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Blair's epitaph

  • Newsnight
  • 27 Jun 07, 02:24 PM

Blair's gravestoneOn this, Tony Blair's last day as prime minister, we'd like to invite you to write his political epitaph in 15 words. We'll publish the winner on our website.

Or send us your thoughts on his ten year premiership, and what policy changes you would like Gordon Brown to introduce.

Your epitaphs below please...

Comments  Post your comment

  • 1.
  • At 02:49 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • edward bryan wrote:

IN ORDER TO PRESERVE YOUR FREEDOM IT WAS NECESSARY FOR ME TO SLOWLY DESTROY IT.

  • 2.
  • At 03:07 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • jeremy cassidy wrote:

Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

  • 3.
  • At 03:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Iain Scarlett wrote:

Things can still only get better!

  • 4.
  • At 03:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bala Posani wrote:

Three words: Liar Liar Liar

  • 5.
  • At 03:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Welsh Dragon wrote:

SOOOOOOOOOOOO LONGGGGGGGG FAREWELL YOU WON'T BE MISSED

  • 6.
  • At 03:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • ness shah wrote:

smart,talented entreprenuer

  • 7.
  • At 03:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • andy mycock wrote:

1997 - education, education, education

2007 - Iraq, Iraq, Iraq

  • 8.
  • At 03:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Edward Davey wrote:

Decent; sympathetic; misguided on Iraq; brave elsewhere; much-needed at the time; good luck Gordon!

  • 9.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • D'hondt wrote:

THE PEOPLE'S PRIME MINISTER?

  • 10.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • alison carnwath wrote:

Misguided mitrusted misused
The man feared nothing,achieved nothing and left our democracy in disarray

  • 11.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • I Dadhiwala wrote:

TONY WHO?

  • 12.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • RagaMan wrote:

'A! My Inscrutable Hell'
Incorporates a vision of
'The Clumsy Ballerina'

  • 13.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Paul Dornan wrote:


Always as good as his word. Whatever the hell that word was that day.

  • 14.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • seren seren wrote:

epigraph: good bye. Good luck. But mostly - good riddance.

  • 15.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Richard Ball wrote:

Started office as Prime Minister with the highest personal ratings and leaves with the lowest.

  • 16.
  • At 03:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Buckley wrote:

Promised and partially delivered, yet compromised your safety. Now time will judge the real legacy.

  • 17.
  • At 03:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Diaspora Greek wrote:

The best of British for Europe, the globe and the mortality of what we call real politics

  • 18.
  • At 03:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Andrew Hall wrote:

Fourty five seconds is a long time in politics

  • 19.
  • At 03:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Simon Hunn wrote:

"Here lied Tony Blair"

  • 20.
  • At 03:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq

  • 21.
  • At 03:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Sadrudin Kassam wrote:

Now to worry the RCs.
Poor priests who take confessions

  • 22.
  • At 03:13 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

some people condemmed, so people support but Iraq is free, at least he was brave enough to try

  • 23.
  • At 03:13 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Joe Rigby wrote:

EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION, er, IRAQ, IRAQ, IRAQ, erm, damn, EDUCATION ANYONE? Sorry, Love from Tony.

  • 24.
  • At 03:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Richard Ford wrote:

Ups and downs, twists and turns, span to control, but Iraq still burns

  • 25.
  • At 03:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Matthew Boyd wrote:

I would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling Kids!

  • 26.
  • At 03:15 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Chris Roman wrote:

Never did anyone put self and party so far in advance of people and country.

  • 27.
  • At 03:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Keith Rippington wrote:

A memorable man who craved popularity but not at the expense of his inner beliefs.

  • 28.
  • At 03:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tom Fewins wrote:

Here lies Tony Blair.

He was the people's princess. And boy, did he enjoy it.

  • 29.
  • At 03:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • James Beaton wrote:

I counted him all in and I counted him all out.

  • 30.
  • At 03:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • James Walker wrote:

If I was a lapdog then I was loyal, shame my owner was an idiot.

  • 31.
  • At 03:17 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Keith Rippington wrote:

A memorable man who craved popularity but not at the expense of his inner beliefs.

  • 32.
  • At 03:19 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Lucy wrote:

Undeterred by friends and foes dissenting left and right, he warred – but why? God knows.

  • 33.
  • At 03:19 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • f cornford wrote:

HERE LIES ONE WHO SINCERELY BELIEVED IN HIS OWN UNTRUTHS

  • 34.
  • At 03:20 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Rev Counter wrote:

I came, I saw, I fiddled.

  • 35.
  • At 03:20 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Keith Rippington wrote:

A memorable man who craved popularity but not at the expense of his inner beliefs

  • 36.
  • At 03:20 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Barry Richard Reed wrote:

May the UK rest in peace?

  • 37.
  • At 03:20 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Forextrader wrote:

I couldn't quite get us into Europe, so I invited Europe over here instead

  • 38.
  • At 03:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • tony dhillon wrote:

You were responsible for the death of thousands in Iraq and could have avoided deaths last summer in Lebanon. Middle east peace envoy- someone must have a sense of humour!

  • 39.
  • At 03:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tim James wrote:

Epitaph:

CRAP

  • 40.
  • At 03:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • William Ryan wrote:

You don't need 15 words ,15 letters will do.
"A Bloody Disaster"

  • 41.
  • At 03:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Paul Webber wrote:

AN HISTORIC THREE TERMS AND FREEDOM FOR IRAQ. A CATHOLIC GOD WILL SURELY JUDGE ME.

  • 42.
  • At 03:22 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • William Smith wrote:

He did much good, but he followed President Screw-Up (G.W. Bush) into Iraq.

  • 43.
  • At 03:22 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • bambi wrote:

I did what I thought was right. I fought in Kosovo, Afgahanistan, Sierra Leone, Iraq....

  • 44.
  • At 03:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Well-meaning figleaf-in-chief seeks salvation in the supreme war crime, killing "humanitarian intervention".

  • 45.
  • At 03:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Lord Gidds wrote:

It's a great privilege to serve. I've been and this country has been blessed.

  • 46.
  • At 03:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • nick johnson wrote:

I loved Israel like no other

  • 47.
  • At 03:24 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Barry Richard Reed wrote:

May the UK rest in peace?

  • 48.
  • At 03:24 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Dr James Gregory wrote:

"Shiny shiny bright new thing,
full of smiles and shifty spin,
washing hands of everything"

Yours,
Surgeon Lieutenant James Gregory Royal Navy Retired
Paralysed (high-level quadriplegic) March 2002 In Helicopter Crash in Northern Ireland.
Still picking up pieces following successful claim versus MoD.
Still Smiling.
Can't wait to see the back end of Blair.

  • 49.
  • At 03:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Stephen Plunkett wrote:

A master illusionist, in step with Britain, who spun ideas and failed to follow through.

  • 50.
  • At 03:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Finola O'Sullivan wrote:

So many lives lost needlessly and still we don't know why!

  • 51.
  • At 03:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Amy Williams wrote:

Loyal husband, devoted father, Prime minister and murderer of thousands...

  • 52.
  • At 03:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • ken willis wrote:

many thanks from all the hundreds of
thousands of illigal immigrants
and bogus asylum seekers

  • 53.
  • At 03:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve Rosenthal wrote:

Shoulder to shoulder, the consummate friend of Israel.

  • 54.
  • At 03:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Trisha Rodgers wrote:

At last the long goodbye eeeee. Never thought it would come.

  • 55.
  • At 03:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • ralph johnston wrote:

I was Prime Minister for longer than Gordon will be. That's my legacy.

  • 56.
  • At 03:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Martin wrote:

Poodle.

  • 57.
  • At 03:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • stephanie wrote:

There goes a man who could only exist in the shadow of an American President!

  • 58.
  • At 03:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Hertbert wrote:

It start full of hope, then Bush appeared the downward slope no apologies no surrender.

  • 59.
  • At 03:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bradley Kieser wrote:

Here lies a great career... not the only lies here.

  • 60.
  • At 03:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jo H wrote:

Nobody's perfect, but some of us try to do what we believe is right.

  • 61.
  • At 03:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • jeremy fraser wrote:

Great briton
He loved this country and he gave us the ability to be better

  • 62.
  • At 03:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Lied. Survived. Died

No more lies

  • 63.
  • At 03:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • James wrote:

People had faith during 4 years of inactivity. People lost faith when I acted decisively.

  • 64.
  • At 03:28 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Emma Burnell wrote:

More than Iraq, Less than Expected

  • 65.
  • At 03:29 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Hertbert wrote:

It start full of hope, then Bush appeared the downward slope no apologies no surrender.

  • 66.
  • At 03:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • david jones wrote:

Fortunately, the diary and lecture tour will explain that everything was actually a great success.

  • 67.
  • At 03:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Neil Rodgers wrote:

Blair will certainly go down in history - Brown cant possibly do any worse can he!

  • 68.
  • At 03:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Neil Rolingson wrote:

" A brilliant strategic mind with absolutely no street sense"

  • 69.
  • At 03:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ben Russell wrote:

The promise of a new man, a man of new promises; an old man now.

