Brian Heath
"Education, educasion, edukashon - not my fault mate - Blair, Bliar, Liar!"
Ted Newcomen
"And when I reach ten, you will all wake up."
Martin Craig
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"He tried with sincerity, but got it insincerely wrong - Iraq"
Ian Ringer
"Over-achieved historically in Northern Ireland; underachieved almost everywhere else."
Anon
"Best on Africa and global warming, tragically deluded on Iraq."
Huw Spanner
"We opened the box; hope metamorphosed into a pit-bull poodle."
Ken Brock
"Tick: Ulster, Balkans, Economy, Healthcare; Cross: Imperialism, Perception, Spin, Reticence."
Adrian Flynn
"Blair? Blair? He's the one with the grin, isn't he?"
Anon
"Devolution, economic stability, minimum wage, poverty and waiting lists reduced."
David Collier
"British prosperity, with a flawed foreign policy. Disaster in Iraq."
Glenn Houston (Northern Ireland)
"A war criminal that should get a Saddam-type trial"
Len Burch
"Sleekit, at it, Bampot, Joukin, Bastartin, Yeukie, Vratch, Bourach, Offski"
Roger Mullin
"By his friends shall we remember him...Campbell, Levy etc"
Cameron Donaldson
"Elation. Optimism. Sobriety. Disappointment. Distrust. Disaster. Corruption. Disgust. Despair. Desolation."
Walter Boettcher
"Gifted politician, very smart, genuinely well-meaning, one unforgivable mistake."
Aaron Turner
"Pledges to be whiter than white descended into Tony's Cronyism"
Jonathan Peters
"B-liar! You were the Wind that fueled the Bush fire."
Ravi Juneja
"Spin, significant pauses, longest resignation in history, a shame really."
Richard Moore
"Conservative policies, dodgy accomplices, looming redundancies, farflung atrocities, emigration please!"
Harry
"Sincere smile wins over voters. Less convincing lies lose them."
Joss
"Personal political legacy building at expense of respect for parliament."
Anon
"Joy. Optimism. Realisation. Frustration. Disappointment. Disillusionment. Disbelief. Anger. Pessimism. Sadness."
Richard Ferris
"Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan but left Darfur to rot."
Ryan White
"Whatever Tony did right; I'll never forgive him for Iraq."
Liz Keeble
"Spin not substance. Lies, sleaze, corruption and an illegal war."
Chris Byham
"He started off well enough and then along came Iraq."
Deian Vincent
"Said all the right things, but did none of them."
Indra Sinha
"In how many ways can a man not affect change?"
Andy Billington
"Administrator for Margaret Thatcher that left us apathetic about democracy."
James Russell
"Well intentioned chap; sadly fell in with a bad crowd!"
John Dean
"Teflon Tony: liar, liar pants on fire, you blew it."
Anon
"Education, education, education, war, war, war,spin, con and lies"
Phil Shingler
"Euphoria, expectation, exasperation, disappointment, distraction, destruction, despair, fatigue, fond farewell."
Fay Young
"Dynamically, energetically, unwittingly, pushes the world into an unsafe place."
James Walker
"I feel the Hand of History slapping in my face."
Ian McCafferty
"I came. I saw. I waffled on rather a lot."
Brian Cooper
"Cheesy grin. Receding hairline. Furrowed brow. Straight kind of guy?"
Anon
"The very best Tory Prime Minister there has ever been!"
David Bennett
"Which Blair factor? Africa's champion, warmonger, Bush's poodle, Disguised Tory."
Jaldeep Katwala
"Jerky movements belie a befuddled doublespeak, he lost our heart/mind."
Barnaby Coote
"Good Friday: Bad Iraq; New Labour: socialist Heath; Salmond: plop."
Roger Bell
