He’s the best PM of my life time IMO. He messed up with Iraq and Afghanistan, but his government also brought in minimum wage (or living wage as it is now) Sure Start, the two week cancer pathway etc.
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Yes he did do positive stuff but Iraq and Afghanistan have tainted him. I am not really sure why ex PM's have to have titles anyway.
The Iraq stuff is complicated, there was an agreement already in place and once Bush pushed the red button there wasn’t much Blair could do only act under that agreement if my memory serves me correctly… 
I don’t think any PM should be honored, unless they’ve done something outside of their official role, or have introduced something that has had a lasting positive impact that would never have been done without their involvement they’re being honored for doing a job they get paid well to do
his duck ups or positives at home should be questioned more than the Iraq/Af invasion.
But there’s never any mention of that in reporting.
I don’t live in the uk so my opinion probably isn’t relevant doesn’t stop me though
**heads back to elle Darby thread**
I don’t think any PM should be honored, unless they’ve done something outside of their official role, or have introduced something that has had a lasting positive impact that would never have been done without their involvement they’re being honored for doing a job they get paid well to do
his duck ups or positives at home should be questioned more than the Iraq/Af invasion.
But there’s never any mention of that in reporting.
I don’t live in the uk so my opinion probably isn’t relevant
doesn’t stop me though **heads back to elle Darby thread**
I absolutely agree with you have put. But he’s at it again with his university obsession and I wish he would shut the duck up.Setting up a thread mainly for a poll.
I think the guy is given way way way too much credit being called "the best prime minister we've had" () as he did inherit a good situation.
Countless mistakes he made, but for me one of the worst was the big push for so many to attend university. Making the whole industry big business, adding tuition fees, pushing lots of vocational stuff to an unsuitable degree and making the minimum requirement for so many jobs automatically a degree even if it didn't really need it.
The country needed a change after John Major. However, no prime minister or party have perfect records.
The government invested massively in hospitals and schools. I remember at the time people said any government would have had to do it because a lot were built in the 1870's and were about a hundred years old. I think you can judge a youngish politician on their life after politics and Blair seems not to have achieved much.
The best book I read was the third man by Peter Mandleson which is a good read and balanced between Blair and Brown.
I think Gladstone, Disraeli and Churchill were better but that Blair achieved a lot domestically. I agree about everyone needing a university education being a mistake. There are lots of jobs that need to be done that don't need much training and we can't just expect an endless supply of willing immigrants to do them.
The best book I read was the third man by Peter Mandleson which is a good read and balanced between Blair and Brown.
I think Gladstone, Disraeli and Churchill were better but that Blair achieved a lot domestically. I agree about everyone needing a university education being a mistake. There are lots of jobs that need to be done that don't need much training and we can't just expect an endless supply of willing immigrants to do them.