  • 70.
  • At 03:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Spencer wrote:

He sought to create the world in his own image - now trying this with God.

  • 71.
  • At 03:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Here lies a man who declared war for democracy leaving an unelected leader to rule

  • 72.
  • At 03:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Stephen Plunkett wrote:

A master illusionist, in step with Britain, who spun ideas and failed to follow through.

  • 73.
  • At 03:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • carole wrote:

I came I saw I conquered
I should not have bothered
so the Iraqis said

  • 74.
  • At 03:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kim wrote:

"Things can only get better"- you proved that wasn't the case.

  • 75.
  • At 03:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • bola adesina wrote:

tony blair re-invented britain as an econopmic super-power.brown should avoid following usa foolishly.

  • 76.
  • At 03:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Elections won
Government done
Wars --- lost
Been too boss'd
By the tossed
and burning Bush

  • 77.
  • At 03:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Adrian Adams wrote:

He flew by the seat of his pants and governed the same

  • 78.
  • At 03:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Walker wrote:


Sic transit hubris Wednesday....

  • 79.
  • At 03:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

The people's yearning for real governance was greater than his yearning to really govern them.

  • 80.
  • At 03:34 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • SUSAN wrote:

he came he saw - he floundered

  • 81.
  • At 03:34 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Spencer wrote:

A self-created man who worships his own maker.

  • 82.
  • At 03:35 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ben Russell wrote:

The promise of a new man, a man of new promises; an old man now.

  • 83.
  • At 03:35 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Janice Carter wrote:

I came, I saw, I wandered, squandered, floundered, surrounded, confounded, blundered, hounded, I surrendered.

  • 84.
  • At 03:35 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Les Braim wrote:

Epigraph:

New Bleugh!

  • 85.
  • At 03:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alec Parsons wrote:

Ten wasted years, one hundred and fifty three wasted lives, worst Prime Minister. Good riddance!

  • 86.
  • At 03:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Chris Francis wrote:

I had a choice to put the people first, but I chose to ban foxhunting instead.

  • 87.
  • At 03:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

lying for war
if that doesn't merit a resignation
nothing ever will

  • 88.
  • At 03:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Walker wrote:

sic transit hubris Wednesday

  • 89.
  • At 03:37 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Pip Hodge wrote:

"Im glad I finished early,what a nation of wimps"

  • 90.
  • At 03:37 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Iain Mackay wrote:

I was a good socialist, I came with nowt, used yours and changed the truth.

  • 91.
  • At 03:38 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Muhamet wrote:

Thank You Tony Blair, YOU will remain the symbol of PEACE, a man who did so much for the wellbeing of all the people in the world, THANK YOU again;

kind regards,
Muhamet

  • 92.
  • At 03:38 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Lawrence Hamilton wrote:

Gordon, as you are now I once was. As I am now, you will be.

  • 93.
  • At 03:38 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Freddie Mbuba wrote:

I Joined The Strong To Destroy Brutal Regimes While Carrying The Weak On My Shoulder!

  • 94.
  • At 03:39 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Maddy Knibb wrote:


Failed to repeal the Law of Unintended Consequences and fell foul of it throughout.

  • 95.
  • At 03:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

I did it my way...

  • 96.
  • At 03:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bill wrote:

Bulldog to Poodle to Greyhound to Afghan.

  • 97.
  • At 03:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Francisco Di Blasi wrote:

He is now really free to proceed onward!

  • 98.
  • At 03:41 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Nicola O'Reilly wrote:

A lot done. A lot not done. A lot left for someone else to do...

  • 99.
  • At 03:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Helen wrote:

He smoothed some of the hard-edges off Thatcherite Britain, whilst not being cautious enough overseas.

  • 100.
  • At 03:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • doctor fish wrote:

he came, he saw, he cocked up

  • 101.
  • At 03:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • P. Shelley wrote:

Goodbye Tony Blair.
You had nicer hair
than John Major

  • 102.
  • At 03:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • walter plant wrote:

Great start,much done including better schools,health,police,Sierra Leone,Bosnia,Iraq only blemish.

  • 103.
  • At 03:44 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Katsumi Ichimura wrote:

The prime minister rode durable modern British economic strength and decided controversial Iraq war participation.

  • 104.
  • At 03:45 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • M Yates wrote:

I leave you knowing that I achieved my main aim, to be 'richer, richer, richer'.

  • 105.
  • At 03:45 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

I did it my way

  • 106.
  • At 03:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Charles Leach wrote:

A good and intelligent man who became the lap dog of an evil blundering idiot.

  • 107.
  • At 03:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Helen Samuels wrote:

Bush had me by the short and curlys!

  • 108.
  • At 03:47 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Salisbury wrote:

My fellow english people of ameriengland, may I just say, "I did it my way".

  • 109.
  • At 03:47 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ludvik Novak wrote:

PROUD TO HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIRST EVER SCOTTISH NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT IN HOLYROOD

  • 110.
  • At 03:47 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jo Livingston wrote:

His legacy came down to blood and sand,
He goes, defeated, into no-man's land.

  • 111.
  • At 03:47 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

I did it my way

  • 112.
  • At 03:48 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jimbo wrote:

The best political operator since Benjamin Disraeli, but the worst administrator since Ethelred the Unready

  • 113.
  • At 03:49 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Themos Tsikas wrote:

Ali Torn By

Tony Blair

  • 114.
  • At 03:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Daniel Booth wrote:

I'VE DONE ALOT, CHANGED THINGS AROUND, AND HAVE LEFT THE MESS FOR GORDON BROWN.

  • 115.
  • At 03:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Helen Samuels wrote:

Bush had me by the short and curlys!

  • 116.
  • At 03:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • AZac wrote:

YOU MADE THIS WORLD A WORSE PLACE TO LIVE. YOU GAVE DEMOCRACY A BAD SPIN.

  • 117.
  • At 03:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Claudio Frasca-Polara wrote:

I was the very conscience of my time which, in truth, was devoid of it.

  • 118.
  • At 03:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

He did nothing but overflowded his country and people with so many problems and dilemmas. He brought them so heavy losses in his dear people's lives and money. They do need years and years to get rid of his very bad hertiage.

  • 119.
  • At 03:52 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • pilar val wrote:

I tried to do my best in all my commitments. Hope I succeeded in some.

  • 120.
  • At 03:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Terry Willingham wrote:

Northern Ireland 1 - Iraq 0,
Health Service 1 - Education 0,
Presidential Style 1 - Democracy 0.

  • 121.
  • At 03:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Franck K. TOKPLEN wrote:

As British Prime Minister,I did what I might

  • 122.
  • At 03:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Vincent F Holmwood wrote:

There was a promise of a great Prime
Minister but he was far to close behind Bush for his & his country's good.

  • 123.
  • At 03:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Adam Strudwick wrote:

Being a friend of Srichand Hinduja is no qualification for being peace envoy in Falluja.

  • 124.
  • At 03:55 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Dave Purnell wrote:

Here lies

  • 125.
  • At 03:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Snorri Birgisson wrote:

Tony Blair plays bad music so brilliantly that it begins to sound like good music.

  • 126.
  • At 03:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ollie H wrote:

Focus UK aid effort, i.e. NGO money, DfID & MoD effort on one deserving country and make a real, lasting change rather than band-aid temporary fixes.

  • 127.
  • At 03:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Matthew wrote:

The best Prime Minister America ever had.

  • 128.
  • At 03:57 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve L wrote:

Statesmanship loomed but the war was my doom

  • 129.
  • At 03:59 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Adrian Hughes wrote:

Education, Education, Education Induced Political skullduggery and Facades.

Cultural, Economic Erosion, yet a Saintly Smile.

  • 130.
  • At 03:59 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • lisa wrote:

I came, I saw, I conquered,
I fell, undetected, I left.
PS. I wasn't wrong.

  • 131.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Chris Hills wrote:

We had such hopes, but you turned out to be just as bad as all the others.

  • 132.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ian wrote:

The road to hell is paved with Blair's intentions

  • 133.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tom Pegg wrote:

Here lies the victory of style over substance - may he keep spinning in his grave.

  • 134.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mackie Blanton wrote:

My Kingdom, My Kingdom -- for a pony! A donkey?

  • 135.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jon (US) wrote:

He came, he saw, he concurred

  • 136.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • campbell wrote:

A potentially golden era forever blighted by Iraq.

  • 137.
  • At 04:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alan Hazlewood wrote:

Meant well, talked well, spent well, failed well

  • 138.
  • At 04:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Smeddum wrote:

Tony's chariot,
Filled with fire...
Hope to glean,
Best Tory PM,
We'd ever seen...RIP.

  • 139.
  • At 04:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Susanna Leoni-Smith wrote:

Look OK, I was right, even when I was wrong it was still OK because I believed I was right, OK?

  • 140.
  • At 04:02 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

I was trying to look after my nation by destroying other.

  • 141.
  • At 04:02 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Robert Page wrote:

Like the black death he'll never be forgotten.

