Bye Bye Blair

Complaining that his impending exit was a little tumultuous owing to the icky fact that people started leaving the party and/or calling for his head, Tony Blair weakly offered:

“I would have preferred to do this in my own way”

Well, last time you did things in your own way, it was called the Iraq war. Now you’re gone. So I guess the lesson there is that you should be careful what you ask for.

But he wasn’t done:

“We can’t treat the public as irrelevant bystanders in a subject as important as who is their prime minister,” Blair said. “So we should just bear that in mind in the way we conduct ourselves in the time to come.”

Same lesson applies there, I’d say. Give the people what they want, or they won’t be your people anymore. He rolled the dice of history and came up snakes.

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