Banquo's Ghost
09-06-2006, 16:18
I'm interested in the Backroom's view of the apparently growing clamour for Prime Minister Blair's resignation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5319328.stm). To this outsider, it looks uncannily like the last days of the Thatcher regime.
Is he right to hang on? Or is he beset by Lilliputians?
Personally, I thought he made an incredible mistake when he announced he wouldn't serve the full term. His time was always going to be scarred by endless questions as is happening now.
There are many arguments for term limits, and the unseemly behaviour of the MPs as well as Mr Blair's apparent inability to name a date (which looks like desperation to hang onto power despite what he said) bolster this view.
It brought to mind the famous poem:
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Is he right to hang on? Or is he beset by Lilliputians?
Personally, I thought he made an incredible mistake when he announced he wouldn't serve the full term. His time was always going to be scarred by endless questions as is happening now.
There are many arguments for term limits, and the unseemly behaviour of the MPs as well as Mr Blair's apparent inability to name a date (which looks like desperation to hang onto power despite what he said) bolster this view.
It brought to mind the famous poem:
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.