Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
But who started all the sucking up to newly appointed russian leader Putin in 2000 by ignoring war crimes in Chechnya for the sake of oil deals in the area. Your hero Blair is the answer (as it often is with negative aspects of 21st century politics). Sure, the current government has maintained a probably unhealthy closeness, but who started the trend....
Perfectly fair point...but he a) hasn’t been PM for 15 years and b) isn’t, and never has been, my ‘hero’...so ‘sure, the current government has maintained a probably unhealthy closeness’ is your only relevant point...and we agree.