tony blair speeches

[dvtimes]

they sound like sermans to me.

he should have been a vicar.

[tdf]

I liked his leaving speach...esp the bit about us being the greateast country and we all secretly know and think it. That was good.

[globalguy]

I liked his leaving speach...esp the bit about us being the greateast country and we all secretly know and think it. That was good.

Yes, I thought the end bit was excellent - rousing stuff! And it got me thinking : he is right!

"I have been very lucky and very blessed. This country is a blessed nation. The British are special, the world knows it, in our innermost thoughts, we know it. This is the greatest nation on Earth. It has been an honour to serve it."

[Geezer]

"I have been very lucky and very blessed. This country is a blessed nation. The British are special, the world knows it, in our innermost thoughts, we know it. This is the greatest nation on Earth. It has been an honour to serve it."

What a complete and utter load of bollocks

"The British are special", yeah special needs

[tdf]

The speach was good, we all know it was meaningless.

[JT]

The best speech that any Labour leader has given, was when Neil Kinnock took on the loonie left militants in his own party and the unions.

It was a huge speech and meant a big change for the Labour party and this country. I still like watching it on TV.

By far the best speech since the war (Excluding St. Thatcher) and it meant something.

Here is the most powerful section of the speech. It is at about the halfway point of the video. Sorry you have to sit through shit to see it, but I couldnt find it on its own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3OscH1qK0

I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - a Labour council - hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers.

[Merlin]

The old adage has it that British prime ministers are either like vicars or bookmakers. Tony's of the dog collar variety.