Cheerio, Mr. Blair

Well, since Ragu doesn't seem to have a reason, I'll continue to believe that at least a big part of it was the fact that the war -- and his alliance with its moronic American architects -- demolished Mr. Blair's popular standing and, thus, his political viability. Thus, "It's just time" came quicker than he'd planned.

 

It certainly wasn't the war on its own. Its the fact that he said he was going to step down before the last election, and then didn't. He continually put it off.

Then there was the cash for honors scandal that hasn't entirely gone away.

Then the business' who are dodging paying income tax by holding their money in offshore accounts, despite the governments claims they're going to clamp down on those practices.

The fact that he's acted like a President, instead of a Prime Minister, and that at his presidential bi-weekly press conference he'd only answer questions from people who weren't going to ask him anything tough.

The repeated scandals that have followed his party members around in the last five years, and repeated postitioning of those same MP's in Cabinet posts after they get sent to the corner for being naughty.

The fact that the NHS is still broken thanks to beurocracy and a failed IT system that cost far more than was originally estimated. And that more state school fields and grounds get sold off every week for more supermarkets to be put up.

Other than that, he was doing fine.