Vote!
Should Tony Blair get a state funeral?
- 21% are saying yes
- 79% are saying no
comments from readers
- Carl Jones
15 July 2008 - yes
Yes: but onlyafter his execution for treason and war crimes.LOL
- blonde
15 July 2008 - no
Tony Blair should be bury in America or europe he had no interest in being in Britian or helping the english so let some other country pay for his furneral.
- nawawimohamad
16 July 2008 - no
After contributing to the wars and invasions staged by the US resulting in so many deaths? No definitely NO!
- Fridoun
16 July 2008 - no
No
He was a conservative with new labor mask. Most of his bills was passed by conservative MPs - swatantra nandanwar
16 July 2008 - no
Definitely not. His naivity over Iraq and Agfghanistan has conntributed to the instability in the world, and will not be forgotten easily, and has left its impact on the Labour Party and Britain for a whole generation.
- ThatcherLover
16 July 2008 - no
definately not. what the hell has he done to deserve a state funeral?
why dont you run another poll ..... Should the likes of Noel Edmonds get a state funeral? - Gerishnakov
16 July 2008 - no
Neither should Thatcher.
- EnzoF1
16 July 2008 - no
Quote "Carl Jones
15 July 2008
yes
Yes: but onlyafter his execution for treason and war crimes.LOL"Sadly, all of our prime ministers in the last 30 years have commited treason by letting a foreign power efectively take 'over our' nation by making most of our laws.
I wonder what all of the solders who died in the two world wars to protect our freedom would think if they saw how we have willingly given it away to the EU(SSR)? - redharry
17 July 2008 - no
But I could change my mind if it was brought forward to next week. What a shame he didn't go to Gaza.
- Cybertiger
17 July 2008 - no
… unless Cherie can be persuaded to throw herself onto his funeral pyre … and the taxpayer can get two Blairs for the price of one.
- Abdul Alhazred
17 July 2008 - no
Didn't know he was dead. Whoopee!
- kewldavey
17 July 2008 - no
Not unless we can bury him alive with Thatcher... could call it fiscal responsibility.
- bethemedia
17 July 2008 - no
equally abhorrent to the idea of thatcher getting one.
- steffaction
18 July 2008 - yes
as soon as possible
- Suzuki1200
18 July 2008 - no
The 100's of 1,000's of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan abused and killed by British forces will not get a state funeral so why should Tony Blair? Incase anyone has forgotten, Blair took Britian into an illegal war recently and he could be tried as a War Criminal.
- eric asava
18 July 2008 - no
no as soon as posible
- Clive
18 July 2008 - no
The Liar incarnate - Push both him and Brown into cesspits!
- Toff
18 July 2008 - no
Posterity will ne'er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Tory Blair !:
Stop, traveller, and p----- !With apologies to Byron
- Mark Graham
18 July 2008 - no
Hundreds of thousands of Britons may have died under Churchill's leadership, but at least his war was legitimate, just and inarguably necessary. There is no comparison with Blair, whose reckless warmongering has bequeathed a terrible legacy, not just in the Gulf but also on the streets of our tense and culturally segregated towns and cities.
Mark Graham, Bedford - Nick Good
18 July 2008 - no
the only potentially lasting impact of Blair was his underming on the fabric of the UK's constitution... hardly something to celebrate: 10 wasted years..
- Jillbob
18 July 2008 - no
But he deserves one more than Thatcher does.
- Nigel in Manchester
18 July 2008 - no
Should be reserved for genuine heroes only. Arthur Scargill is a Great Gallant Loser, and therefore quintessentially British.
- suell
18 July 2008 - no
Why on earth would he 'deserve' one?
Sue Lloyd
- gnuneo
18 July 2008 - no
not from us anyway.
i can see the iraqis being happy to offer him one though.
- willoyen
18 July 2008 - no
I am surprised that as many as 21% are saying "yes". god help the world!
- kenners
18 July 2008 - yes
Ofcourse he was the first Labour Leader to win 3 GEs!
He also achieve peace in NI and delivered important civil and human rights changes
- OSKIES
19 July 2008 - no
WHY????????????????
- josephmcaslin
19 July 2008 - no
Only if he and his wife could make some money from this.
- shottian
20 July 2008 - no
I have no objection if it's held in the US with due military parade.
- gelly
20 July 2008 - no
god may never forgive us the man who wanted to be king may be we could put him on iam a celeb get me out of hear let the people say then
- Broga
20 July 2008 - yes
No. Unless the following conditions were met: 1. all arrangements to be made be the National Secular Society whose representative would deliver the eulogy; 2. all accommodation costs to be met from the Blair Estate 3. excerpts from Blair speeches, including the "dodgy document", where he assured parliament and the country that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction which could be launched within 40 minutes: this to be read by a close relative of a member of the Armed Forced killed in Iraq.
- gedh2
20 July 2008 - no
Surely the last thing his family would need is a funeral generating such resentment and objection as to leave no one in any doubt that as a leader he was neither liked no respected by many.
- imprudence
21 July 2008 - no
No, it would just be a waste of money as the chances are that on the third day he would just rise again.
Andy - William
21 July 2008 - no
Under EU proposals, Britain as an Nation state will cease to exist by then.
21 July 2008- no
No - it's time to end such nonsense, no-one, the Queen included justifies the waste of money and time!
Alan Briggs
- phantom
21 July 2008 - no
No! He should be buried in an unmarrked grave in the grounds of the prison where he should serve a lifelong sentence for war crimes
- Frank Amies
21 July 2008 - yes
Yes, and as soon as possible
- Pierre
22 July 2008 - yes
And a statue with the following inscription,
I lied, I lied, I lied
- npgdavies
22 July 2008 - no
He left office with no credit.
He took us into a war on false premises. He left his office in disgrace - no arms
24 July 2008 - yes
dead or alive!
