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  • haha, NORWAY! what idiot suffering from 'post imperial stress disorder' said Norway?

  • Whoever shouted "Norway" was correct. Blair's question was "name one other country in Europe that supports it"...

    Norway is in Europe (but not the European Union...but that wasn't Blair's question).

    But anyway, Blair did a good job making whoever it was look silly, albeit without genuine cause.

  • Norway!

  • Who the fuck shouted Norway?

  • I dont support Labour, but that was pretty massive ownage

  • @RichardElden

    Thatcher introduced the "dole". here money for nothing.

    Labour re-introduced JSA in the 90's, here money for seeking work.

    Anything less is your own negativity, don't go pushing blame on to the people who actually do "work" while you sit there in your office counting the birds flying in to your window and thinking you are Dr. Evil because of it.

    Like the short ass with napolean syndrome.

  • @RichardElden

    Labour - For the People

    Conservatives - For the Paper

    I think you will find that taxpayers complain while sitting in their office chair, try picking your geek ass up and doing some REAL work. Labour promotes REAL work.

  • @RichardElden

    it was hardly encouragement.."new deal" worked for a lot of "people", you know.. not paper but people; getting people who were unemployed and youth in to training and might i add, more training than conservatives before. Thatcher fucked this country, watch the unemployment rise then tell the people who are making "paper"

  • cliché

    Cameron is doing worse for a country that already had a high level of unemployment and is close to having the highest crime rate in the world.

    Time to build a barrier around London eh, because conservatives don't give two shits about what is outside of the box.. US is a fine example.

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  • Referendum!!

  • He asked them to name a country in Europe that supported it, not necessarily a member of the European Union. So Norway isn't as ridiculous an answer as made out.

  • @extrusve Listen to the beginning of the clip. He's talking about the Treaty of Rome, which defines the function of the EU, and uses 'Europe' to refer to the EU.

  • What a brilliant man to lead Britain into the 21st century; young, intelligent, bright. Wouldn't of wished to have anyone else.

  • @Intel1250 You're not Iraqi or Afghani then

  • Whatever Blair you murderer. May the blood of our soldiers and innocents in your wars remain forever on your hands.

  • trouble is with europe were getting f--ck all

    but we are handing millions out to the mickey mouse countries in it

    who cant run an economy

    balls to the EMU and u blair

  • LOL

  • Here another comparison your not looking at how many banks did iceland bail from the recession OR putting it more correctly how much tax money went to failed banks in iceland vs how much of uk money was borrowed and poured into failed uk banks 4-5 maybe? thats 1 icelandic bank failed (lol btw uk pension money went poof) so u tell me who has bigger issues and therefore give respect where it is due.

  • bLAIR deserves the same fate as Charles the first.

  • Norway has rejected the EU though, as has Iceland & Switzerland.

    All three of them are twice as rich per head as the UK.

    Coincidence? I think not.

  • @tdp1909 BTW iceland after the recession has put in a formal application to join EU-Switzerland is a tax haven so it has a niche and with 8 million as countries population which is 3/4 of london why would u even think to compare populations to uk 62million . Income distribution is a lot more erratic 62 million mouths to feed to 8 million. As for dear Norway who have a sustained national income in demand consider themselves lucky, for how long who knows? Russia is the gas giant not Norway...

  • @benjaminjean1984 Russia controls the price of gas so Norway's income vastly depends on energy prices. Norways population is 5 million again how can u compare income per capita to uk which has 62 million? How has the UK addressed this it's gone Tory/lib dem so those elites only get richer leaving gap between rich and poor even bigger and gives u figures like that.

  • @benjaminjean1984 Switzerland is a Tax haven?? No it isn't - it's a sovereign state. Tax havens tend to be small countries or islands which are subsidised by other states to keep their taxes low (e.g. Liechtenstein or Channel Islands).

    Population statistics don't invalidate a good economic model - there is no reason why a large country such as ourselves should not be outside of the E.U. - It was our 'Splendid isolation' which made us (and places like Holland) top dogs in the first place...

