"It is perfectly clear from the comment above that you do not live in the U.K."
Well no I don't, and believe me, my Irish Grandmother rolls in her grave every time I mention Tony. You folks need some help over there, that is clear, but you'll have to prevail on the Tories to improve before you get any, I'm afraid. I think Blair has done some really stupid things that I totally disagree with, but he did move Labor right, and I'm sure many thought that would never be done. And he is completely staunch in the WOT which is far more that you can say about our own "dims".
You guys need to get your guns back, I'd make that priority #1, and that's from a second amendment supporter who will never, ever, own a gun.
This is just not true. New Labour may have abandoned old-fashioned socialist economics, but culturally and constitutionally they and Blair are way to the left of any previous Labour government. No previous Labour prime minister would have dreamed of doing any of the revolutionary things Blair has done such as expelling the hereditary peers from the House of Lords, banning foxhunting, or advocating replacing the pound with a common European currency.
Worst of all, while Blair personally claims to support the monarchy, anti-royalism is far more prevalent in New Labour than it was in the old days, when patriotic socialists (yes, they did exist) had no problem with the existence of the Crown. I'll take a socialist loyal to his Queen over a capitalist with no regard for his country's heritage and traditions any day.
I suppose you are free to take my opinion with a grain of salt since I am a monarchist (who probably should have been born in pre-20th-century Europe) and an anti-Iraq-war paleoconservative on US politics (I don't like Bush either and will be staying home on November 2). But face it: Blair is no conservative of any kind; in fact he is the most un-conservative leader Britain has had since Oliver Cromwell.