  • 142.
  • At 04:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ian OLIVER wrote:

I am so confident of my virtue that I have negotiated Sainthood.

  • 143.
  • At 04:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John E. Norem wrote:

Bush's lap was warm and comfortable and he never complained about the occasional urine stain.

  • 144.
  • At 04:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Conor wrote:

'Tis a shorter line to jump on my grave than on the Iron Lady's

  • 145.
  • At 04:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • bonas50 wrote:

I didn't live in England during he tenure so I can't speak for his watch. But if I'm allowed may I say, that I thought he is a good man who was boxed in by Bush and Cheney. He stayed the course because of his loyalty to the American people. You'll get no epigraph from me, either comical or anything of disdain. Sorry to see a real gentleman go... But I think he'll be around as the diplomat he is, on lend to the Middle East.

  • 146.
  • At 04:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Burns wrote:

I outlived David Kelly

  • 147.
  • At 04:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Leigh Adams wrote:

Alas, handsome devil with educational flair and committment turns into scarcely housebroken Bush Poodle

  • 148.
  • At 04:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ronnie Parry wrote:

I may have aged, I may have blundered
I may have prayed, and often wondered

  • 149.
  • At 04:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Fergus wrote:

HERE LIES TONY BLAIR

WELL WHY GIVE UP THE HABIT OF A LIFETIME

  • 150.
  • At 04:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Lord Ahmed wrote:

LIED THROUGH SPIN
NEVER DOUBTED HIS MASTER, AMERICA & ISRAEL

WENT TO THE HEREAFTER AND OOOPPPS I WAS WRONG.

  • 151.
  • At 04:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • steve toole wrote:

Now look, I was a pretty straightforward kind of PM you know. Well, kind of!

  • 152.
  • At 04:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Burns wrote:

I outlived David Kelly

  • 153.
  • At 04:07 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Adam wrote:

KING of SPIN

  • 154.
  • At 04:07 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Andrew wrote:

A great political strategist, never far from controversy, but always with the best of intentions.

  • 155.
  • At 04:07 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • maggie thomas wrote:

A man of tragically poor judgment with devastating consequences.

  • 156.
  • At 04:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Brian wrote:

Tony Bliar lies here.

  • 157.
  • At 04:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Never in the field of public service has one man lied so much to so many to benefit so few.

or

Tried and failed to last as long as Thatcher.

or

I sincerely hand on heart believed that what I did was right, the same as any paranoid delusional lunatic.

or

Blair 3 - Britain 0.

or simply

Blair, Good riddance to a paranoid delusional fraudster.

  • 158.
  • At 04:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ernest Pullen wrote:

Full of promise, yet nothing fulfilled.

  • 159.
  • At 04:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

Whatever you say, George. Let us pray. Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, slobber, slobber.

  • 160.
  • At 04:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mike wrote:

Tony Blair,
Dancing on the graves of hundreds of thousands.
Who will dance on his?

  • 161.
  • At 04:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Paul Rowinski wrote:


Blair's
Fairness - greater polarity,
Education/health policy - choices for the few,
Betrayals - Iraq AND Europe.

  • 162.
  • At 04:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Vicky wrote:

Charming, vain, loyal, stubborn, thick-skinned, obsessive and alas suffered from spotlight attention disorder.

  • 163.
  • At 04:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • realistic lorry wrote:

Goodbye Tony

We're gonna miss you loads

And Cheri,

And so will the Iraqis.

Not.

  • 164.
  • At 04:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Chandler wrote:

He showed no sin,
with his grin,
nor his hands,
across the sands,
Probably

  • 165.
  • At 04:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Gwyn Tovey wrote:

Reviled by ill-educated Britons; applauded by those who acknowledged a Great Briton in Britain.

  • 166.
  • At 04:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Howard Young wrote:

Here lied Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Caught between Iraq and a hard place.

  • 167.
  • At 04:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • David Byerley wrote:

Tony's Disapearence after 10 Years of the "Blair Bush Project"

  • 168.
  • At 04:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Oli wrote:

I feel the hand of history caressing my shoulder.

  • 169.
  • At 04:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Andrew Munro wrote:

He came, he span, he bypassed, he ignored, he travelled, he prayed - he was good.

  • 170.
  • At 04:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • elizabeth veldon wrote:

look on my works ye mighty and titter

  • 171.
  • At 04:15 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Richardola' wrote:

Parcel your achvievements and forward to GOD, Expect a 'PEACEFUL JOB' in the future.

  • 172.
  • At 04:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Stella wrote:

His career resembles a children’s balloon; roaming in the sky, ending up deflated and discarded.

  • 173.
  • At 04:17 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • grainne m wrote:

He was a true contender, potentially great leader, until he tripped on his own arrogance.

  • 174.
  • At 04:17 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Martin Kirk wrote:

Promise unfulfilled, truth untold, honour disdained, privilege promoted, trust destroyed, self deluded, and welcome outstayed

  • 175.
  • At 04:18 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • laurie clements wrote:

Pontious Pilate - his personal exit strategy before his nations - left with blood still on his hands

  • 176.
  • At 04:19 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Bonnar wrote:

Just list the names of all the dead in Iraq, unfortunately it's more than 15.

  • 177.
  • At 04:19 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mateen A. Zia wrote:

The Prime Minister of UK always preferred to be Foreign Minister of USAsunk nation

  • 178.
  • At 04:20 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alex arshall wrote:

He told his lies so often, he soon believed in them himself.

  • 179.
  • At 04:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve Savi wrote:

Here lies a man with his good intentions, blood stained hands and an American dog-collar

  • 180.
  • At 04:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bo Yung Kim wrote:

PM who has all the glory with reforms and improvements covered by one mistake, Iraq

  • 181.
  • At 04:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Fenelon wrote:

Epitaph - in the words of ACLB's near-namesake Eric Blair...

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"

Hell, it's 16 words. But when did Tony Blair ever abide by the rules?

  • 182.
  • At 04:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jeremy Horton wrote:

Consummate professional politician. Made the hard decisions in Britain's interests. Hampered by naive, hypocritical media.

  • 183.
  • At 04:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • seren seren wrote:

In February 2003, 2 million people demonstrated against going to war.
In March 2003 we went to war. utter contempt for the electorate.

  • 184.
  • At 04:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Sarah wrote:

"That is that, the end."

  • 185.
  • At 04:24 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • ephi wrote:

the road to hell is paved with good intentions, simplistic analysis, political correctness & "targets" culture

  • 186.
  • At 04:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • grainne m wrote:

Without humility a great leader you cannot be

  • 187.
  • At 04:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Master of Spin and Presentation.

Media Savvy Government Weak.

Had World Stage successes - and Failures.

  • 188.
  • At 04:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • mark opio wrote:

" The Man, The leader, The brave, Tony Blair" Thank you for what you have done. I wish you still hold that possition. Thank you, thank you.

  • 189.
  • At 04:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tunde wrote:

He came into office with high hopes, and leaving it with higher hopes for Britain's future.

He have been lucky and very blessed. And the country is a blessed nation

  • 190.
  • At 04:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Paul Hughes wrote:

Pretty straight guy?
Just doing his job.
Except, his employer
was Bush, and his God

  • 191.
  • At 04:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alice Evans wrote:

He sought to lead a Great Britain but being convinced in in his own infallibility and thereby insulated from our voices, he failed to please.

  • 192.
  • At 04:28 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Graham Jones wrote:

T he O utwardly N arcis'sistic Y uppie

B ushwacked L abour A nd I ncurred R evulsion

B lantently L ied A bout I raqi R isk

  • 193.
  • At 04:29 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • seren seren wrote:

Blair and his WMD's - words of mass deception - are no longer. RIP

  • 194.
  • At 04:29 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Paul Bridgeland wrote:

Better schools, better hospitals, better off .. but worth 600,000 dead?

  • 195.
  • At 04:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve B wrote:

The man who
Overhauled
New Labour,
Yes!

But who
Lost it
All in
Iraq.
RIP

  • 196.
  • At 04:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Nana Yaa wrote:

Came in like a masked crusader,
Left us with unresolved issues
And an unending war.

  • 197.
  • At 04:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Wilson wrote:

Motivated by glorious thoughts and deeds of true passion - the master of spin.

  • 198.
  • At 04:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Royston wrote:

Poor Tony Blair, how he lied,
No one laughed, and no one cried,
Where he's going, and how he fares,
No one knows, and no one cares.
(with apologies to the epitaph of John Gray).

  • 199.
  • At 04:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Francisco Di Blasi wrote:

A political Dorian Gray whose major sin was to have unprotected intercourse with George Bush.

  • 200.
  • At 04:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Cesar Jabr wrote:

We + New Labor - I.T.O. = Tony Blair

  • 201.
  • At 04:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bill Bleakley wrote:

He began as the peoples prime minister. He leaves bruised but true to his convictions.

  • 202.
  • At 04:34 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Gill Shepherd wrote:

VAIN, FOOLISH, SELF-OPINIONATED BUT UNFORTUNATELY GOOD-LOOKING. WE WERE ALL OUT OF STEP BUT HIM.