  • @tdp1909 Most economic commentators suggest that the first "true" tax haven was Switzerland, followed closely by Liechtenstein. However i was referring to swiss past it has changed but its past lay'd those foundations for it to be where it is today. As for isolation Britain of any nation is not isolated with the commonwealth and now the EU commonwealth it never really was alone.

  • @tdp1909 Luxembourg, by head, is the wealthiest country in the world...and they are a member of the EU.GDP per head has nothing to do with membership of the EU. And actually a poll in norway has shown the majority of people in norway want to join the EU....it's just our extremely bias media that exaggerates things.

  • @EuropeanBrit Actually, Qatar is wealthiest :-p.

    GDP per head should be the central focus as it is primarily an economic union. What else is it? It certainly took the wrong lesson from the war in being so anti-democratic.

    And going back to Norway, you say "a poll", but Norway rejected EU membership in 1994 & most polls since then show they still do, some by as much as 2/3. Why would this be if the EU were such a boon?

  • @tdp1909 what i don't understand is how do u expect an economic model of union between nations to work if political power is not harnessed collectively? So be apart of the EU for economic reasons but everything political we will keep in whitehall. Sounds to good to be true don't you think. A lot of bigger questions like climate change, organised crime, terrorism need the EU to work together and i think a lot of those powers have moved.

  • @tdp1909 yeah sorry, you are right about qatar, but i study economics and GDP per head has literally nothing to do with being a member of the european union, except for the fact that over all within the eu GDP per capita, minus inflation, has increased. Plus the european union is our most important trading partner.

  • @EuropeanBrit And the rest of the world rely on similar style monetary and political unions to trade? The EU is just taking advantage of the free market, and milking the prosperous west in order to support Eastern Europe's false economy.

  • @tdp1909 Exactly. People use the old UK referendum as an example, but the EU has changed radically from a simple trade agreement to a bureaucratic and inefficient waste of time.

  • @bronzerevolution1 Coming from somebody that I can almost guarantee has never sat down and spent even five minutes actually studying the workings of the EU.

  • Norway has the sort of relationship with the EU that we should have. Membership of the European Free Trade Association.

    We should be offering the EU an ultimatum - either scale down and abolish the top-down, micromanaged, bureaucratic, socialist, undemocratic nonsense, or we, the UK, the 2nd biggest funder of this godforsaken mess, will withdraw.

  • @Maino88

    Ok. Withdraw. The economy will be hit very hard, the joblessness and collapse of the pound will be far more unpopular than european membership could ever be, the government that puts it through will be voted out, another will get in. Probobly one willing to take us back into europe, which will slow or fix the effects of the economic collapse cementing their popularity, and probobly making people like europe more. Or, you could try and reform it from within. Either works.

  • @sketchydc The collapse of the £? Joblessness? How many jobs do you think the British have in Brussels? Because surely those are the jobs to which you are intimating. And of COURSE the dole queue's in Switzerland and Norway are positively snaking round corners. Breadlines everywhere! Reforming it from within has not worked. Because we have created a monster of a bureaucracy that has more competencies today than ever. Your economic illiteracy is only outdone by your political naivety. Congrats.

  • @Maino88

    The european union provides most of our trade. We would lose jobs from leaving it.

    The european union holds the largest holdings of the pound, if they sold it it would result in the collapse of the pound.

    Switzerland and Norway have never been in the EU, and as such their economies are not geared toward trade within it. It is as if you were comparing a dairy farmer complaining about a cheese company, then bemoaning how the tobacco farmers do just fine without the cheese company.

  • @sketchydc who says we would lose trade by leaving it?

  • @MrGilles1990 we would lose the competitiveness to other european countries within the EU who would not be paying the necessary charges to have goods transferred between controlled trade areas. I would not buy anything more expensive simply because its made in the uk if i could get it cheaper from zee germans. :S

  • @benjaminjean1984 nothing is more valuable than democracy ;)

  • @Maino88 Also, note how your response consists of repetition rhetoric, rhetorical questions, a logical fallacy, an unsubstantiated claim (Reform has not worked), yet more rhetoric, and then two ad hominem attacks. There is no semblence of an arguement in your response, nor of intelligent discourse. 

