Bliar is a Jesus botherer

[Tachikaze]

Undemocratic as it may sound...
It's not a statesman's job to do the popular thing after you're elected into your position. You do what you think is right. And you'll face your judgement after a couple of years when the voters will turn again you. Apparently Blair didn't do badly enough, since he's still in office...

Making every decision dependent on the whim of the people will just hamstring the government and make effective governance impossible.

It depends on whether you see your politicians as leaders or representatives.

I have seen times when the politicans were acting for the wrong reasons, like to satisfy the shareholders of a small number of powerful oil and construction companies. In that case, I wish they had followed public opinion instead.

Other times, the politician is better educated and wiser than the public and should do what knowledge, experience, humantity, environmental concerns, and morality decide is best.

Generally, a politician is better able to make important political decisions. But the wild card is their ethics or morality. On occasion, they are simply unintelligent.

What little I know of Blair, he seems bright. But his choice to support the Bush Regime was due to moral or ethical problems. In that case, I wish he had been a representative.