The rise and fall of Tony Blair

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2 жыл бұрын

Over one million people have signed a petition against the knighthood of former prime minister Tony Blair, reviving the debate surrounding his place in history.
How did the UK’s longest-serving Labour prime minister become so unpopular?
#tonyblair #iraqwar #iraq #georgebush #middleeast #waronterror
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@angus7278 2 жыл бұрын

"America has no truer friend than Great Britain" Taken as a direct and pointed insult from Bush to Canada which had refused to join in the Iraq fiasco.

@kama3422 2 жыл бұрын

Which makes Canada a moral and upright nation in this instance compared to Bush and Blair governments which were both genocidal and racist governments.

@littlenan3576 Жыл бұрын

We had a stupid PM Blair who wanted fame etc. He should never have got involved in Iraq. Canada had more foresight than to get involved in such an awful war.

@joelwatson3999 Жыл бұрын

Except when Bush said that, Iraq was still 1 1/2 years away soooo…

@dragandragovic8989 4 ай бұрын

@@joelwatson3999love how un-ironicly are saying it was supposed to happen 1 1/2 years before it actually happen like it was 'pre-planned' 😂

@kieranfrancke790 Ай бұрын

Also was taken as an insult to France as well.

@sandilemfeka4658 6 ай бұрын

If I die and see this man, then I am definitely in hell.

@mehdiabkar5521 4 ай бұрын

😂😂

@thatweatherman4411 Ай бұрын

You’ll see him and bush chained together

@laxeystu8096 Жыл бұрын

Iraq was only a contributor to Blairs fall The war was his first real moment of crisis, but it did command support amongst the opposition and in the country as well, and he won another general election in 2005 He was still seen as a 'winner' after this and was replaced more because of the Labour party's unhappiness with him (partly Iraq, but other things as well), to be replaced by Brown, who was also supportive on Iraq

@hschsc1300 3 ай бұрын

By 2006, Labour's backbenchers were sick of Blair. Iraq was the straw that broke the camel's back. Tuition fees, privatization of hospitals, and deteriorating relations with trade unions were issues already held against him, which was increasingly worse as time went on. Blair's big sell to his party was, despite his more right-ward politics, he was 'electable'. However, that was more than wearing off. His popularity tanked post-2003. He won only 35% of the vote in 2005, miraculously coming with a decent majority in 2005. He was consistently 10pts behind a weak Tory Party thereafter. The backbenchers and party as a whole eventually threw him out, and replaced with Gordon Brown who was at one point considered the most popular politician in the country and more in touch with the Labour base.

@DIVIDEDNATION Ай бұрын

Low voter turnout benefited Blair after his landslide victory

@fjordhellas4077 Жыл бұрын

How is it that Blair, George W Bush, Dick Cheney and Ronald Rumsfeld haven’t been indicted for their war crimes in Iraq ? I don’t get it.

@PeachesandCream225 11 ай бұрын

the powerful dont face consequences sadly

@lw1zfog 4 ай бұрын

globalist bank$ter owned

@xxteresaxx9227 Ай бұрын

because 'ta-dah' they weren't war criminals! They had a legitimate reason to enter Iraq with/without WMD

@masterally6025 2 жыл бұрын

"you lied about the weapon mass of distraction". "You lied about Iraq" "You lied'

@laxeystu8096 Жыл бұрын

He had the security services advising him that Saddam had retained WMD, so where is the lie?

@ravd8082 Жыл бұрын

and immigration he thought 10.000's would arrive every year, you got that one wrong tony

@johnnotrealname8168 Жыл бұрын

He did not think 10,000 would arrive.

@johnnotrealname8168 Жыл бұрын

The intelligence was shady and the intelligence services told him that the sources were not the best however he portrayed it to the public as definitive. I believe he thought it was real but he lied by omitting the relevant dubiousness of the data.

@davidcox9674 Жыл бұрын

@@laxeystu8096 bush had already alerted him to the situation and responded by saying that he would support him wherever it took them. So yes, he lied about wmd.

@NasirAli-zn3hr 2 жыл бұрын

Millions of people died

@WelshHistories 8 ай бұрын

Successive Labour leaders not defending his record played the biggest part in his downfall.

@littlenan3576 Жыл бұрын

There were many of us in the UK who despised his actions. The problems he left us with are enormous. Never mind, he became so rich and famous.

@MrBrownstick 2 жыл бұрын

War criminal

@sgritheall163 Жыл бұрын

If Putin is a war criminal, then so is Blair. But he got a knighthood for his war. Hypocrisy?

@dOnDee831 Жыл бұрын

100%

@eastbow6053 2 ай бұрын

putin is not flooding russia with child r..pists

@clemalford9768 6 ай бұрын

The most opportunist politician ever. And a warmonger to boot.

