{"id":1279,"date":"2007-06-27T23:57:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2009-04-29T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:47:47","slug":"1274-of-and-thus-end-the-third-wayer-era-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"[1274] Of and thus end the third way era for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair, whom along with Bill Clinton, the backbone of the third wayers of the 90s, has resigned from the UK premiership:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Labour leader Gordon Brown is the UK&#8217;s new prime minister after being asked to form a government by the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Posing outside No 10 with wife Sarah, the man who has been Tony Blair&#8217;s chancellor for the past 10 years, said: &#8220;Let the work of change begin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said his priorities were education, health and restoring trust in politics. He promised he would &#8220;try my utmost&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing PM Blair had earlier received an emotional and unprecedented standing ovation from MPs as he left Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time in 17 years a UK prime minister has entered office without a general election. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/6245682.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Brown is UK&#8217;s new prime minister<\/em><\/a>. BBC News. June 27 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I may not agree with the radical centrists but Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, in my humble opinion, are great leaders that I will sorely miss. They may have done mistakes but they have done enough good for me to remember them. This is an end of an era.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Public domain. National Archives and Records Administration. United States.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070627BlairClinton.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Public domain. National Archives and Records Administration. United States.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, Mr. Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair, whom along with Bill Clinton, the backbone of the third wayers of the 90s, has resigned from the UK premiership: Labour leader Gordon Brown is the UK&#8217;s new prime minister after being asked to form a government by the Queen. Posing outside No 10 with wife Sarah, the man who has been Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[637,638,636,639],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-bill-clinton","tag-third-way","tag-tony-blair","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}