No Time Left: Says Skipper

Considering but contradicting Mr Taylor's piece in this week's Observer Skipper reckons there's: "No Time Left for Blair to leave the Stage to Applause". And also that the above picture is the perfect political snap.

The comments so far go like this:
Parburypolitica said: There is some woolly thinking going on. Blair sorting out the middle east in 6 months, when the problems have been going on for decades never mind the fact that the UK is hardly the most influential player in the game. Get real. It's such a shame that they always cling on too long even the brilliant ones.

Skipper responded:
And Blair has been brilliant, I have to allow. He's like an outstanding sportsman who just somehow can't score the runs or can't deliver those key passes to score the goals.

Your host responded: He's scored lots of runs and laid on plenty of goals, but let's face it - often for the wrong side(s). If Blair had been under the direction of the party at large and done all his tricks FOR THE PEOPLE then we'd be looking at a great hero and he probably wouldn't have to go. He's a class act. He could have been looking to 25 years like some Swedish PM/Leader instead of his miserable (but record breaking) 10.

There have been three main myths :
1. It had to be Blair in 97
2. It had to be that sold out Tory programme
3. It had to continue like that in 01 and 05

Other leaders could have achieved three or four wins given the state of the nation in 79 to 97 - with deliberate unselfishness/equality as the message.

PS: Blair could still make a difference on the Middle East - perhaps by denouncing the USA support for the right-most zionist views (while supporting the idea of a just and peaceful Israel) in his parting words.