Okay, no offense but how does that get Brits off the same charge that Americans are stuck with?
No offense taken since I didn't say anything to suggest it did
[1].
I merely pointed out my opinion that no matter what happened in Iraq New Labour was going to win the last General Election, just the same as no matter how badly Margaret Thatcher screwed up she essentially couldn't lose her second and third General Elections because Labour was an unelectable mess.
Just as an aside:
Isn't it true that if the people rose up and demanded change they could have gotten Blair out and someone else in... even if it was simply as a new choice for PM from within his party?
Actually no.
This has been much in the news this last week or so with the never-ending 'when will Tony step down for Gordon' story. The Tories have a straightforward mechanism for replacing a leader pretty much any time - which is how Mrs. T bit the dust. The Labour Party rules, on the other hand, make it more or less impossible for the Party to jetison a leader midstream.
[1]Or at least I didn't mean to. Apologies if my language wasn't precise enough.
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