  • 203.
  • At 04:35 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kate London wrote:

Good night, sweet prince, and flights of fighter jets sing thee to thy rest

  • 204.
  • At 04:35 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • MATTHEW GODWIN wrote:

"I'm for the many and not the select few", words spoken by Tony Blair 10 yrs, 2 months ago. Has he delivered?

Spin, more spin and counter spin, Illegal Iraq war, Immigration, Health and Education, Climate change, Terrorism - all a mess!, people living in fear due to rising violent crime, rising unemployment, corruption and greed at the heart of government and by employers per se. A country that has imploded in on itself.

Cost of living and especially Housing has hit people hard. Remember the pensioners sent to jail because they could not afford to pay their punitive Council Tax Bill?, the pensioners that were given just 75 pence rise in their state pensions, The slow clap of The Women's Institute because of the offence he caused, do you remember when he had to address their conference a few years ago? How he was heckled and booed off the stage before being slow clapped by the restless, angry crowd?

Risks to public health H5N1 (bird flu), a farcicle legal system.

So has Tony Blair delivered on his promise to be for the many and not the select few? well no not really. This country has got worse since he took over, less tollerant, very harsh, inconsistent, full of dishonesty. A feeling that nobody in authority actually cares anymore for anybody. Marks out of 10? 3.

  • 205.
  • At 04:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Joe Hooker wrote:

I lied to the nation, I sold peerages for money, I'm not even sorry.

  • 206.
  • At 04:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Blair's 10 yr.leadership & resignation is a lesson to longserving African leaders like Mugabe.

  • 207.
  • At 04:37 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jexi wrote:

Ten years late, better than never...

The middle east can have...

  • 208.
  • At 04:39 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Elena Dennison wrote:

May my successor prove me good

  • 209.
  • At 04:39 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Me and Sherry got it right were now going to Gaza to re-start a fight.

  • 210.
  • At 04:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Benedict Aloysius wrote:

I admire the man and the Politician in him.
He addressed the Houses of French Parliament in 'French'.
All you vilifiers, in UK, cross over in Shuttle and speak to one Frenchman on road in 'french' and then open your blessed mouth.
Thank you.

  • 211.
  • At 04:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • frank wrote:

My ill-planned ends justified my illegal means.

  • 212.
  • At 04:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • JoeL wrote:

Children thrived.
Iraqi’s died.
East Lothian rumbles.
Did he do well?
God knows; time tells.

  • 213.
  • At 04:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Noel Tobin wrote:

In the words of Tony Blair,
"I simply say,
she was the people's princess. I was the people's Prince".

  • 214.
  • At 04:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Robert Bennett wrote:

Some have failure thrust upon them

  • 215.
  • At 04:41 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Phil Donelan wrote:

Dear God, What went Wrong?
Was I really in the wrong Party?
Phil D

  • 216.
  • At 04:41 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kevin wrote:

The nation the nation the nation
Education education education
Invasion invasion invasion
Damnation damnation damnation

  • 217.
  • At 04:41 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jeremy Horton wrote:

Condemned by no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Disputed by thousands of murdered Kurds.

  • 218.
  • At 04:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Vivian Perkins wrote:

Gone but not forgotten - unfortunately!

  • 219.
  • At 04:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Richard Eves wrote:

MY LEGACY WAS TO LEAVE THE U.K. THE SECOND MOST DESIRABLE TERRORIST TARGET ON EARTH

  • 220.
  • At 04:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • charles wrote:

Real world evidence of my insanity has only re-inforced in me the belief that I did the right thing. But before you call that denial, let me say that I respect your for having a different view, why can you grant me the same.

  • 221.
  • At 04:43 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ben Jenkins wrote:

There was no white wash for Downing Street

  • 222.
  • At 04:43 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mike Constable wrote:

At home, a great success. Abroad, fought the wrong enemy in the wrong place (Iraq)

  • 223.
  • At 04:45 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • chris wrote:

I may have the weak and feeble body of a politician, but I have the heart of a great actor.

  • 224.
  • At 04:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Neil Lynch wrote:

Courage to protect to us from those who use our freedoms to destroy.

  • 225.
  • At 04:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • john bailey wrote:

Are you sure you didn't mean epithets?

  • 226.
  • At 04:48 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ken Lewis wrote:

He has lied and cheated throughout his 10 years and so many broken promises,Brown is much the same,remember the pension robbery!!!!!

  • 227.
  • At 04:49 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • DG wrote:

Not perfect, but tried to drag the UK forwards - but it's just not that interested...

  • 228.
  • At 04:49 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Muir wrote:

"And to think: it was all going swimmingly too. Oh, wait, wrong reality."

  • 229.
  • At 04:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jennyhaynes@mac.com wrote:

The peoples' liar. Never knowingly told the truth when a good spin would do instead.

  • 230.
  • At 04:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • chris wrote:

RIP
Reprehensible, Impeachable, Poodle

  • 231.
  • At 04:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:


24 hours to save the NHS, but never said which 24!

  • 232.
  • At 04:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bill Benites wrote:

One out... two to go...

  • 233.
  • At 04:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Au Revoir, not goodbye :-)

  • 234.
  • At 04:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • mythili wrote:

The Middle East:venni, vidi, distrussi.
Now retired, I can continue this work.

  • 235.
  • At 04:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Noel Tobin wrote:


"I simply say,
She was the people's Princess,I was the People's Prince".

  • 236.
  • At 04:52 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • john bailey wrote:

Are you sure you didn't mean epithets?

  • 237.
  • At 04:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Paul Cumiskey wrote:

Never has a PM been so succesful yet so castigated...a sum of turbulent times

  • 238.
  • At 04:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • A.Dewan wrote:

Blair--Blair--Blair

I am the boldest and most ardent believer of my lies.

  • 239.
  • At 04:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Wayne Morris wrote:

I lied at the beginning, betrayed my country and hate the lot of you.

  • 240.
  • At 04:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • john bailey wrote:

Are you sure you didn't mean epithets?

  • 241.
  • At 04:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • chris wrote:

I'm off to find Dr David Kelly and apologise

  • 242.
  • At 04:55 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

"Half a million dead Iraqis and i'm not in jail. Amazing."

  • 243.
  • At 04:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jenny Haynes wrote:

The peoples' liar. Never knowingly told the truth when a good spin would do instead.

  • 244.
  • At 05:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Anthony Joseph Duffy wrote:

Had our share
Of Tony Blair
The Middle East
Can have this beast.

  • 245.
  • At 05:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Robert Tan wrote:

Mr Blair has been a dynamic and responsible politician, good in rhetoric and foresight.

  • 246.
  • At 05:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alisdair Hamilton-Wilkes wrote:

So much promised, so much won, so little done!

  • 247.
  • At 05:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Olusegun Elegbeleye wrote:

"There are dangers in action but in inaction they are greater".Most charismatic since Churchill.

  • 248.
  • At 05:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Fred Jowett wrote:

There goes our Lord Bling who never did a foolish thing,yet never did a wise one.
If there was an alternative I am sure it would have been much worse. Six out of ten Tone.

  • 249.
  • At 05:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Marc wrote:

I promised so much but delivered almost nothing (apart from death and destruction.)

  • 250.
  • At 05:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kenneth Dennis wrote:

When I said I would be buried here, remember WMD and the forty-five minutes.

  • 251.
  • At 05:02 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • saleem wrote:

I am to Middle East Peace Process, what Bin Laden is to America

  • 252.
  • At 05:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • chris wrote:

That is that, the end.

  • 253.
  • At 05:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • saleem wrote:

I am to Middle East Peace Process, what Bin Laden is to America

  • 254.
  • At 05:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

OUR FAULT DEAR BRUTUS IS NOT IN OUR WARS BUT IN OURSELVES.

  • 255.
  • At 05:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Clive Richards wrote:

God help the Middle East

  • 256.
  • At 05:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Glen Barney wrote:

Great heart, great man, sacrificed his career and reputation for the good of the world.

  • 257.
  • At 05:05 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Morgan wrote:

Tony B() LIAR

  • 258.
  • At 05:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Maureen Davidson wrote:

The hand of history has finally, as always, delivered a good slap to the spinner.

  • 259.
  • At 05:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mohammed Ramzan wrote:

1997 - 2007
"Spin Doctor"

  • 260.
  • At 05:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Rodney Francis Webb wrote:

Goodbye Tony now you can go and clean Georges shoes instead of liking them !

  • 261.
  • At 05:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • saleem wrote:

I am to Middle East Peace Process, what Bin Laden is to America

  • 262.
  • At 05:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • de castro wrote:

10 ticks
10 days
10 weeks
10 months
10 years

IMPOSSIBLE ! but fact !

ADIOS mi amigo
ADIOS my "friend" !

  • 263.
  • At 05:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bunmi Fagbemi wrote:

Tony Blair
knew no fear
cos he was
pumped full of air
squandered all his graces
and with no reverse gear
there is no reason to think of
Blair's rear.

  • 264.
  • At 05:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Robin Tranter wrote:

He promised much but leaves a land of lost opportunities and greater divisions.

