Workingman wrote:What they should not be allowed to do, especially in Blair's case, is to make pronouncements on today's politics, and be given the oxygen of publicity by the media to do so.
This has always puzzled me. Yes, Tony Blair should just get back under his rock and stay there; but why was he always given such an easy ride by TV interviewers? Why was he never pressed to give details when he just came out with meaningless slogans?
In cricketing terms, he was always given a series of slow full tosses down the leg side. Why?
He was at it again in the papers the other day, calling UKIP "nasty and unpleasant" and saying that they did "not have the answers for the 21st century".
OK then, are UKIP so nasty that they would launch an illegal war on Iraq and leave hundreds of thousands dead and maimed? He wasn't asked.
What are the problems of the 21st century then, and what are the solutions? Again, his empty slogan went unchallenged.