Yo, Blair!: Tony Blair's Disastrous Premiership |
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Pages: 154 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1842752065
Pub: Politico's Publishing Ltd
Pub date: 2007-02-12
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9524
Reader Reviews:
I agree (0/9 people found this helpful)
I think my husband's book was very good. You should all read it.
P.S. another great one is 'Pet Heaven'.
I was going to call it 'Pet a Porter, but the name was taken.
Blair, the antichrist. (3/6 people found this helpful)
This great book says it all about the disastrous 10 years of the worst P M this country has ever had. Blair, the man who ripped the heart and soul out of a once great Nation. After reading this, you will want to take a contract out on him.
Timely? (4/13 people found this helpful)
Timely, or published in a rush? It seems to me that this book was published in a rush in order to capitalise on Blair's retirement (although it had been foreseen for so long). Not only is the text somewhat unclear in places, but I gave up counting the 'typos', (maybe even more than the 'Guardian') that I suspect that there was no time to proof-read the manuscript before publication.
Outrage against the regime (15/18 people found this helpful)
Just a couple of weeks after Prime Minister Blair has departed office, it is amazing how quickly he is forgotten. This little book will remind you of the wasted years, the squandering of a huge parliamentary majority on self-agrandising policies that will make the Blair legacy a running sore for years to come.
This book will appeal to many people, not only those who are interested in politics, for the failures of the Blair years effect us all, not least the on-going situation in Iraq. Wheatcroft reminds us of how much we have all been humiliated by the Blair government, not least by our subservience to the USA, which has been an emabarrasment even from the time of Blair's first visit to President Bush.
The benefit of reading a book like this, is it reminds the reader of so many failures and embarrassments that are fading into the mists of time - the Ecclestone affair, the Millenium Dome, the Mandleson mini-scandals, Carole Caplin and so many others. Wheatcroft effectively links these together by providing a running narrative showing the underlying current of egotism and spin that so marked the Blair government.
The book is written with the passion of a writer who feels deeply about his topic and races along from topic to topic. It is an enjoyable read in the sense that it holds the attention. It is also deeply depressing to see the last ten years summarised so compactly in a book stuffed full of outrage about what we have had to endure from the likes of Campbell, Prescott, Reid and all those other members of the Blair Regime.
Tragicomic (5/7 people found this helpful)
If, like me, you view life as tragicomic, then read Geoffrey Wheatcroft's superb polemic and weep.
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