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2007 - May
12-05-2007, 09:03 PM,
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2007 - May
It took me a long time to get pissed off with Blair, but eventually it happened.

I still suspect that he's an essentially decent man, but it's exasperating that he seems to have wasted the golden opportunity of a mandate stretching over ten years. Even the bitter pill of Iraq could have been sweetened a little by striking success at home -- and I just don't see it. Teacher friends tell me of more books in the classroom, and I can see that my local GP's surgery has had money spent on it, but I was hoping for something rather more radical than this.

In particular, public transport was an area that I had great hopes for but I see no progress here whatsoever. I was in London yesterday, and my colleague mentioned it had cost her £130 to get there from Bristol on the train. Staggering to have to pay that much for a journey of what -- 100 miles or so?

Anyway, no doubt we'll all pitch in with more analysis overe the coming weeks but that's a summary of my overwhelming conclusion: a missed opportunity, and one that I'm not at all sure we'll get again in my lifetime.
El Gordo

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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2007 - May - by El Gordo - 02-05-2007, 10:56 PM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 03-05-2007, 04:45 AM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 03-05-2007, 09:21 AM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 03-05-2007, 09:32 AM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 03-05-2007, 09:36 AM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 03-05-2007, 09:40 PM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 03-05-2007, 10:57 PM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 03-05-2007, 11:13 PM
2007 - May - by glaconman - 04-05-2007, 09:49 AM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 04-05-2007, 10:14 AM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 04-05-2007, 10:56 AM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 04-05-2007, 11:13 AM
2007 - May - by glaconman - 04-05-2007, 11:49 AM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 06-05-2007, 02:34 PM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 06-05-2007, 03:27 PM
2007 - May - by Antonio247 - 06-05-2007, 07:30 PM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 07-05-2007, 10:44 AM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 07-05-2007, 11:33 AM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 07-05-2007, 01:00 PM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 07-05-2007, 09:16 PM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 08-05-2007, 09:29 AM
2007 - May - by Moyleman - 08-05-2007, 07:22 PM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 12-05-2007, 02:21 PM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 12-05-2007, 09:03 PM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 13-05-2007, 01:27 PM
2007 - May - by Antonio247 - 13-05-2007, 07:39 PM
2007 - May - by Sweder - 13-05-2007, 08:03 PM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 13-05-2007, 08:58 PM
2007 - May - by Bierzo Baggie - 13-05-2007, 10:40 PM
2007 - May - by Nick - 15-05-2007, 06:47 AM
2007 - May - by marathondan - 17-05-2007, 11:11 PM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 18-05-2007, 04:42 AM
2007 - May - by El Gordo - 18-05-2007, 08:19 AM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 18-05-2007, 11:07 PM
2007 - May - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 20-05-2007, 02:34 AM
2007 - May - by Ana - 26-05-2007, 03:40 PM
2007 - May - by Ana - 26-05-2007, 03:42 PM

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