Statue of Tony Blair, where should it stand?

[firecracker]

I don,t think it would go down too well with the anti war protesters it would probably get smashed up by them if not them theres plenty of other societies around who are baying for blairs blood, surely theres better ideas for statues in sheffield than a two bit snob who gets paid too much, what about having 2 statues of footballers one from each sheffield team ,have a poll on the favourate ever player for both the sheffield teams,

something what actually means something to true sheffield familys.

Gets paid too much? He probably gets paid no more than a typical player at Hillsbrough, and considerably less than those at Bramall Lane. He's only on around £190,000 a year - hardly a fortune for a Prime Minister. Did you think he gets paid a million a year - because he would have been if Prime Minister's salaries had kept in line with inflation since the days of the Duke of Wellington.

[phawley]

Gets paid too much? He's only on around £190,000 a year - .

 

And that's £150,000 too much!!!

[DaFoot]

Not a huge salary for the pressure...however it *is* a good salary.

No doubt there are plenty of perks/benefits (eg loan of celebrity houses for holidays... car etc) and he can afford an accountant that can be 'imaginative' to ensure he gets every penny.

 

I wouldn't want to see the PM salary go up much. Hopefully that way people go for the PM role for the job rather than the money.

[MickeyBarnes]

I think he earns every penny.

 

He's on call 24/7

I doubt he works less than a 16 hour day

Rarely has a day off

and not to mention the constant stress he must contend with - and it must be stressful - anyone who looks at a picture at the start of his reign and look at one now can easily see the strain the years have taken upon him.

[Zebra]

It would look rather good at the bottom of the sea, the fish would like it!

[StarSparkle]

Let me have a suggestion - how about a bronze statue with a brass neck of Mrs Thatcher instead, with one foot on a miner's helmet and a dole queue behind (and underneath) the other foot, with a plaque detailing her record - mass unemployment, crime doubling, repossessions running through the roof, negative equity - and we did have the Falklands War which resulted in the deaths of 260 service personnel - still around 80 more than Iraq and Afghanistan combined, with a pocket calculator in the hand without the handbag as a tribute to the fact that she didn't seem to know which year came 150 years after the Falklands became British in 1833 (Galtieri had promised his people that British rule wouldn't last 150 years on the Falklands - meaning an invasion before 1983), which begs the question "Why wasn't the Argentinian invasion prevented in the first place?" Perhaps with this reminder in every town and city throughout the land, the ungrateful amongst us might show a bit more appreciation of Blair.

 

Very well said - apart from the bit about Blair.

 

I like the irony of that idea - a statue of Thatcher as a monument to Truth, which would illustrate the reality of the Thatcher years, and be some sort of defence against the revisionism that seems to be going on currently, trying to completely rewrite the history of those years.

 

StarSparkle

[bern67]

outside the whitehouse USA

[expitlad]

So I presume there'll be yet another stealth tax to pay for it.

Remember, an anagram of TONY BLAIR MP is

I'M TORY PLAN B

[StarSparkle]

outside the whitehouse USA

 

They won't know who he is there in a year or two, if they know now...

 

Just another pet of the Bushes...

 

StarSparkle

[mifsit]

outside the whitehouse USA

just under the GW Bush statue, looking upwards lovingly I presume