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Indeed you could, I criticise politicians in office across the board whereas you only attack the blue and yellow ones.
Oh I have criticised Gordon Brown, Nigel Farage, Nick Griffin, Ed Milliband for his softly, softly approach and I am sure others in my time. I certainly do not spend 99% of my time criticising one person.
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Mr Cameron and Mr Blair agree on most issues, from foreign policy to the European Union, to education, to healthcare, to size and scope of the public sector, to the extent of civil liberties, to our relationship with the United States, to our involvement in overseas adventures, to political correctness (equality and diversity legislation). If you wish to pick me up on this point then i'd be more than happy to go into each example and list exactly how and where they agree, and why they agree.
As I said Cameron has based himself on Blair but is a mere shadow. Cameron spends most of his mind changing his mind. At least Tony Blair as with Margaret Thatcher (whether we agreed with them or not) had the courage of their convictions.
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Why didn't we cosy upto Saddam then in that case? oh wait we did many years ago along with supporting him in his war that he started against Iran - a country which now is after nuclear weapons and yet you wonder why. But ap[art from that, he [Saddam] allowed inspectors in to prove it - but still, the truth was simply too inconvenient for Mr Blair and Mr Bush.
Or possibly because he had invaded Kuwait and had been subject to sanctions by the UN since 1990 and had killed 50,000 Kurds. Just a few small things that spring to mind.
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Mr Blair hasn't been punished for his lies and hypocrisy, he is a very rich man.
What has being rich got to do with anything? If he just wanted to be a rich man he would not have spent almost 25 years in politics. Money cannot buy reputation and he has been crucified by many. He believed in what he did and had the courage to do it. The American Ambassador summed up it perfectly. He said it is all very well to criticise an action with 20/20 hindsight but it does not mean that decision was not right given the times we then lived in.
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But Murdoch and Blair do share the same views, see the Hitchens link.
Sorry Dan that would be like asking Burger King who make the best burgers - one would not get an unbiased view.
These are Tony Blairs belief - he was a centre left politician.
http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/lab97.htm
Murdoch is supposed to be a neo conservative but this quote I believe sums him up the best:
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Some observers see Murdoch as more closely attracted to power and opportunism than ideology. Tim Arango of the New York Times writes, “Mr. Murdoch's politics have often proved more malleable and less dogmatic than his critics have portrayed. He has been pragmatic in aligning himself, and his company, with power, rather than ideology. He supported Tony Blair in Britain, and in 2006, his New York Post endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Senate. Mr. Murdoch even hosted a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton. And shortly after the election of Barack Obama as president, the Post fawned over him in its pages
