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Bye Bye Blair

by Kris ⋅ May 10, 2007 ⋅ Comment now ⋅ Subscribe RSS

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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that he will resign on June 27th. He is the only one in UK history besides Margaret Thatcher to last a full 10 years in office. Even though most of the country distrusts him (similar to our country’s leader’s falling popularity rating) he holds steadfast to his belief that sending British troops in 2003 to assist America’s Iraq invasion was a spot-on deal. Tony Blair was probably best known in anti-war circles as Dubya’s puppet boy. Or at least I called him that.

The Labour Party says they will announce their replacement on June 24th. Finance Minister Gordon Brown has been cited as a favorite.

Already politicians and citizens are optimistic about the change. Conservative leader David Cameron only had sweet parting words for Blair: “[the Blair decade had been] 10 years of dashed hopes and big disappointments, of so much promise and so little delivery”. Political cartoonists say they will miss doodling Blair’s caricature with the big ears and the massive teeth, often with one deranged eyeball; they even dubbed him “Bambi Blair” because he was drawn cutesy in the beginning. “As a voter I won’t miss him in the slightest. As a cartoonist, I will miss him hugely,” said Time cartoonist Peter Brookes. Dave Brown of the Independent spat “I detest the man and what he’s done. But he’s great to draw. You put all that bile, hatred and angst into drawing.”

The Guardian’s Steve Bell is commemorating Blair’s resignation with a series entitled “Bambi, the final hours” which includes the Disney fawn with a Fuhrer moustache. Steve was the same cartoonist who depicted Muslim terrorists the split second before beheading Mickey Mouse. Not going for subtly that Mr. Bell. One of his sketches is pictured below.

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