The triumph of Blairism

**Andyw** · 5 September 2006, 08:34

Originally posted by wendigo100

Let's see. What has the "triumph of Blairism" given us?

One big headache !

**Troll** · 5 September 2006, 08:37

1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Low interest rates
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries
11. 78,700 more nurses
12. 27,400 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 700,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for over-60s
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less

**DimPrawn** · 5 September 2006, 08:56

Well, from that list he's been a busy boy.

Well done Mr Blair, what a great man you have been. An impressive list of achievements.

Now **** off, and let us get the Britain back we all want to live in.

**malvolio** · 5 September 2006, 09:02

Originally posted by Troll

1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Low interest rates
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever

...SNIP...

Well done. You have just proved that some idiots would rather believe propaganda than reality. Take one example - waiting times for operations have not halved in the real world, people are merely being put on waiting lists for the waiting list: since these subsidiary lists are not part of Tony's report structure, they don't count. Or I get CVs from graduates that can't spell, have never heard of anything before about 1970 and can't count - but they got straight As at A Level and a 2:1 degree.

Moron...

**Jabberwocky** · 5 September 2006, 09:06

Whoop Whoop, sad old fart alert. People like you should be put down before incontinence kicks in. Anyone over 40 should be terminated. In 1900 male life expectancy in Britian was 49 - and we ruled a third of the globe. Now all we have is a bunch of whining middle managers who stink of pi*s.

**expat** · 5 September 2006, 09:12

Originally posted by Jabberwocky

Whoop Whoop, sad old fart alert. People like you should be put down before incontinence kicks in. Anyone over 40 should be terminated. In 1900 male life expectancy in Britian was 49 - and we ruled a third of the globe. Now all we have is a bunch of whining middle managers who stink of pi*s.

Non sequitur alert. In 1900 we didn't have people like you posting on bulletin boards, and we ruled a third of the globe.

**CaribbeanPirate** · 5 September 2006, 09:12

Originally posted by Jabberwocky

Whoop Whoop, sad old fart alert. People like you should be put down before incontinence kicks in. Anyone over 40 should be terminated. In 1900 male life expectancy in Britian was 49 - and we ruled a third of the globe. Now all we have is a bunch of whining middle managers who stink of pi*s.

OI!!!! I'm no middle manager! I'll have you know that I am CEO/President of my company (bloody yank titles, but they are the people I deal with so I have to keep it simple).

It's a fair cop on the rest though.

**Jabberwocky** · 5 September 2006, 09:25

Originally posted by expat

Non sequitur alert. In 1900 we didn't have people like you posting on bulletin boards, and we ruled a third of the globe.

Yeah but there were comparable figures of my stature about, like Lloyd George and Herb Kitchener.

**oraclesmith** · 5 September 2006, 09:26

Looking at the original post, you can see that persuading Blair that he will go out on a wave of euphoria is a neat trick intended to see him go earlier. The idea is that if you give someone who is retiring the idea that they should go out on a high - and this high is right now - they will be more willing to go rather than wait for the magic to wear off.

They are trying to avoid the problems you get with egotistical bosses who think they need to stay on until everything's running perfectly because only THEY can sort it out. This only prolongs the agony. I know !

So..... yes Mr Blair, you have done an excellent job of running this country for the last 14 years and, given the current tidal wave of euphoria, your achievements will be remembered and admired for all time by your fellow countrymen and indeed all world nations. Bye

The triumph of Blairism