  • 265.
  • At 05:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • G.Day wrote:

Vanitas vanitatum

  • 266.
  • At 05:15 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • David Smith wrote:

We have all prospered under my leadership - well, I certainly have, anyway.

  • 267.
  • At 05:15 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Feliz Meringue wrote:

A man so dedicated to the cause of his people and country, despised by some but admired by most. The world has changed in our eyes and Tony has been a big part of that. Will be sorely missed.

  • 268.
  • At 05:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Howard wrote:

Final confirmation that Guardian epitaph writers have added nothing to knowledge or happiness.

  • 269.
  • At 05:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • kay wrote:

Caring heart good intent sadly misguided by US bully a jewish cause distruction of peace

  • 270.
  • At 05:17 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Your aspiration for peace for the good of our world.
Many thanks for changing the needs of Parliment and the house of Lords for the future.

  • 271.
  • At 05:18 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • ann senior wrote:

Labour modernizer, eclipsed by war in Iraq. Craves power and glory. Legacy lies as world peacemaker.

  • 272.
  • At 05:18 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • BJ Lawrence wrote:

Raided pensions (but not his), doubled council taxes and left a crime-ridden, anti-social mess.

  • 273.
  • At 05:20 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Eugene wrote:

The Party, The Country, The World. I Helped Destroy Them All.

  • 274.
  • At 05:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Joshua Knowles wrote:

A man guided by three British villains, Campbell, Mandelson and Blunkett, and one American.

  • 275.
  • At 05:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Elsie OLIVER wrote:

I paid for my honours in blood.

  • 276.
  • At 05:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • James G Georgiles wrote:

Blair was unfair!

  • 277.
  • At 05:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alison wrote:

Sorry was not a word in my dictionary.

  • 278.
  • At 05:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ruth Mayer wrote:

What is going on in the world when the man jointly responsible with President Bush for the highest slaughter of military and civilians in Iraq is appointed PEACE envoy in the Middle East?

How can a man who has failed totally and miserably to improve services in his own country, hope to succeed in this difficult area?

Talking the talk may not be enough.

  • 279.
  • At 05:24 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Alison wrote:

I didn't split the atom but I did split the country in half.

  • 280.
  • At 05:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Barry8 wrote:

Big grinning persona, great policies.
When failed "Buck stops here"
It didn't. He has.

  • 281.
  • At 05:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Elsie OLIVER wrote:

I paid for my honours in blood.

  • 282.
  • At 05:28 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • chris wrote:

His conviction and presentation lead us to war: rationality and freedom were among the casualties.

  • 283.
  • At 05:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • David Coleman wrote:

HIS PRIORTIES WERE DEVASTATION DEVASTATION DEVASTATION!

  • 284.
  • At 05:30 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Simon Phillips-Hughes wrote:

He united his party for victory, and divided his country in the name of freedom.

  • 285.
  • At 05:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Maximus Asante wrote:

Judge not, less ye be judged.
No man should be defined by one sinhgle Act!!!

or

A mans defining moment comes not from one Act but from his motives and his heart!!!

  • 286.
  • At 05:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Naijla wrote:

I want to say he was almost one of the best, Nobody can be perfect in this life, people try but never succeed. If he made a mistake he was trying to do his best. He has a gret personality, honest and friendly.

from now and so i hope he looks after middle east peace, because is easy to estimulate war if u are not inside the fire suffering and seeing your brothers and family die for nothing. Mr. Blair, i hope God bless you to find a peace to the middle east to touch peoples' with words and action.

  • 287.
  • At 05:34 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Lucy wrote:

Here lies New Britain's first love; billed as king of hearts but exposed as jester.

  • 288.
  • At 05:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Brian Stanbridge wrote:

Please forgive and forget the 600,000+
deaths I have on my conscience.

  • 289.
  • At 05:37 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Brian Nathan wrote:

Close, but no cigar! If only they had found WMDs and left sooner he would have been hailed as one of the great PMs.

  • 290.
  • At 05:38 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Barbara Kendall-Davies wrote:


Everything Midas touched turned to gold, Blair turned everything to ashes.

  • 291.
  • At 05:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Eddie Ward wrote:

Education is not Wisdom Mr Blair.

  • 292.
  • At 05:41 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

THE UNSPEAKABLY IGNOBLE IN PURSUIT OF THE DISTASTEFULLY "NOBLE"

  • 293.
  • At 05:41 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jac Phillimore wrote:

Can be activated and fired at the Middle East in 45 minutes.

  • 294.
  • At 05:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Joshua Knowles wrote:

A charismatic leader who thrice fooled the populous into believing he possessed a moral conscience.

  • 295.
  • At 05:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Eddie Ward wrote:

Education is not Wisdom Mr Blair.

  • 296.
  • At 05:43 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Brian Stanbridge wrote:

Please forgive and forget the 600,000+
deaths I have on my conscience.

  • 297.
  • At 05:43 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Flatroofer wrote:

Education is not Wisdom Mr Blair.

  • 298.
  • At 05:44 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Barry Rimell wrote:

He "did what he thought was right". It's just a pity that nobody else agreed.

  • 299.
  • At 05:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • J.Westerman wrote:

Unprecedented parliamentary ovation.
Cherie: I don't think I will miss you (media) – re character assassination.

  • 300.
  • At 05:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • steven wrote:

The best of intentions can sometimes yield the worst of results.

Life's like that.

  • 301.
  • At 05:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Julian Eades wrote:

The man of the people, burdened by Gordon, saddened by Saddam and eaten away by the long march of war in foreign lands.

  • 302.
  • At 05:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • raghu wrote:

Farewell, sweet prince! May angels purge your soul of blood!

  • 303.
  • At 05:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Gordon Henderson wrote:

He started off quite well
And although went to hell
We say "HE MEANT WELL!"

  • 304.
  • At 05:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ethan Allen wrote:

I Tony Blair am the Messiah. But you were too blind to see it.

  • 305.
  • At 05:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Chris Mumby wrote:

He had everything but threw it away by backing the most incompetent US President ever.

  • 306.
  • At 05:57 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Zickie Allgrove wrote:

Here I lie,
Oh I did try,
Mushroom clouds in the sky,
tis time for me to fly.

  • 307.
  • At 05:57 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • chris morrell wrote:


Well, i'm not so popular these days

Over to you Gordon, it's all yours
mate

  • 308.
  • At 06:02 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Hadfield wrote:

If you thought that was dreadful, just wait to see the mess I'm going to make in the Middle East

  • 309.
  • At 06:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Patrick Robinson wrote:

At the end were just sighs and groans. What did I do wrong?

  • 310.
  • At 06:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • J.Westerman wrote:

Unprecedented parliamentary ovation.
Cherie: I don't think I will miss you (media) – re character assassination.

  • 311.
  • At 06:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Keith O'Neill wrote:

I did it my way and now I've gone, it will get better

  • 312.
  • At 06:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kate Leafhead wrote:

In the Middle East, I've made a debacle. I'll now create peace again - abracadabra!

  • 313.
  • At 06:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jeff wrote:

Great vision, great heart, great talent. He will go down as one of the best.

  • 314.
  • At 06:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Eugene wrote:

You love your country and your country loves you.
you could not believe one day your beloved country will put you away from Irak.
We love you ya tony!!!!

  • 315.
  • At 06:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Simon Phillips-Hughes wrote:

He united his party for victory, and divided his country in the name of freedom.

  • 316.
  • At 06:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bill Benites wrote:

One out... two to go...

  • 317.
  • At 06:14 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Derek Phibes wrote:

War,
cronyism,
EU constitution through 'treaty',
corruption of educational standards,
cash for 'honours',
erosion of our border controls,
criminals freed,
the harmless jailed;

I gave all these to the British voters and still they kept electing me!

My final effort?
Here's Brown!!

  • 318.
  • At 06:15 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Adam Hugh wrote:

'Rest In Peace'? Should be 'Rest In the Social, Cultural, Economic Wasteland Once Fine Land'

  • 319.
  • At 06:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Day wrote:

THIS SPACE LICENSED FOR DANCING

  • 320.
  • At 06:18 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Harry wrote:

A decade of Blair has meant false dreams and despair and a country beyond repair

  • 321.
  • At 06:18 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Andrew Hall wrote:

Fourty five minutes is a long time in politics

  • 322.
  • At 06:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Colin Watts wrote:

Sod Iraq, the voters care about domestic issues! Theres three times the number of troops in Iraq on 'manoeuvres' of a weekend on a binge up in Bournemouth!

  • 323.
  • At 06:24 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Dillup wrote:

RIP Tony! We immigrants overrunning your land love the opportunity you blessed us Indians with!

  • 324.
  • At 06:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • jon wrote:

A man who believed in the political process more than the principles that underpin them.

  • 325.
  • At 06:26 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • austin njoku wrote:

I BLARED,BLURED AND BLUNDERED BUT MAY THE BRITISH AND THE WORLD FORGIVE ME.

  • 326.
  • At 06:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • CHARLENE MACKALL wrote:

YOU LET GEORGE BUSH MURDER YOU!!

