Britain's Blair to quit in 2008: Kinnock

[deadparrot]

LONDON (AFP) - Neil Kinnock, a former leader of British Prime Minister
Tony Blair's governing Labour Party, said he thought Blair would stand down in 2008.

Former European commissioner Kinnock said he thought the prime minister would stand down a year before the next general election to allow his successor "time to work in".

Blair has said he will not seek to lead Labour into a fourth straight term in office since coming to power in 1997.

Kinnock, who led Labour in opposition from 1983 to 1992, reckoned that the country would see Blair quit office around May 2008.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050922/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticsblair

[mr blur]

1. Can't be too soon for me.

Neil Kinnock, though, there was the last true Labour leader.

[mrfrapp]

2. John Smith? n/t

[Taxloss]

3. John Smith was, IMHO, far superior to Kinnock

And a great loss to British politics.

[Briar]

5. and now he is a Bliar apologist

How he has come down in the world.

[Nihil]

6. Be fair ...

... he's been living it up with his missus at the taxpayer's expense
for the last decade so what makes you think he's better than a Blairite?

[RogueTrooper]

4. That long?

oy.