Blair loses popular lead for first time: poll

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A poll in Britain revealed on Friday that British Prime Minister Tony Blairis less popular than his main rival for the first time in 12 years

Blair also suffered more bad news on the electoral front, with results from by-elections for two vacant parliamentary seats yielding a poor showing for his Labour Party.

Pollsters YouGov, in a survey commissioned by the Daily Telegraph newspaper, found 30 percent of Britons thought new Conservative Party leader David Cameron would make the best prime minister, against 28 percent who preferred Blair.

The Telegraph said it was the first time any of five successive Conservative leaders had been preferred to Blair since Blair took the helm of the Labour party in 1994 as opposition leader under Conservative Prime Minister John Major.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060630/wl_nm/britain_politics_dc

[AX10]

1. Look at this article.

It seems that Tony "Benito" Blair is no believer in freedom.

http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/060619roco03

[Vidar]

2. A Faux-Liberal or a Conservative?

[tenshi816]

3. I've never trusted that little weasel,

even before he became Prime Minister. When most of the UK was in an orgy of celebration after Labour's huge victory in 1997, I was uneasy and couldn't put my finger on why, exactly. I was unable to shake the feeling that Tony Blair was (and remains) false and that one day he would let the people of Britain down.

It does not make me happy that my fears were justified.

[sweetheart]

4. When from cameron, what have we to expect?

Torys are just neocon corporatists waiting to privatize and asset
strip just like bush. What's most disconcerting is that blair is
driving, for his wars, the common sense center voter towards the
radical corporatists. I fear this will turn for the worse if he
does not catch the drift.

[tenshi816]

5. No, it's none of it good, is it?

It's probably just as well I can't vote in the UK because I'm disillusioned with the whole lot of them.

[sweetheart]

8. his "liberalism (classic)" concerns me

He's young, and a lot of big corporate war is standing behind
him hiding in his shadow. So whilst he hiking around notting
hill on his bicycle, i wonder what kind of man he'll be in a
nuclear armaments situation. So far, he's shown to step
hard corporatist in every accident. He worries me, like bush
before he was elected, for all the "horror" of clinton ! :-)
a front-man for war, death and corporatist erosion of civil
institutions. Blair has been amazingly good, and i still like
the man, much more than having torys in office. But that's what
its become, Blair or the tories, and what about labour?

[atreides1]

6. Labor hasn't helped much recently, have they

"I fear this will turn for the worse if he
does not catch the drift."

If Blair hasn't caught the drift by now, then he never will. The man is trying to pad his nest before he leaves office. It would seem that Blair cares little for the will of the people of Great
Britain, just like his hero Bush cares little for the will of the American people.

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7. By-election blows for Blair and Cameron

Just posted to the Independent
Tony Blair and David Cameron were both dealt by-election blows in heartland seats today.
(snip)
A YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph today declares Mr Cameron the public's preferred prime minister over either Mr Blair or his heir-apparent, Chancellor Gordon Brown.

But it was Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell who was given a boost this morning as his candidate came 633 votes short of taking Bromley and Chislehurst from the Tories' Bob Neill, after the Conservatives' vote share slumped 11.11%.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1150100.ece

[still_one]

9. good blair, you deserve it for aligning yourself with an imbecile

like bush, especially since you should have known better