  • 327.
  • At 06:27 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Beatrice wrote:

People allways like to complain, but never have the guts to thank when there is a job well done. I and so many others thank you Tony for all you have done for England. And as for Mr. Gordon keep your eyes wide, use your wisdom and do not expect any glory.

  • 328.
  • At 06:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kiki wrote:

He came, he saw, he conned us.

  • 329.
  • At 06:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tony Burleton wrote:

I wonder if Tony Blair knows the history of Count Bernadotte who was appointed UN peace advisor to the Middle East in 1948 and was assassinated in Jerusalem in September of that year?

  • 330.
  • At 06:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • steve coelho wrote:

Tony Blair,

Has made a lot of progress, since he has been Prime Minister, even though the NHS has taken some stick recently. I have had friends that have been in hospital during the the Conservative years and now recently the improvement is immense.

However the war in Iraq was a gross political error and he should have resigned over this issue alone.

  • 331.
  • At 06:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Russell Miller wrote:

'Ita erat quando hic adveni' - It was that way when I got here!

  • 332.
  • At 06:44 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Maurice - Northumberland wrote:

"I did what Adolf Could not Do"
"Turn the Indigenous Population into a mere Community inside Great Britain"

"I did for the UK what no one else could do - destroy it"
Thanks Tony may you R.I.Purgatory!

I don't want anyone to think for one minute I don' like the man, take 10 years!


  • 333.
  • At 06:44 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

TONY BLAIR

Lies here and not there any more

  • 334.
  • At 06:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Eric Le Boënnec wrote:

If education is about learning,
do what I said not what I did.

  • 335.
  • At 06:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Keith Douglas wrote:

FOOL AND KNAVE
A wasted ten year opportunity
Destructive with an illegal war
A threat to civil liberties

  • 336.
  • At 06:48 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Billy McKenzie wrote:

Epitaph - He tried, he became trying, and finally he should have been tried.

  • 337.
  • At 06:48 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ian Haritakis wrote:

I SINCERELY BELIEVED I WAS THE PEOPLE'S PREMIER - SORRY IF THE MESSAGE DID NOT COME ACROSS.

  • 338.
  • At 06:49 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Philip Bramford wrote:

Never knowingly understooped

  • 339.
  • At 06:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

How many minutes did you say it was before Iran was capable of using weapons of mass destruction

  • 340.
  • At 06:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Colin wrote:

Took nothing, gave everything, not afraid to make decisions. No wonder he was not popular.

  • 341.
  • At 07:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bruce Anderson wrote:

TONY BLAIR SHOWED GREAT POLITICAL COURAGE JOINING THE USA FIGHTING TERRORISM AND SUPPORTING FREEDOM WORLD-WIDE.

  • 342.
  • At 07:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ian Haritakis wrote:

He sincerely thought he could deceive the ignorant and the educated with spin by playing the People's Premier.

  • 343.
  • At 07:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • QUANTUM REX wrote:

Here lies a mediocre copy of Bill Clinton.

  • 344.
  • At 07:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Patricia Gerrie wrote:

Here lies Tony Blair who will not rest in peace. Look what thought did!

  • 345.
  • At 07:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • D Macpherson wrote:

Did absolute power corrupt him absolutely or was he always just a corrupt kinda guy?

  • 346.
  • At 07:10 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tom Balogh wrote:

In the long parliamentary history of this country, we've never had such a successful Labour government. It's such a terrible shame/waste, it turned out to be a Tory government in disguise.
British socialism R.I.P

  • 347.
  • At 07:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Kirwe Matthias Yelkopba wrote:

Tony Blair has proved to the World that he is a Leader with a FOCUS and Determination. Good Luck in Your Life outside 10 Dawning Street.

  • 348.
  • At 07:28 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Fred Jowett wrote:

In the Land of the Blind the squint eyed man was King.The ungrateful whingers have never had it so good. Give thanks O Lord!

  • 349.
  • At 07:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

How many minutes did you say it was before Iran was capable of using weapons of mass destruction

  • 350.
  • At 07:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

Look at his wrinkles,
Look at his hair
Whatever happened
To young Tony Blair

  • 351.
  • At 07:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Royden Harrison wrote:

I was only the clown, but I was in charge of the circus

  • 352.
  • At 07:39 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

I did what I thought was right because my wife told me it was so

  • 353.
  • At 07:45 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

Why Bristol? Why not? everyone has to start somewhere to get on the property ladder

  • 354.
  • At 07:47 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Colin W Newman wrote:

He came, he saw, he conquered Iraq

  • 355.
  • At 07:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Rita Elliott wrote:

Talented, efficient and popular, Tony Blair lost it all on the way to Baghdad

  • 356.
  • At 07:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • john paul hadfield wrote:

At least he left of his own accord, unlike maggie getting the boot.

  • 357.
  • At 07:55 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • christopher noble wrote:

Will be remembered for New labour, Spin, Iraq War, Northern Ireland, House of Lords and Hunting.

  • 358.
  • At 07:59 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve Savi wrote:

10 years, 45 minutes.
Charisma, lies.
Legacy, larceny.
Iraq, a hard place.
A man, lost.

  • 359.
  • At 08:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

Look at his wrinkles,
Look at his hair
Whatever happened
To young Tony Blair

  • 360.
  • At 08:04 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Wells wrote:

Today 27/6/2007 should be recognised as THANKSGIVING DAY and celebrated every year to come.......

  • 361.
  • At 08:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Gerard Price wrote:

No Weapons of Mass Destruction but plenty of Words of Mass Deception

  • 362.
  • At 08:08 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve Savi wrote:

Here lies a dichotomy; a man with two legacies, a country disabused, a broken dream

  • 363.
  • At 08:11 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Claudio Frasca-Polara wrote:

When monuments are pulled down, remember to save the pedestals. They usually turn useful again.

  • 364.
  • At 08:17 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Morris wrote:

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Forty Five Minutes will Wreck Iraq for Forty Five Years

  • 365.
  • At 08:23 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Stuart Shields wrote:

Employed by the Great British Public, sacked by Gordon Brown!

  • 366.
  • At 08:25 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me. Cash for honours.

  • 367.
  • At 08:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ayo Onatola wrote:

Tony Blair brought new life, new style of service in leadership and won the heart of majority of British in spite of all antagonisms he had.

  • 368.
  • At 08:33 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • BBuck wrote:

not only did he sell himself to the U.S. now he tninks he can sell himself to the middle east - joker

  • 369.
  • At 08:35 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Adam Rose wrote:

Now I am gone, you will appreciate what I did for the people of Britain.

  • 370.
  • At 08:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Howard wrote:

The man who promised so much and delivered so little except to America and Bush.

  • 371.
  • At 08:44 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Dr Sibani Roy wrote:

It was a wise decision to step down rather than thrown out by own party members.

  • 372.
  • At 08:46 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • nadia wrote:

Bush.Blair.Bombs. One down two to go.

  • 373.
  • At 08:48 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Danny McCafferty wrote:

It wisnae me.A big boy done it and ran away.

  • 374.
  • At 08:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • tom mc guigan wrote:

Our prayers are with you'

  • 375.
  • At 09:00 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Phil wrote:

He really had to stand down:
1) What would he do for the few years before the election
2) Sitting on the backbenches isn't really his style
3) A new start with a new leader, rather like Major taking over from thatcher.

  • 376.
  • At 09:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Steve Gordon wrote:

Ten years, too long, for one astutely. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • 377.
  • At 09:06 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Anne McNamee wrote:

One day I will stand before my god and he will have to accept that I was right to sacrifice British and Iraqi children in the name of oil. Meanwhile, let me finish the job I started.

  • 378.
  • At 09:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Put new people everywhere: Lords, spin doctors, advisors, immigants. Only Bush really fell for it.

  • 379.
  • At 09:09 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • donBee wrote:

Heavy is the head that wears the crown. Don't listen to Bush.

  • 380.
  • At 09:12 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

He came, he saw, he conquered; he left albeit scarred, unbeaten and unbowed.

  • 381.
  • At 09:13 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • tristan coumbe wrote:

I surrendered to and advanced bigotries while undermining equity, believing I was attempting the opposite.

  • 382.
  • At 09:13 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bill Murray wrote:

Well, at least he helped Northern Ireland....

  • 383.
  • At 09:17 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Icame, I saw, I thought "maybe I can do better.Ihave.

  • 384.
  • At 09:19 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter wrote:

I came, I saw, I did not comprehend, nor needed to; I just destroyed.

  • 385.
  • At 09:21 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Terence Sheehan wrote:

Win or Lose I Done my Best

  • 386.
  • At 09:31 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Leila wrote:

I think the NHS reforms under New Labour have worked wonders for the patients. It seems that the most complaints are coming from the clinicians. I wonder why.
The NHS continues to be the best in the world. I hope the reforms continue

  • 387.
  • At 09:40 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Neil Edwards wrote:

He came, he spun, he konkered.

  • 388.
  • At 09:50 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Jill Shepherd wrote:

Here lies Blair. Brown's no different - beware.

