Ha, ha - me either! I hadn't heard about the nursery rhyme until reading the link, though I've seen on the news about Tony Blair resigning. I thought England liked him??! Except for joining in the Iraq war.
The UK
did like him, Sarapva - in fact many loved him when he came to power, as such a breath of fresh air after the sleaze and misery of the late Conservative years.
Alas, after a couple of promising early years, we've now returned to the sleaze of past administrations tenfold (not exactly - forgive my turn of phrase, but that's how it feels). After all, I believe this is the first Prime Minister we've ever had who's been interviewed by the police while in power!
The misery - well, we are far better off in many sense than when Labour was elected in 1997. Not least economically - this Chancellor has much to be proud of, and in fact I put him squarely behind most of the achievements this Government has made, economic or not! Also, look to the strides forward in Northern Irish peace (outweighing the costs imvho) and the efforts made for the extension of aid to Africa - magnificent stuff.
The worst of the bad stuff is the erosion of civil liberties here (probably the biggest erosion of liberties of any kind in a supposedly-free nation anywhere in the world) and crushing potential problems in terms of unsustainable and uncontrolled immigration.
Iraq?
A farce.
As one who campaigned in Japan against that illegal war, and held countless, futile arguments with many Americans there over the facts of the matter (i'm an always-optimistic fella who's always willing to give someone a chance - a shame, it's cost me hundreds of hours of precious life so far!) I must say that it's absolutely no condolence whatsoever to me that i've been proved right - in fact things are far worse than even us anti-war protestors thought it ever could be.
That said, we must remember that despite the huge protestations at the time, a majority - not huge, though - in the UK (within and without the Government) did support the war.
Interestingly also, the invasion came at a time when Blair's administration was in trouble, and looked like running out of steam, and rather more crucially, popular support.
Ah well, the pizzeria has lost one chief. I don't think there can be any doubt that the next one will be the one we should have had in the first place (for better or for worse)
Olive, anyone?
Actually, I think the opposite might be feasible - that Americans could blame Britain for the war - it would have been hard to go it alone, after all, and the Commander-in-Chief didn't need to deceive Congress and the nation in order to gain support for the war in the same way Baker Tony did.
