Well, it was only a matter of time...The Poodle is about to get his butt handed to him after the Brits get done smacking it. Seems that the Brits are a little less willing to believe that their leaders are infalliable. Blair is apparently refusing to take the fact that there might have been a little boo-boo committed in the name of the British people in and around the area of Ancient Mesopotamia.
A Defiant Tony Blair will this week refuse to apologise for his government’s most controversial policies - including the Iraq war - and accuse unions and dissident MPs of blocking progress towards a fairer society.
The embattled Prime Minister will face down his growing army of critics at the Labour conference in Bournemouth with a bold declaration that he has no regrets.
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A new crop of opinion polls last night cast further gloom over the Labour conference.
They showed that Labour’s popularity rating has slumped to its lowest levels since Blair became Labour leader in 1994, with one poll putting the party three points behind the Tories.
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A Guardian survey of 108 of the 409 Labour MPs found that almost a quarter wanted him to go, and that more than two-thirds were strongly opposed to tuition fees.
A Mori poll suggested that half the nation wanted Blair to step down and an ICM poll for the News of the World suggested 64% of voters no longer trusted Blair.
Sound like anyone else we know? Has he been getting talking-points blast-faxes from Unka Karl? And look at those poll numbers...if they can be translated to the folks on this side of the Atlantic, the 1600 Crew will have to do more spinning than a tornado and more lying than Ollie North under oath. But that's pretty much second nature to them...
