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Yo, Blair!

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154 pages; 19 cm

Summary

"Yo, Blair! That unforgettable greeting from President to Prime Minister overheard at the St. Petersburg summit in 2006 has come to epitomise their relationship. It summed up Tony Blair's servile standing in the eyes of George Bush, and like a lightning flash illuminated the appalling truth: under Blair's prime ministership, the country he governs has ceased to be an independent nation.
From the beginning a Prime Minister without a party, he now clings on to office but is openly despised by all those he deals with. The calamitous Blair decade has been defined - and he has been ruined - by foreign adventures, culminating in an unnecessary, illegal and catastrophic war in Iraq, which will entirely overshadow any domestic achievements.".
"How did it happen? Yo, Blair! shows that everything for which Blair is now so widely despised and disliked is not a random accident, but could be discerned in his career and personality from an early stage. Not a conventional biography of Blair, nor of his government, this is rather a polemic, in the tradition of Orwell: a blast on the trumpet about the most disastrous premiership of modern times."--BOOK JACKET.

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2007408713

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Princeton University Library