What’s it going to take for Blair to get the message? 2 million voters demonstrating on the streets of London? A million signatures on a petition that he resign? A poll telling him the whole country wants him gone? What?
Most Britons want Blair to resign now -poll
Sun Feb 4, 2007 8:10 AM GMT
Email This Article | Print This Article | RSSLONDON (Reuters) – Most Britons think Prime Minister Tony Blair should step down now, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday after a week of damaging headlines for the premier over an investigation into political funding.
Blair, who plans to resign later this year after more than a decade in power, was questioned by police for a second time last month about the case which has also seen some of his closest aides arrested.
Blair said in a speech to activists from his Labour Party on Saturday that he did not underestimate the scale of the problems facing his government. But he has said the cash-for-peerages probe will not force him to bring forward his departure date.
The ICM poll published in the Sunday Express found 56 percent of those polled believed Blair should resign now. Even among those who termed themselves as Labour voters, 43 percent said Blair should leave his post immediately.
No, he’s going to hang on for grim death, fingernails gripping the doorjamb of No 10 all the way as he’s dragged out by a posse of stout police constables, accompanied by hordes of baying journos and Cherie scuttling furtively away behind the scrum with the silver in a recyclable Tesco carrier bag .
Meanwhile Blair’s arselicker-in-chief and very own Comical Ali, Philip Gould, will still be valiantly proclaiming to all and sundry how remarkable Blair is and what integrity he’s got and that we should look to history and think how very lucky we are to have such a man as our leader, no really, it’s true.
