I've got to tell you, next time France comes under attack or invasion, I think we and the Brits need to just mine the English Channel and let THEM handle it.
Just the facts please.
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Iraq War Haunts British Labor Party in Local Polls
Tom Rivers
London
12 Jun 2004, 16:17 UTC
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's leadership is again being called into question after his Labor party suffered losses in local council elections in England and Wales.
Prime Minister Blair's decision to take Britain to war in
Iraq is seen as a key factor in the elections.
For the first time in decades, the Labor Party slipped to third place in Thursday's local elections, behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged his decision to join the United States in a war against Saddam Hussein has cost his party votes. But he says his decision was right.
"I think it's a question of holding our nerve and seeing it through and realizing, yes, Iraq has been an immensely difficult decision, but we've got to turn that around and seeing it through," he said.
Labor member of parliament and former Defense Minister Peter Kilfoyle says the message from the voters is clear.
"I suspect that more of our supporters stayed away, despite the raised turnout," Mr. Kilfoyle said. "I think that there were people who were making a conscious decision very often to vote against the government on the Iraq war, but on what they see as the increased estrangement, the disengagement, of the government from their concerns."
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