@Genocide2024 Жыл бұрын

Just imagine a so called intelligent successful politician that lied his way into war killing countless innocent people. Greed at its highest.

@greenguy358 Жыл бұрын

or maybe he was just following in the footsteps of the Americans which caused the tories to use this as fuel to bring down labour

@clemalford9768 6 ай бұрын

His name is Blair.

@masterally6025 2 жыл бұрын

"I believe he was a monster" -monster Tony Blair

@ravd8082 Жыл бұрын

innocent soldiers lost thier lives

@masterally6025 Жыл бұрын

@@ravd8082 tell me again what did those "innocent soldiers" do at the "Abu ghraib prison" Oh my bad. You don't know what that is.. they don't tell u

@meyerswhyte Жыл бұрын

Thats one less monster

@Dennis-nc3vw Жыл бұрын

6 out 7 of Iraqi civilians were killed by "insurgents, militia, and terrorists" according to Iraq Body Count's John Sloboda, the people Blair sent soldiers their to kill and capture and you were rooting for. No doubt they were largely motivated to commit so much senseless carnage because they knew you would blame their Western enemies for their atrocities, so every murder they committed became a propaganda victory.

@ishtiaqkarjikar6877 Жыл бұрын

Biggest criminals of all time but until today ICC Can't see?

@kieranfrancke790 Ай бұрын

The US doesn’t recognize the ICC because of this! I don’t know about the UK. But the US legally can’t be touched

@Whopper20 Ай бұрын

@@kieranfrancke790they will invade the hauge If their politican is tried by icc

@ethanp22 Жыл бұрын

You make it sound like he resigned because of Iraq in 2007. Although unpopular he did win the 2005 general election with a majority

@laxeystu8096 Жыл бұрын

This video is more 'Blair and Iraq' than Blair more generally

@montopeloto Жыл бұрын

A war criminal, an embarrassment to England and on top of that he walks free and protected.

@masterally6025 2 жыл бұрын

"you lied about the connection to the 9/11"

@laxeystu8096 Жыл бұрын

Blair did not make that connection

@hamid.khajehpour 7 ай бұрын

Another War Criminal Walking Free and soon to Become a Lord too. 😮😢

@TS-dr2gc 2 жыл бұрын

Ultimate fall will be in front of God.

@NnNn-yr7mu 2 ай бұрын

TS hrs in double trouble because the Pope told him not to go in to Iraq

@i--hate--life 9 ай бұрын

He was so puffy❤

@chrisgibson7591 11 ай бұрын

I've just went to try and watch tony blair institute for change, i've refused to listen to it because the comments are disabled.

@clemalford9768 6 ай бұрын

Blair is currently in competition with his son (the one arrested for being drunk and disorderly years back) for who can make the most money🎉 currently the son is in the lead with £385,000,000.!!!!

@kriskeeling6243 Жыл бұрын

This guy is despised in the uk

@Robc--jd6yh Ай бұрын

By some not by most

@philipelwell4214 16 күн бұрын

But by me, definitely.

@davecanly7535 10 ай бұрын

Everything on Blair now talking his crap.... The coments are always turned off just shows how much his hated

@Zoro007 6 ай бұрын

I'd love to see his portrait in the attic.......must be horrendous... 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@NasirAli-zn3hr 2 жыл бұрын

War crimes

@dkki201 Жыл бұрын

wef gangster and war criminal

@LukeRiver-in5xx Жыл бұрын

War Criminal

@user-zo7kb7tg3s Жыл бұрын

Will he go to jail for Iraq? No, justice is not for British corrupt politicians

@mehmet.albyrk 13 күн бұрын

Great summary of an age of war and collapse

@lw1zfog 4 ай бұрын

‘Miranda’, Bow St Magistrates Court 1983, ‘importunity’

@rolandrothwell4840 11 ай бұрын

Blair the biggest political charleton. He was a pink Tory. He happily lied about weapons of mass destruction.

@matthewrider5906 11 ай бұрын

That's a shame. How does a good social democrat become pro-war like that??? Damned shame, that.

@jamiegray6931 8 ай бұрын

He was an internationalist wanting the word of the international community to be above all else. Saddam was a risk to that world order, and escalating to a ground invasion wasn't too far a ste form the air campaign that had been waged against Iraq since 1998.

