O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Ram59]

[QUOTE=ramAnag;39708897]Funny thing, Blair - who imo did so much good - is repeatedly, and fairly, castigated for taking us into war in Iraq, while Thatcher - who imo did so much damage - remains the ‘darling of the Right’ and was given almost heroic status for taking us to war with Argentina.

Have a wild guess where more British troops died...Iraq or the South Atlantic?



Just looked on here after a bit of a break and wondered how we got on to this topic.


As for the above statement, but much as I wanted to, I couldn't let it go without comment.

I'm speechless!

[ramAnag]

[QUOTE=Ram59;39709786]

Funny thing, Blair - who imo did so much good - is repeatedly, and fairly, castigated for taking us into war in Iraq, while Thatcher - who imo did so much damage - remains the ‘darling of the Right’ and was given almost heroic status for taking us to war with Argentina.

Have a wild guess where more British troops died...Iraq or the South Atlantic?



Just looked on here after a bit of a break and wondered how we got on to this topic.


As for the above statement, but much as I wanted to, I couldn't let it go without comment.

I'm speechless!

I’m not sure being ‘speechless’ is actually a ‘comment’ Ram.

We disagree, not for the first time, or the last, I suspect. We have different perspectives. From mine, Blair is the best PM of my lifetime, Thatcher and Johnson the two worst. I very much doubt you’d agree.

I disagreed entirely with Blair over Iraq and Thatcher over the Falklands but, as has been made clear, it’s not really relevant to this thread.

Curiously Blair does remain relevant to the Covid aspect of current events as the Blair Foundation has a lot to say, much of it very useful, about vaccinations and the ‘road map’ back to something like normality.