  • @sketchydc Well to be fair to me it's Youtube is hardly the place for detailed economic debate. Leaving the EU will undoubtedly cause problems in the short term, and I wouldn't want that to happen. I want the EU to revert back to its status as a Free Trade Area. But even if this was not to happen and we totally withdrew, the British economy would adjust, our agricultural sector would be much more competitive. British financial services would not be facing the shackles coming from Brussels...

  • @sketchydc ...but to argue that the economies of Norway and Switzerland are not geared towards trade within it, is fallacious. They are already WITHIN the free trade area. Norway is in the EEA. I mean...this is basic stuff. It is nothing like your cheese/tobacco example. The European Union is a gigantic, bureaucratic, top-down, federalist entity that is costing its members FAR too much money. We were asked in 1975 whether we wanted to be part of a common market, NOT a European Superstate...

  • @sketchydc ...with a Foreign Service, Police force, supremacy over various aspects of UK law, a Commission with right of initiation pushing us further towards federalism. We're spending billions and billions a year providing eurocrats a job deliberating on how they undermine our national parliaments and betray the principles of subsidiarity. No-one agreed to this. Parliament is the custodian of our liberties, and successive govts have given them away without consultation.

  • @sketchydc Oh and by the way, don't insult my intelligence and then spell argument "arguement". And reform clearly has not worked, as the EU continues to become this illiberal, undemocratic monster. When was the last time the EU's own auditors signed off on the EU budget? 14 years ago.

    That reform you're on about is clearly working like a charm.

  • I thought for a sec he was re-iterating there would be a referendum on the Lisbon Treay. But wrong of course; there was no referendum (which would have been defeated) as Labour originally promised. But he didn't.

    Maybe pre-occupied with dreaming of WMD in Iraq (while ignoring Iran and Israel for same). Maybe dreaming of his well-paid future days fronting the "Quartet", which must be musical because diplomatically it's been a flop. EU sucked UK in. Loss of sovereignty resulted. Bush poodle.

  • the person who shouted norway was saying that norway is strong and independent of the EU and does not have to give billions of pounds to this undemocratic union for nothing in return.

  • @NumberDne No... he wasn't

  • Whoever shouted Norway achieved pure Epic Fail there.

    Total Pwnage from Blair

  • @19189073 No I mean the Torys

  • Blair was the master at this kind of thing, getting across the Labour message someone Brown doesnt have the charisma to do. Only over the next few yrs when the Tories mess up the nhs and our schools will people start to realise what labour did for the country.

  • @thehindugod I couldn't agree more. Blair was the master orator, it didn't matter whether he was right, or whether he was wrong. If there was a debate with him in it, he would win it. That's probably the thing I miss most about having Tony as our prime minister (not that there are a lot of things I miss about him), is having a leader that was a truly spectacular speaker. Gordon and David just didn't, and don't cut it in that way.

  • @thehindugod So who do you think will win the Labour leadership?

  • @kayman92 David Milliband..the right choice!!

  • phony tony good at speech good at promis but cannot deliver he had us all over

  •  glad he's gone wish he'd never been in-this country was better 15yrs ago

  • @pazzerhead better 15 years ago?! I bet you're only 15 years old

  • Well done Tony......you walked all over them.

  • sooo good

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  • FUCK BLAIR...wanker..sold this country out ..

  • i never heard clearly the word norway, but damnn he was so wrong

  • FLAWLESS VICTORY!

  • Fatality!

  • @KINGIBYM haha !

  • whoever shouted norway is a bell end lol

  • michael howard shouted norway

  • Who cares if it was planned i'd take Labour over tories any day, Conservative's are self serving leeches that suck off the poor and feed the rich. Makes me sick that so many british citizens were blinded by conservative mass media enticing them to vote for them. Just watch the economy crash now.

  • @Mirishikari The economy couldn't get any lower than Labour have dragged it down.

  • @dezboss My god, forgot how the conservatives under Tatcher ruined the social standards? Because of her, 27% of all children born in Britain was born in poverty. Labour had a hell of a job to do.

  • norway been wiped out germans

  • Norway not in the EU.... No thats true, ...... They weren't that daft

  • he shoots he scores!

  • The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. Albert Einstein.