@makamanb 21 күн бұрын

Blair: 😐 Blair without Iraq: 🗿

@NasirAli-zn3hr 2 жыл бұрын

Men women children innocent lives

@milosniffer5293 Жыл бұрын

Lol shut up You don't care, you're just virtue signaling

@AyoAYO-cm6hb Жыл бұрын

Yeah but equally that could’ve been the U.K. mate, when war wages you have to take a side and protect your own. Not be a beta, sit back and let yourself get r**ped

@humanwhodoesstuffindeed 6 ай бұрын

@@AyoAYO-cm6hb iraqis weren't flying here to rape people

@NnNn-yr7mu 2 ай бұрын

@@AyoAYO-cm6hbAya there was more chance of you being struck by lightening ten times in one hour than any threat to the UK from Iraq's WMD.They did not exist....

@hml1757 Ай бұрын

What fall? This man is a business man. He is doing big money, like barroso the ex boss of UE, now an employee

@nathanielwhite8769 Ай бұрын

And our military, and particularly the Army has never recovered from Blair’s Premiership, in which the echos of Iraq and Afghanistan still haunt it to this day, and will probably do so for decades to come!😞

@tenzinnatedaiz6685 10 ай бұрын

Tony Butcher 😂😂😂😂

@jeyhunbunyatov7627 11 ай бұрын

i have always admired mr. Blair, until he screwed up and he screwed up by going into the war with US to Iraq.... we still don't understand what we had been doing there on our own with US...

@margaretmorgan3693 Жыл бұрын

I would like to see Tony Blair at the Haigh. Also anyone else who leads our country or any other country the same. There have been far too many wars throughout the years.

@animekid2979 Жыл бұрын

The Iraq war ended so long ago, it's really irrelevant.

@tayetrotman Жыл бұрын

I don’t think any PM who leads us to war should face charges. Blair, sure, but some wars are just necessary to fight.

@stevefowler3398 7 ай бұрын

HAGUE.

@moseszainal4119 9 күн бұрын

1:31 is that keir starmer?

@Sam77-sp1ut 2 ай бұрын

❤

@frowningscyth Жыл бұрын

He will be back. I will see the notifications for responses under this comment when that happens.

@philipelwell4214 16 күн бұрын

Please.....God........No.

@sammadongorere884 5 ай бұрын

That man is the reason zimbabwe is like this

@eastbow6053 2 ай бұрын

only Zimbabwe? add a few countries and almost all of europe

@stuarthowarth2972 11 ай бұрын

A TRULY EVIL BEING

@philipelwell4214 16 күн бұрын

Fact. For SO many egregious policies.

@philipelwell4214 16 күн бұрын

I felt constantly terrorized inside by this UTTER CRETTIN.

@colinwishbone4437 Ай бұрын

Problem is this obnoxious still a stain on uk politics and however far he falls its not far enough

@vivekbharwad8727 Ай бұрын

Apart from his international policies, Tony Blair was a genius in governing the UK internally

@xxteresaxx9227 Ай бұрын

In total agreement, alas we haven't seen a better PM since

@redkop510 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@einsam_aber_frei 24 күн бұрын

How? By introducing waves of immigration from the Middle East?

@kieranfrancke790 Ай бұрын

Blair is the US equivalent of LBJ except LBJ had a lot more soldiers dead! Blair and Iraq LBJ had Vietnam. They both had great domestic ideas and achievements but the wars they entered into ruined them. Remember both sides of the politics norm and abroad. Another thing about the UK in the Middle East is they helped us so much with the taliban and al qaeda in the beginning. Just couldn’t catch up with bin Laden for 10 years and we Americans complain about it all the time. Same with bush but everything he did

@glynjones5280 Жыл бұрын

Tony the war mongering tory

@johnnotrealname8168 Жыл бұрын

I should note that Iraq succeeded eventually. It is a relatively free independent Republic with a Democratic system.

@christianbolisca1493 5 ай бұрын

Even though Iraq was a ba’athist totalitarian genocidal dictatorship, that after the wars became an Iranian puppet state.

@johnnotrealname8168 5 ай бұрын

@@christianbolisca1493 Not really. They still host America and inform them of stuff.

@DandadaDandadaDandadaDan 18 күн бұрын

It is crucial to understand that: If Iraq and others had not been invaded, millions of Middle Easterners would not have become immigrants and would not have been forced to seek refuge in European countries.

@xxteresaxx9227 Ай бұрын

He didn't lie

@kiwinz8392 11 ай бұрын

Cottaging - Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (Tony Blair, former PM of the UK) (too old to reply) Jacob Von Hogflume 11 years ago Permalink 'He was charged and appeared in court at Bow Street Magistrates Court for importunity in a public toilet with another male. He tried to get sexual favour from the other man; little did he know that the toilet was being watched by police. Blair was fined £500, and walked away with nobody knowing who he really was as he used his middle names to cover who he was. Charles Lynton is the name used, and his friends in court got him off with a fine, because he is one of them.'

