It’s about nine years overdue but beggars can't be choosers.

Well, I'm not familiar with all his policies but I always used to enjoy listening to him speak whether I agreed with him or not...to his credit, he was better spoken then some out there...not mentioning any names, lol...so long, Tony.

He’s a self serving idiot who has presided over the most corrupt British government in living history. Constantly using a presidential style leadership that has both flaunted the law of the land and eroded democracy, perhaps irreparably, his ‘New’ Labour policy has washed aside the principles of his parties founders in favour of lining the pockets of those in power at the expense of the people who put him there.
This is the guy who tells us we have to all work harder and longer and save more for our retirement as there isn’t enough money left in the countries pension funds after his government ‘borrowed’ huge chunks of cash from them to fund two wars they were ill prepared for as well as scrapping income related pensions whilst at the same time retiring himself at least a decade early and awarding himself an annual pension six times his yearly ministerial salary - for life. Yes, a real man of the people.

rant over :-)

Well then, good riddance, Tony !!!

"scrapping income related pensions whilst at the same time retiring himself at least a decade early and awarding himself an annual pension six times his yearly ministerial salary - for life. Yes, a real man of the people. "

perhaps he can find a second wind as the CEO of a large American corporation, as he's already begun to imitate them.

i thought he'd been practising the vice president gig instead of the CEO for quite some time now :-)

FINALLY!

He's been saying he was going to for about a year now. I shall have a little party *opens the booze cabinet*

Now, who wants to get drunk with me? Yayayayay!

do we see a pattern forming here? ;-)

I can imagine readers in other countries thinking 'what the hell, I thought he was a really nice guy?' politicians are good at that :-)

~raises glass of scotch~

Congrats dude!!

He and little Johnny Howard must be twins.. ;)

In fact, there's a whole bunch of clones of him out there...we've got several of his ilk in this country too.

wow...welcome to america and the hell that was once reserved for only us. pension? what is this pension you speak of? work longer and save more...aren't 2 jobs enough to occupy 24 hours, and what is this saving thing...in america you are either rich or in debt to your eyeballs. is there any chance tony would like to take his pal dubya with him...i'll throw in dick and condi too...what a deal!!! gawd i cannot wait until 2008...or for dubya and dick to go out huntin' together!! i am soooo jealous of y'all across the pond right now...here's hoping the next guy/gal will do much better for you.

doubtful - it's going to be Gordon Brown a.k.a. Dick Turpin. The pension is the thing that you contribute to all your working life only to have it stolen, sorry borrowed, from you without your consent.

unless the Scots vote for full independence in which case he won't be allowed to be PM - which would be the funniest thing ever. hopefully the queen will grow a new pair and dissolve parliament to force an election instead.

"hopefully the queen will grow a new pair"

Roflcopter.