    The slogans of Newspeak are, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. George Orwell.

    Google: IndieGoGo Can Bush Be Prosecuted?, Kymatica (2009) & Zeitgeist - Addendum

    It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti.

    Wiki Sheeple. FCUK Obamageddon. FCUK Obamastan.

  • @MaSteRKuSH010 what the 4k are you talking about

  • If someone shouted "Norway" it would be in Hansard. It isn't, so Blair lied to set up his planned "joke"

  • Funny how all of the idiots posting on here seem so easily convinced by all this. Even over headphones you can't hear anyone say 'Norway' so these people commenting must have amazing hearing. Notice how Blair quickly entices them to name a country because he's already planned his Norway idea. There's too much ambience so he could easily have just acted like somebody said it just for a few cheap laughs. Truly the biggest scum in British history.

  • Obviously a tory front bencher who shouts out Norway from the angle of Blairs stare. Always enjoy a good laugh at the tories expense.

  • Even when the joker is a war criminal living off the oil fields of Kurdistan and speeches about peace in the middle east after causing war there.

  • spaccer.. why did he shout norway, he just totaly humiliated his own tory party

  • Who the hell shouted Norway?

  • @Massey755 blair obviously did his homework on the EU:)

  • @Massey755 Just shows how out-of-touch the Tories are. Was probably distracted while having a talk with his city banking mates.

  • @Yownanymous Well it's Blair who is being paid £1 million a year by Goldman Sachs investment Bank, probably as a pay off for selling all our gold reserves at rock botton price.

  • @aeronuk1 That wasn't Blair that was Brown, Tony was already gone by then

  • @erestun No, they started selling off the gold reserves in 1999 and Blair was fist lord of the treasury as well as PM so ultimately he was responsable for it even though Brown was chancellor.

  • @Massey755 Rumour has it that no-one did. Perhaps Blair thought he heard something amidst the shouting, or maybe he jad planned the line all along to try and make the Tories look bad. Who knows, funny Commons moment though.

  • The Labour-loved European Union is spiralling into debt, with mammoth fraud and incompetence trashing the EU inside and out.

    But that won't stop EU penpushers holding member states to ransom by taking them to court to snatch their multi-million Pound wage claims!

    Paste title into the bar: EPIDEMIC EU FRAUD AND DEBT NO BARRIER TO EUROCRAT WAGE CLAIMS!

  • You must already be aware of the important constitutuional role that the Queen plays and her centrality in the life of our nation, so Iam naturally assuming that your comments are in jest. Without the Monarch we would just have politicians, and nobody believes in them anymore. They have no function. We have a Labour govt who will not withdraw from Iraq and Tories who will not promise to withdraw from the E.U. They are pointless.

  • Then I look at my town, a far better place thanks to Blair, and I think - fuck the national press reading, bullshit swilling, city-dwelling masses - look at the change that is physical. Labour pumped cash into my dying railway town and made it a far better place. That is a concrete fact and I know, because I've literally lived it. We would get nothing up here from monarchs or Tories - call me a fool for believing politics, but I'm Labour till I die. Everything good for all has come from them.

  • I notice that your post is three hours old. It is now 5.30 am. Therefore you must have come in completely out of it on drink or drugs from the local nightclub at about 2.00am. This helps explain your bizarre post.

  • 3rd in 2005, 2nd in 2009, 1st in 2014.

    It would be great if we could be first in 2010 general. The two major parties are the same.They have given away sovereignty which was not theirs to give. It is time the Queen intervened.

  • Ah, the theatrics of politics, all empty suits, one and all.

  • Also, even if your parliamentary debates are loaded with rhetorical flourishes and are mere political theatre, they are at the very least amusing and often hilarious. Have you ever watched a "debate" in the Senate? They are utterly boring; in any event, any debates at this level are never debates. They are a chance to throw in some attacks and spin some talking points. The real debates are always behind closed doors.

  • To the English gentlemen who commends America for rebuilding Europe after the second World War: You would be wise to realize it is quite faulty logic to justify an evil action today by appealing to past good deeds. As an American, I am confident that the eight years of the Bush administration will go down in history as some of the darkest in our history and nothing that happened under the Truman administration or the Washington administration will change ever change that.