  • 389.
  • At 09:52 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • William wrote:

Tone's Bones are lying here

  • 390.
  • At 09:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Neil Edwards wrote:

He came, he spun, he conkered.

  • 391.
  • At 09:56 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Sölvi Eysteinsson wrote:

Tony Blair
Epitaph

Congenial on the outside – tough on the inside
Loved by common people – hated by snobs

  • 392.
  • At 09:57 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • DAVID TURNER wrote:

A consummate practioner of perfidiousness whose achievements Niccolo Machiavelli would have approved and roundly applauded.

  • 393.
  • At 09:58 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tracey wrote:

If you seek my epitaph look around you

  • 394.
  • At 10:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Peter D wrote:

I grinned, I spinned, I winned in Iraq and here I lie forever

  • 395.
  • At 10:01 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • William wrote:

Politics is defined as the art of compromise.

Thank you, Tony, for compromising everything.

  • 396.
  • At 10:16 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Tracey wrote:

The defence rests

  • 397.
  • At 10:22 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Leandra wrote:

The title of the music behind the tv news stories re Blair/Brown ? This is called "Dead Already", by Thoms Newman, from the movie, 'American Beauty'. - !

  • 398.
  • At 10:32 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Pamela Seidel wrote:

I would like Gordon Brown to be a labour prime minister and not a Tory in disguise as Blair was. I also hope he will renounce this stupid notion of having a "special relationship" with America, it causes us nothing but trouble.

  • 399.
  • At 10:34 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • N. Ali Khan wrote:

Ex-British PM cum American Foreign Secretary, Presently ME Special Envoy - JOBS FOR THE BOYS!

  • 400.
  • At 10:34 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • James wrote:

Gone but not forgiven

  • 401.
  • At 10:37 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Maan Saad wrote:

Here lies a man, misguided, corrupted during his reign,
by the White House
bloody stain.

  • 402.
  • At 10:39 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • John Fawke wrote:

The Conservatives said 'the NHS is safe in our hands' not me

  • 403.
  • At 10:51 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Ann D. Hammond wrote:

Tony Blair was the best PM England has had since Churchill. Wish he were an American leader

  • 404.
  • At 11:03 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Bill wrote:

A loyal friend to the United States and the rest of the free world.

  • 405.
  • At 11:19 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mark wrote:

Veni Vidi Vici

  • 406.
  • At 11:22 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mark Thomas wrote:

We all live and die.

  • 407.
  • At 11:36 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Mark Rowlands wrote:

A good man whose instincts were always sound and who did his best. That is as much as we can expect from any prime minister.

  • 408.
  • At 11:49 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • stephane wrote:

Epitaph? how about:

He argued black was white while accusing us of cynicism that lying piece of .....

  • 409.
  • At 11:53 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • churdchoo ariyasriwatana wrote:

The world will remember him as the villain who make the war in Iraq possible and start the killing field and terror all over again.

  • 410.
  • At 11:54 PM on 27 Jun 2007,
  • Robin Gill wrote:

A lousy Prime Minister and a lousy human being. 100,000 dead for what?

  • 411.
  • At 12:00 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Sean Lomas wrote:

He came, he changed, he altered, he amended, he destroyed, he deconstructed thankfully he left.

  • 412.
  • At 12:17 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Robert Hearne wrote:

Whatever you say about Blair you say about yourselves. He led the society to which you belong. Let it be known that he did this with his best intentions.
He is a dignified person and we should be, as I am, truely honoured to have had such a passionate idealist as the guide of Britain. I will sadly miss this man, his zeal, his irrperessible spirit, his dogged determination, relentless determination, but above all, his inexaustible optimism and idealism.

  • 413.
  • At 12:19 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Rafiq Hajat wrote:

Political spinmeister par extraordinaire, who wreaked havoc upon millions with deception and misguided allegiances. RIP

  • 414.
  • At 12:42 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Doug Stanley wrote:

Politics like the Titanic will end no differently to that of the lost journey,and having had the conservative ship stormed by new labour all wearing the same uniform, what we as a country are about to witness is simply a change in captin. with possibly the only benifit for this crew of being able to watch it all on ctv and blame the "Terrorists". Politics, it's full of Tics.

  • 415.
  • At 12:44 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Nigel Perry wrote:

The first President of the United Kingdom: gone to Europe via the Middle East.

  • 416.
  • At 12:49 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • eee aarrrgh donkey wrote:

"45 minutes"

  • 417.
  • At 01:05 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Doug Stanley wrote:

Man cannot discover new oceans untill he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
Again the Titannic springs to mind. Bless.

  • 418.
  • At 01:23 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Chris wrote:

It was all about the dollar NOT oil!

  • 419.
  • At 01:45 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Blair's Epitaph:

Brilliant legal mind.Yet failed to understand his first duty as PM was to the British people who put him in office and not to any American President.

  • 420.
  • At 02:55 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • SPOTTERRON wrote:

Blair and Bush; together they saved the world from terrorism.......

  • 421.
  • At 04:00 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Sean McAdam wrote:

Muppet, Muppet, Muppet

  • 422.
  • At 04:23 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Johnny Loh wrote:

Bush's good and obedient puppy.

  • 423.
  • At 04:25 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Vo Van Hung wrote:

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Blair had the best of intentions!

  • 424.
  • At 05:20 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • David Greenhalgh wrote:

...larger than a poodle said his American master upon his leaving....perhaps a dachshund?

  • 425.
  • At 06:20 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Spectrumlink wrote:

HE SHAMELESSLY TOOK ALL THE IDEALS OF SOCIALISM TO THE MARKET AND SOLD THEM OFF

  • 426.
  • At 06:34 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Reginald Martin wrote:

The destructor of a United Kingdom

  • 427.
  • At 06:36 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Ten Years hard for Labour with no remission. Goodbye and no regrets.

  • 428.
  • At 06:42 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Billy Hirst wrote:

What God giveth, God taketh,
thank God,

  • 429.
  • At 07:37 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • timothy wrote:

Good leader messed up by Bush who made you behave like a USA state governor.

  • 430.
  • At 08:00 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • john field wrote:

blair's epitaph needs no words written anywhere. To see his legacy all that needs to be shown are the police detaining your reporter under the blair terrorism laws to stop him asking brown any questions,showing that all independence has been removed from them and they are free to used for political purposes.

  • 431.
  • At 08:47 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Christian Ford wrote:

Has anyone seen my flatheaded screwdriver?

  • 432.
  • At 08:59 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • sticky teflon wrote:

When i was good,i was very very good but when i was bad it was him..

  • 433.
  • At 09:07 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Sindy wrote:

After Cromwell, Lloyd George, Thatcher...finally a British leader who will go down in history for his contribution to peace in Northern Ireland.

  • 434.
  • At 09:13 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

The man of British hope who became the man of International Disappointment

  • 435.
  • At 09:30 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

THEY DIED THAT I MIGHT LIVE

  • 436.
  • At 09:33 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • david austin wrote:

you brought me fame fortune and everything that goes with it....cherie won't miss you.

  • 437.
  • At 09:47 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • B Kieran wrote:

Cast a cold eye
on life or death
Blair pass by
Iraq the lie

  • 438.
  • At 10:05 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Epitaph :

Tony Blair's heart was in the right place occasionally , succeeded sometimes , failures too many .

  • 439.
  • At 10:09 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Tim Rooke wrote:

He said he was a pretty straight kind of guy; but then he swerved and ended up in a Bush.

  • 440.
  • At 10:12 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Marko Nguet wrote:

Blair! Oyeeeeei! World Peace! Oyeeeeei!

You are out of power but the memory.

May God bless you!

  • 441.
  • At 10:14 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • kayode AINA wrote:

His heart ruled his head leaving him out of the heart of his nation

  • 442.
  • At 10:21 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • David O'Brien wrote:

Tony who?

  • 443.
  • At 10:56 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me. Cash for honours.

  • 444.
  • At 11:02 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • George Shepherd wrote:

Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me. Cash for honours.

  • 445.
  • At 11:05 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Nick Gardner wrote:

May we never see his like again

  • 446.
  • At 11:09 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Michael D. Amaeshike wrote:

There lies a leader, misunderstood like many other great leaders but made a difference.

Michae D A

  • 447.
  • At 11:22 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Marcus Pearl wrote:

A misunderstood man of conviction, haunted by the benefit of hindsight, shadowing an immense leader.

  • 448.
  • At 11:27 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • adrian wrote:

Northern Ireland 1 Iraq 0

  • 449.
  • At 11:58 AM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

"I came, I conquered, and I did not want to go!"

  • 450.
  • At 12:02 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • RobSlack wrote:

Resurrected as an envoy. I bet the Pope I could beat 3 days.

  • 451.
  • At 12:22 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Tony Bellows wrote:

IF GORDON UNDOES MY LEGACY, I WILL SPIN IN MY GRAVE

  • 452.
  • At 12:26 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • H.K.Seshadri wrote:

A brilliant political career marred by a blunder in Iraq toeing the line of Bush.

