Blair was certainly true to himself...as a deceitful, two-faced, manipulator.
He has taken the country into a disastrous and totally unnecessary war which is set to go on indefinitely. British lads, and Iraqis are dying because he meekly trotted along behind Bush in his quest for oil.
He has taken billions of pounds from us ordinary tax payers to "improve the NHS". Instead, much of it has been wasted on bureacracy and ill-conceived new technology projects - the prime example is the mind-boggling £12.4 billion wasted on an IT project that isn't wanted and doesn't work. This money could have paid for 26,000 doctors for ten years or 65,000 nurses for ten years or every hospital built since 1997 three times over or 200 years of currently "too expensive" Alzheimer's drugs. But no, it's been spent on "Tony's project".
He has supinely given away a large part of our EU rebate without securing anything in return - like the much needed reform of the ruinously costly Common Agricultural Policy, for instance.
In 1997 he promised to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime". Despite the frequent attempts by his spin doctors to massage the figures, does anyone really feel safer?
...but apart from all that, yes, he's not bad.