  • Hear hear!

  • Really the public is to blame for trusting politicians so blindly.

  • This is bullshit. I doubt anyone said anything. Blair manipulated a situation asking for a name knowing that he could make them look like retards saying a country that isn't in th E.U.

  • Complete traitor.

    God knows what is in store for us living under the Soviet European Republic.

  • Yes indeed. As an Englishman, I am proud to be a staunch Atlantacist. I despise the self appointed left wing intellectuals who believe it is hip and trendy to criticise the United States. However, it is America that rebuilt Europe after WW2, for which we should be eternally grateful. America isn't perfect, but what country is? America should be extremely proud of its role in establishing the 2nd democracy in the Middle East after Israel... Iraq.

  • America should be extremely proud of protecting the State of Israel from the fundamentalist Arab Muslims who have committed themselves to ''driving the Jews into the ocean.'' The Jewish people, who were driven out of Israel 2000 years ago by a fascistic Roman dictator finally returned home in 2008 and America has rightly protected them. The world should be grateful to America for being a beacon of individual and economic freedom and conservatism (though I don't know your ideology).

  • Returned home in 2008? You don't mean 1948? The State of Israel is the upshot of the British Mandate of Palestine which was granted by the League of Nations after the Treaty of Versailles, and finished in 1948. Between those two periods the British premiership flooded the region with Jews who were returning to Israel after the diaspora. Israel as a nation was created in 1948.

  • It's a pity that our current leader doesn't have an ounce of that skill in speaking, although a policy I liked from either would be much preferred!

  • Blair pwned the Tories there

  • To be fair, at the time it wasn't hard. It was an open goal.

  • Fucking " Thatcherite" cunt!

  • you moron! simply stating Facts! I remember the days when the Thatcher government wouldn't clean the walls of schools and hospitals above 6foot. so go fuck yourself, you ignorant prick.

  • Thick shit

  • i luv that - i'm the 'thick shit' and you reply with that calibre of insult. anyway have fun in the political doldrums. idiot.

  • he said name another country in europe that supports it,

    meaning name another country in the eu

  • Technically with the wording he put on the question Norway was correct, however it was obvious that Blair meant the EU.

  • No, Norway wasn't correct then, as only fully ratified members of the European Union are a party to The Treaty of Rome.

  • owned

  • to be honest mate your mincing his words. he meant the eu, everyone knew he meant the eu the tories got decked.

    blair was dishonest but so is every other politician, the truthful ones get slated and sidelined because the public doesn;t want to hear the truth.

    also, the EU is an overall possitive force. you can bleat out dailymail bullshit about beurocracy and corruption all you want but the media is just as bad if not worse than politicians and party's

  • Blair wasn't specific enough.

    Norway IS in Europe. But they had the good sense to stay out of the EU. :)

    Front bench Tory 1

    Blair Nil

    Sorry, Tone.

  • He did say name one European country rather than EU country you're right. but it was still pretty funny.

  • "In Europe" refers to the European Union...

  • Norway is IN EUROPE.

    But NOT in the EU. (They have sense)

    Let us understand this and remember it.

  • Yes I studied European Union Studies at University but thank you for reiterating what I already know full well with regards to member states.

    When people use the term "In Europe" in a political context and from a British perspective, they are more often than not referring to the European Union.

  • he says quite clearly "Norway isn't in the european union"

    -he's right

    -he owned

  • you sound to everyone as if you don't know what your talking about. It's common practise to mean the EU when saying 'Europe' in a political environment. Also, it wasn't a cheap shot, it would be worrying if Blair didn't say what he did and far 'cheaper' shots have been made, but that is what British political debate is about.

  • Blair wanker

  • This Blair!He could deabate very well!Amazing stuff.Cameron shred Brown to pieces in one u tube video but Blair shed Cameron to pieces in another video.But I still wanna lynch him for what he did to Britian.He made Britian america's poodle!!!!Fuckin Bastard just arguing good talk ins't gonna help!!

  • He said name one country in Europe, not in the EU!

  • Who on the Tory front bench said Norway?

