From the BBC:
Tony Blair has criticised people who hold parties to "celebrate" the deaths of former Prime Ministers, saying they were in "pretty poor taste". The former Labour prime minister urged critics of him and his Conservative predecessors to "show some respect".
The comments come after parties took place in several cities to mark the death of a former Prime Minister who was even more divisive than Blair, although Blair himself seems to be in reasonably good health and the likelihood is that people will have more or less forgotten about him by the time he pegs it. Except for the bit about invading several countries for no particular reason.
A Labour source also said that leader Ed Miliband "categorically" condemned such behaviour, although the chances of him ever being a late former Prime Minister are a remote as the chances of him becoming Prime Minister in the first place.
Lady Thatcher is the number one hate figure for many on the left, having privatised several state-run industries and been involved in long run-ins with trade unions, most famously during the miners' strike of 1984-5. Rather ironically, Tony Blair is number two.
What have we wrought in the UK?
10 hours ago
4 comments:
Not long 'til Benn, Healey & Shirley Williams die. Following the lead from the Left - let's get this party started.....
HCN, true, but they aren't really hate figures, are they? Nobody was too fussed when Michael Foot died.
Excellent. That is 'fine art'
The reason Blair kept invading places was Brown would n't let him near domestic policy and there was nothing else for him to do.
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