Tony Blair

What he did for the world - with a belief that might was right: "TONY Blair came to the premiership with no direct experience of foreign policy. He leaves the job knowing it will be for his foreign policies that history will primarily remember him: the Prime Minister who took Britain to war in Iraq."

I don't know that he will be remembered. I have said it before on this blog. What has happened to Tony Blair is very sad indeed. When he first took office , everyone was excited and jubilant. Here was a man with vision, energy and a capacity to resolve long standing conflict. He set about his business in a very impressive way. He began and sustained a number of initiatives which helped Britain adopt a positive, stronger stance.This was a leader. He seemed as though he had a good capacity to forge long term stability both within the country and with its neighbours. Then came some very odd behaviour and he started to use his power to ends other than that of stabilising himself and leading his country. He didn't appear to put his country first and started to create divisions and lost the support he had so ably attained. People viewed him differently because what he said and did just didn't seem to match up. He has paid for that because he could have been great , not because he is great, but because he was able to build teams and create co operation where none had existed. He was a mediator and he was someone who could pour oil on troubled waters. He appears to have lost that knack and with it the faith that people had in him.