  • 453.
  • At 12:29 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

Blair's Epitaph

True to himself whether right or wrong, losing the support he could have received.---Barbara Norwich

  • 454.
  • At 12:37 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • David Williams wrote:

The Greatest Prime Minister that ever lived

  • 455.
  • At 01:07 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • jeffettridge wrote:

How many more times???????
BUSH LOOKS LONELY
BLAIR LOOKS SAD
BUT REALLY THEY'RE CRAZY
QUITE RAVING MAD
ONCE WE WERE PRETTY WITH FIRE IN OUR EYES
NOW WE JUST SIT PULLING WINGS OFF THE FLIES
HEY! BUSH AND BLAIR LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE
THE WAR'S NEARLY OVER-BUT YOU HAVEN'T WON
AS YOU CASUALLY WASH IRAQ DOWN THE DRAIN
IT'S ME AND NOT YOU WHO IS FEELING THE PAIN
SO I'LL SAY GOODBYE TO THE ACTORS INSANE

  • 456.
  • At 01:18 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • jeffettridge wrote:

IT SEEMS TO ME YOU LOST THE WHOLE DAMN GAME SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE.

  • 457.
  • At 01:39 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • chris n wrote:

Hmmm, 15 words, difficult to fit a limerick into that...

There was a PM called Tony
Who turned out to be incredibly phoney.
He promised a lot
But, like it or not,
All he delivered was baloney!

  • 458.
  • At 01:40 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • John Ette wrote:

Ulster sorted, economy strong, invaded Iraq, dished out a gong.

  • 459.
  • At 02:54 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • S MAJ wrote:

Tony Who?

  • 460.
  • At 03:52 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • mike andoh wrote:

Innocent when unexamined. Dangerously tied to many strings;crafty at extricating himself. Nice person though!

  • 461.
  • At 05:06 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Thomas Murphy wrote:

I stole the Great from Great Britian and the Honour from Honourable Members

  • 462.
  • At 05:33 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • d.elliott wrote:

This Bilderberg lackey has done more long term damage to Britain than two world wars.

  • 463.
  • At 05:47 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • nadia wrote:

Here lies Blair... finally.
Not alone in death.
600,000+ flank him. May he get what he gave them... hell.

  • 464.
  • At 07:18 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Rajan wrote:

joined a friend to prime a land for Brown to sow the seeds

  • 465.
  • At 07:57 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • David Allen wrote:

TOUGH ON THE ELDERLY VICTIMS OF WAR CRIME AND MRSA. PS Gordon is a moron!

  • 466.
  • At 08:15 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

  • 467.
  • At 08:49 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • wrote:

HE SUCCEEDED IN SELF DECEPTION WRAPPED IN THE DECEPTION OF OTHERS FOR "THEIR OWN GOOD".

  • 468.
  • At 09:13 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Rajan wrote:

Bl- Who joined hands with Bu to till the land of Afghanistan for Br to sow the seeds!

  • 469.
  • At 09:18 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Geraint wrote:

let me down then broke my heart then filled me with shame, finally only hate

  • 470.
  • At 09:36 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Alex Oswald wrote:

I told you I was ill!

  • 471.
  • At 09:43 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Jon Wilson wrote:

Sorry about Cherie

  • 472.
  • At 09:52 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Glenton Downs wrote:

Iraq around the clock

  • 473.
  • At 01:49 AM on 29 Jun 2007,
  • Ian Ludford wrote:

Tony Blair:

Britian's greatest Prime Minister 1997 - 2002.

  • 474.
  • At 09:41 AM on 29 Jun 2007,
  • Michael Harris wrote:

IN VICTORY DISHONOUR,
IN DEFEAT SUBMISSION,
IN PRINCIPLE FLEXIBLE,
IN RESOLUTION FLUID,
IN UTTERANCES LYING.

  • 475.
  • At 11:40 AM on 29 Jun 2007,
  • Melmoth wrote:

On the whole, I'd rather be in Budleigh Salterton

  • 476.
  • At 05:39 PM on 29 Jun 2007,
  • geffrey wrote:

iwillliketo thank Blair for the outstanding leadership which he exhibited to the whole world during his tenure as Britain Prime Minister.Not forgeting his consistence character of doing things without bactracking,he vowed to support US invation of Iraque til job was done and also he strong stance on war on terror .Finally iwill miss Blair and Bush with good leadership which show the capture of the world feared terrorists.

  • 477.
  • At 10:10 AM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • Ted Mueller wrote:

A Brit and his whit
Saved the Ship.
Still he lies,
deep in this pit.

  • 478.
  • At 12:33 PM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • Andrei Skvarsky wrote:

Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, I am free at last - from Jeremy Paxman's questions.

  • 479.
  • At 12:52 PM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • SUDIPTO BOSE wrote:

a bit more discretion,respecting the citizen,s concerns and wishes rather than the inner voice, a bit less empty personal pride,would have made my premiership years golden. i had it all but lost it over this iraq adventure.

  • 480.
  • At 02:56 PM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • Douglas Kelley wrote:

Better Here Than Photographed With George W. Bush Again

  • 481.
  • At 03:28 PM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • campbell wrote:

Appointed tehered goat at Bush's Al quieda tiger shoot. RIP

  • 482.
  • At 04:23 PM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • G Armstrong wrote:

To quote.Never in the field of the spoken word has one been so glib.

  • 483.
  • At 09:17 PM on 30 Jun 2007,
  • L kumara wrote:

He is an excellent prime minister.
I miss him. Best wishes to him & His family.

  • 484.
  • At 12:16 AM on 01 Jul 2007,
  • lionel swanzy boateng wrote:

If anyone should miss Tony Blair then i think it has to be Africans.God bless you Tony Blair.

  • 485.
  • At 09:18 AM on 01 Jul 2007,
  • BUD ELLIS wrote:

BLAIR ANOTHER WORD FOR TREASON

  • 486.
  • At 09:12 PM on 01 Jul 2007,
  • ovosi joseph wrote:

Tony Blair,British Premier and Patriot,a quintessential leader and Statesman,orator,husband and father.

  • 487.
  • At 06:58 AM on 02 Jul 2007,
  • Bob-Gad wrote:

He's been a man of who stands his word and i love him for that.

  • 488.
  • At 03:22 PM on 02 Jul 2007,
  • Sean Naylor wrote:

Woof, woof, woof!
Here lies George Bush's poodle!

  • 489.
  • At 07:08 AM on 07 Jul 2007,
  • Ibrahim Abdul-aziz muhammed wrote:

If you go through what jeffettridge wrote in same website at 455 about Bush and Blair,this is along range patrol the road was already blocked and the bypasser no way available from the left or right If you force you collide with a knot and you will get damage.

  • 490.
  • At 08:15 AM on 07 Jul 2007,
  • John Fahy wrote:

Out of touch, out of control, out of time and thankfully, out of office.

  • 491.
  • At 10:15 AM on 07 Jul 2007,
  • Lewis McLeod wrote:


Sadly the public even british intelligencia never realised behind Blair's silver tonged spin, he was politically deceitful. He was and still is a believer in globalised private enterprise economy, hocking discreetly the NHS to private long term investors.
As a peace envoy to middle-east he accepts the Bush american plan for this century which means Jerusalem as a Zionist tourist haven, Palestine as a cleaned up backyard. G.Brown is philosophically hooked to the same Atlantist ambitions. Each generation does what it wants regardless. But China and India and emergent South America should make a whole new social outlook to keep this plan in check.

  • 492.
  • At 08:57 PM on 07 Jul 2007,
  • sayitstraight wrote:

Here lies Tony Blair,
We all thought he’d act with flair,
Iraq had no WMD he was aware
Yet did he with Bush did dare
to set Iraq a flare.
Now liar Tony is known to all
As the youngest PM who took a nasty fall
for having acted without a care
killing thousands in a war unfair.

  • 493.
  • At 06:04 PM on 08 Jul 2007,
  • udom Dominic wrote:

I CAME ,SAW AND TRYED TO CONQUER ALL, UNFORTUNATELY,I WILL NOT HORRIEDLY FORGET MUGABE.

  • 494.
  • At 04:30 AM on 15 Jul 2007,
  • Robin Morch wrote:

He could and should have done a lot better.

  • 495.
  • At 08:24 AM on 17 Jul 2007,
  • Emily wrote:

Things can only get better. Now.

  • 496.
  • At 06:47 AM on 19 Sep 2007,
  • wrote:

Keeper of US dollars in UK at all cost

  • 497.
  • At 11:38 PM on 19 Sep 2007,
  • wrote:

Did he contribute? You Judge!

  • 498.
  • At 06:47 AM on 21 Sep 2007,
  • wrote:

It's so simple. Now Sarkozy is taking over Blair's mantle. And France is not in financial turmoil whereas Gordon is in trouble because of his implicit anti-Iraq gesture.

  • 499.
  • At 07:10 AM on 29 Oct 2007,
  • wrote:

Hee lies Tony Blair Buried under a Bush.

  • 500.
  • At 10:04 AM on 30 Nov 2007,
  • Bob wrote:

Here lies a loser

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