05.10.07 11:40 AM CDT
• Politics
• Tim Mohr
A few days before Tony Blair announced he would step down on June 27, we talked to the Chemical Brothers. Asked about Gordon Brown, Blair’s presumed successor, they said, with little conviction, “good luck to him.” But for Americans who wonder why the British seem to hate Blair so much, Tom Rowlands gave an informative answer: “Tony Blair is always saying things like ‘I’ll tell you next week what I’m going to do.’ He’s like some crazed figure hidden behind a satin sheet—people just want to know when he’s going to go. Things have all gone a bit wrong.”From the standpoint of his own party loyalists, Blair not only disastrously botched foreign policy, but he also exacerbated all the feelings of ill-will both by dragging out his exit and by being so opaque about the particulars of it. No wonder there’s no love for Tony.
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