@hml1757 Ай бұрын

Like barroso now an employee in goldman sachs. If you want to be sucessfull you must throw away your shame. Like this Blair. All the gangsters know it...

@tenzinnatedaiz6685 10 ай бұрын

Tony devil like butcher on iraq 😂😂😂😂

@kieranfrancke790 Ай бұрын

@duncandes1 Жыл бұрын

War criminal 😡

@ianhawdon3680 11 ай бұрын

Your joking surely

@user-ht9jw5mo4s Ай бұрын

Poor old Tony the multi millionaire.

@IGLSaddam Жыл бұрын

Correct the title: the Rise and Fall of an Evil

@philipelwell4214 16 күн бұрын

The Rise and Fall of a sick psychotic, detestable dangerous very absurd and repugnantly intolerable prickend.

@jonathanselwyn4572 4 ай бұрын

Not to mention his government were partly to blame for the 2008 financial crisis

@willbentley8856 2 ай бұрын

lol

@ellisonsmith2526 Ай бұрын

How is American and RBS dodgy mortgage dealings = Labour governments fault?

@Matac0010 3 ай бұрын

Tony Blair…MORE LIKE TONY D.LIAR

@NnNn-yr7mu 2 ай бұрын

Marta more like Tony dollar....

@user-ob4wo9po2y Жыл бұрын

Very good leader and a great guest. Best PM Idiots criticise him for Iraq towards the end (which was George Bush’ fault), but forget what he did with the Troubles in Northern Ireland at the beginning.

@XLENDIBAY1 2 ай бұрын

user- know him by the company he keeps ......

@musanyathi2298 Жыл бұрын

He was one of the last great dignified PMs. His legacy was undone Bush.

@XLENDIBAY1 9 ай бұрын

Dignified B Liar I think they are the words your searching for ?

@ruwandikwella7508 Жыл бұрын

How great , Russia China and India never supported Iraq war..

@martinjenkins6467 10 ай бұрын

Those scumbags always protect The evil countries.

@XLENDIBAY1 2 ай бұрын

ruwand neither did Germany or France .

@moosaalraisi6447 7 ай бұрын

this anemia of God

@NasirAli-zn3hr 2 жыл бұрын

Is the world really at peace after all this. Guys do some research and wake up. I don’t think so

@craigtomkinson2150 10 ай бұрын

Should have been in the Hague for War Crimes

@Dennis-nc3vw 10 ай бұрын

Blair should come to the US. Unlike the British, we aren't cowards who throw our leaders under the bus to appease those who hate our country.

@martinjenkins6467 10 ай бұрын

Gutless wonders are sick. The ones They should attack is animals like Putin and the leaders of China,Iran And north Korea. They are the real Threat to world peace. The West needs To toughen up to these scumbags.

@amateurchef9992 8 ай бұрын

We British hate the murder of innocent iraq civilians and hate bush and Blair because of it. Blair should go to the US, all the other murdering clowns seem to live there

@ezekielbenisrael1962 7 ай бұрын

Do you mean your stolen country.

@humanwhodoesstuffindeed 6 ай бұрын

unlike the us, we don't murder people for fake reasons.

@NnNn-yr7mu 2 ай бұрын

Dennis oh yes....so where are the statues to Bush Rumsfeld Cheney ???

@SH-jg5zq 11 ай бұрын

Blair the war criminal

@user-lk9lp3br3g 9 ай бұрын

Blair had Britain Booming..not like caeron and other torries putting it all in their own pocket

@proshantoshen 2 ай бұрын

Tony Blair was a great leader of Britain.

@MJB20233 10 ай бұрын

I just love the post 911 revisionism. Especially by people who were not alive at the time. I have as do many of my generation a pre and post 911 life. It’s so sad. Those so ready to criticise afterwards do not understand the cultural shift. I worked for an American bank when the towers fell, phones lines with colleagues dropped dead. We left work to watch the horror unfold on 24 hour news. Our friends, brothers and sisters left home to defend the horror of the new terror without which we would still be looking over our shoulder. Life is messy but Blair is one of the most impressive political statesman’s the U.K. will ever see.

@klopt772 10 ай бұрын

You are just naive banker in that case.

@XLENDIBAY1 2 ай бұрын

MJB yes you did well to try and root out MBL then inexplicably pivoted towards Iraq and Blair followed your folly like a sheep. 9/11 does NOT give you the right to slaughter innocent people on a whim.

@NnNn-yr7mu 2 ай бұрын

M excuse my French but WTF has this to do with Iraq and 600,,000 dead ??

@XLENDIBAY1 Ай бұрын

@@klopt772 or just a wanker !