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   Michelle Malkin

   May 10, 2007

   Blair to stand down on June 27

   “I did what I thought was right.” “Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.” The official 10 Downing Street website has retrospectives. Here’s the BBC coverage of his announcement. PJM round-up….

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   Pajamas Media

   May 10, 2007

   Tony Blair To Stand Down on June 27

   [New items on top] Farewell and Adieu! (Rick Moran @ Right Wing Nut House) Bows Out Craving Approval: Iain Dale didn’t like the speech. What has Tony ever done to the Brits? Hint: way too much, and that’s not a…

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   Bruce G Charlton

   May 10, 2007

   Quite – as regards domestic policy. It could be argued that without TB things would have been even worse? But he has totally failed to reform the public sector, which is the Achilles Heel of British life.
   TB wasted several years doing little more than spin, and could never make up for that lost opportunity, although he did try very hard to do so.
   But – I think Blair’s ‘legacy’ will be his strong stance against terrorism internationally. Especially the new strategy of foreign policy, led by the US and UK, which is to spread liberal democracy internationally – this is of huge importance, potentially. The biggest issue of our era, perhaps. Well done Tony!
   On the home front his biggest intervention may have been just a few months ago – in reversing multi-culturalism and asserting an ideal of integration in a context of high levels of immigration. I approve – and it think it will be of great benefit for many years.

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   Outside The Beltway | OTB

   May 10, 2007

   Tony Blair Leaving Office June 27

   British Prime Minister Tony Blair is stepping down first as Labour Party leader and then as premier.
   After eleven years, few of his countrymen are sad to see him go. Then again, that was the case for Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, too. L…

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5. 

   Tel-Chai Nation

   May 10, 2007

   Tony Blair resigns

   A decade after he was first elected to office, Blair has now announced his resignation. I wish I could credit him more than I’d like to, but unfortunately, there’s a few little things to his record that simply cannot be ignored, such as how just a fe…

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   StuartA

   May 10, 2007

   Especially the new strategy of foreign policy, led by the US and UK, which is to spread liberal democracy internationally – this is of huge importance, potentially. The biggest issue of our era, perhaps. Well done Tony!
   Yeah, thanks for that resounding success.

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   Bob B

   May 10, 2007

   “Yeah, thanks for that resounding success.”
   Absolutely. The electorate in America showed how deeply impressed they were by the success at the Mid-term Elections last November.

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8. 

   Joel

   May 12, 2007

   “”Yeah, thanks for that resounding success.”
   Absolutely. The electorate in America showed how deeply impressed they were by the success at the Mid-term Elections last November.”
   http://red-state-blue.blogs.com/my_weblog/files/takinghold1.htm
   Can This Insurgency be Saved?
   by Ellsworth Toohey
   The threat is real
   Beyond the repetitious and narrow coverage of bombings and death, there is a trend that is clear enough to anyone who bothers to look for it or similar – significant – signs. To wit — the native Sunni element of the Iraqi Insurgency is cracking and unravelling at once —
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