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| Poll: Half of Britons Want Blair to Quit |
| 2004-02-08 |
| And almost as accurate as Howard Dean’s 2003 polls. Just over half of Britons think Prime Minister Tony Blair should resign and 54 percent believe he lied to the nation about the threat from Iraq, a new poll showed Saturday. The survey highlights the political damage the Iraq war and its aftermath have done to Blair, President Bush’s staunchest ally overseas. Fifty-one percent of those questioned by polling firm NOP for the anti-war Independent newspaper said they agreed that "it is now time for Tony Blair to resign." Thirty-five percent disagreed. Your negatives accumulate, your positives never do. The survey also found 54 percent believed Blair exaggerated the prewar threat from Iraq, while 31 percent did not. Sixty-eight percent of those questioned in The 81% said they wouldn’t believe any investigation that failed to demonstrate the existence of the Loch Ness monster. Last week, opposition Conservative Party leader Michael Howard called for Blair to resign. Howard’s call came after Blair said he had been unaware that the dossier’s claim that Iraq could deploy unconventional weapons on 45 minutes’ notice referred to battlefield munitions, and not long-range missiles. The Conservatives appeared to be in a strong position, with the poll showing 36 percent supported them, compared to 35 percent who backed Blair’s Labour Party. That’ll change when people see the Tories are kinda clueless right now. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Blair needs to open up some coal mines. Get the working class to work and let the government do it's job. The libs over there are the same as over here....drooling half wits who believe in Eden. |
| Posted by: dataman1 2004-2-8 10:29:39 PM |
#3 Just over half of Britons think Prime Minister Tony Blair should resignWhich half would that be? The half who can vote, or the half who are Islamazoid freak nutjobs? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-2-8 1:14:52 PM |
| #2 And my special scientifically accurate survey proves that 100% of all newspaper articles are biased. Labour and the Conservatives are statistically equal whereas normally the party in power lags the opposition by a substantial margin mid-term in the UK. Yawn! No news here! Just spin! And note my earlier post about the Left going into spin overdrive because of the spectacular intelligence and diplomatic successes over the last month or so. Backed up with the threat of an armoured division touring through your capital city. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-2-8 6:01:17 AM |
| #1 In my unofficial but guaranteed mathematically accurate poll, half of Britons are below average, intellectually, too. Might be a bit of overlap, there... Blair's prolly a mixed bag, like every other politician on the planet. But I'll defer to JonShep, TonyUK, and bulldog (where's he been?) for the specifics. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-8 1:55:40 AM |