  • Miss tony blair vry much... best british pm ever :-)

  • no way!

  • Tony Blair the best prime minister.

    other than

    Winston churchill greatest man ever lived

  • you are surly joking!!!

  • Tories got told. Blair is the best PM since Churchill.

  • at least blair had some common sense, tories dont know their right from left...

    norway haha come on please these people are meant to be challenging the job of country leadership the least they can do is read into basic EU Membership policies!

  • Weird to think that both Blair and Thatcher, convincing winners of 3 elections each, were ousted by their own party, not the electorate... Thatcher would most probably have beaten that fool Kinnock in 1992 (even John Major got 14 million votes against him), and Blair would probably beat David 'the-other-leaders-are-so-crap­-that-he's-the-best-option' Cameron. Without their own parties chucking them out, the weak opposition meant that Blair and Thatch could have had 20 years each, what a thought!

  • Its just laughable how people say Labour and Tories are the same, they are different if you bother to read their policies.

  • I liked Tony Blair. The only thing i can really disagree with him on is Iraq. But still the worst thing that happened to blair was that twat George W Bush. Apart from that I still support Tony.

  • the torys have better views on europe than blair or his rotten party

  • with a username like yours i will ignore you

  • so sending me a comment is ignoring me?

  • In a wider context, they are indistinguishable.

  • in some ways yes..... but not on europe.... not on tax..... not on id cards.... and many many other things...... yes blair subscribes to a lot of thatcherism..... thatcher does not subscribe to blairism

  • your very irritating

  • thanks..... and why is that? because i have a different view to u?

  • You mean the Tories that signed the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty? I don't think so, somehow.

  • fair point i suppose.... but dont pretend labour are any better on europe.... we have had a pro europ labour govt for more than 10 years..... do we have a single currency which blair put 5 years of time in trying to do? no.... do we have a referendum which he promised several times? no. would gordon brown sign up to it? no...... now thats not because they dont want to..... its because the view in the country is slightly eurosceptic.... just like the tory party.....

  • Still, at least they promised a referendum and haven't taken us into the single currency. Think about another 5 years of Major and Clarke! We'd already have the Euro by now as Clarke said he would have joined from the start and he doesn't believe in referendums. On the same basis he'd have presumably just signed up to the constitution, come what May. So yes, New Labour are pro-EU but they've never quite reached the same level of EU Fanaticism as seen with Clarke, Heseltine, Major etc.

  • no im not so sure.... they were very pro euro when they were new to power..... over time they realised that the single currency was not possible to win a referendum.... then they fell out with europe a few times...... tony blair once said that joining the euro was going to b his legacy

  • Tony Blair is The Man! Please run for the US Pres.

  • lol at the laughs. Still I liked Tony Blair

  • Tony Blair has his greatest moment as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party of England. He was a great debater, if not a very principled person.

  • I'd rather have some one like Blair in charge than those pompous torys anyway.

    How could you vote for David Cameron! Just take two looks at him does he look like some one who represents the normal British citizen, or someone who represents the Eaton elite?

  • Blair spent years trying to get us out of the E.U. labour even put him in charge of a committee to organise for our withdrawal from the E.U. and he would like us all to forget about that and pretend he was always a "proud european citizen" as he calls himself. Blair is the fool in this no none else.

  • "Norway? Norway isnt a member of the EU!"

    Brilliant stuff Blair!

  • Tony . . right for once , and fairly funny with it !! .. crap on guitar though !

  • Surprise, surprise... Tories acting like spoilt little private school brats in the Commons and showing they have no understanding of the very issue they want to debate.

  • couldnt've put it better!

  • Tony Blair was a good leader now he has gone Labour is a weak party !

  • i think ull have great difficulty finding a politician that doesn't lie

  • bwfc1000 I can not disagree but can you name a British politician who has EVER taken these United Kingdoms to war based on lies made to Parliament, the peoples and the Monarch - who lied about the enemy, lied to our alies, lied to the military published a 12 year old PhD paper downloaded from a foreign University web site as British intelligence colluded with his Cabinet colleaugues to perpetuate the lies, lies to the UN and then committed crimes against humanity & war crimes based on lies?