Blair's legacy - hundreds of thousands of decent Brits living abroad. I write this from Southern Turkey surrounded by many, many disillusioned and disheartened UK subjects. The same applies to Spain, France, Italy etc etc. We're moving out as the rest of the world moves in. Good luck to you all in UK - you're welcome to it.

Tippett, Fethiye, Turkey

What a sad, sad man Blair is he is so delusional as to be dangerous. Just Go!1

maureen, hoddesdon, herts

Blair is an Evil man in truth;he can see no wrong in the ruin he has brought on this country. He is the WORST Prime Minister ever. One day all this will come back to haunt him;I hope I'm alive to see it.

Michael J Rigby, Blackburn, England

Iraq, Crime, Constitutional Reform of House of Lords , Scottish and Welsh Devolution, Pensions, Education, Taxation, Foot & Mouth, English Farmers Single Payments, Civil Liberties, Gold Reserve Sales, Home Improvememt Packs, NHS, Britain's EU rebate, Political Integrity, Defence procurement, Immigration...
Tony Blair and his government have made a complete mess of all of the above. They did however do one good thing - the removal of betting tax. Not much to show for 10 years power with a whacking majority a largely supine and spineless BBC and press.

Pete , chester, England

While the scandals and the lies and the cover-ups are too numerous to mention, for me his "legacy" will be him letting mass murderers out of jail if they promise not to murder again and, of course, God telling him and his new best friend that invading Iraq was the right thing to do....although funnily enough they had to lie to justify it.

TERRY FREEMAN, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND

i am baffled as to how according to polls there are still 30% of the electorate daft enough to support Bliar and his policies.

Charley Farley, kettering, england

Really achievers tend to be self effacing, confident that what they have done will be appreciated and approved of by others - if not immediately, then in the future. That is what a legacy means. Anyone who feels it necessary to shout out 'Look what I've done', has probably not done very much - and is well aware of it.

Tony Jones, Grantham, UK

Ah yes! whereas rappers and pop artists can do little else than blow their own trumpet, the face of politics fights to the last to put back the 'Great' in Britain. (Weren't those his very words when he was elected?) And do I not detect an uneasiness about it all? It would appear that greatness seems to be sorely missed when megalomaniac egotists feel the need to publish their own 'factual' accomplishments, a list from 1 to how many?--and only while he still has the nation listening to him as their number 1.
It is a little late for uneasiness when the repercussions of his legacy will be felt long after his name will be uttered, even thought of, by anyone at all--that is, if the world lasts that long.
Another triumph for hollow, meaningless rhetoric; another nail in the coffin for the human race!

John, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2.5 milion nearly 40% of that is public sector workers looking after the red tape and watching over us! Not real work. That is leaving the UK because of the red tape. If the old voting system hadnt safe labour from a loss last time we would have have had to suffer more pain under this givernment

H J M, Southampton,

It is sickening that the ONLy thing that bothers Blair is his "legacy " and how he will be viewed in History. I will remember him only for the way he and his cronies have ruined my beautiful country by losing control of everything - immigration, law and order, foreign policy etc etc...
No wonder Brits are leaving in droves!

Pam Matthews, Milton Keynes, UK

This man talks with his head above the clouds surrounded by the sunshine of self deception. Fortunately the rest of us are on the ground; well aware of the catastrophic errors he has perpetrated in the mal-management of our country.
Never in our political history has one man promised so much yet achieved so litte.
He has divided us as a nation, used our resources for his own personal political ends, toadied to world leaders instead of concentrating on home affairs, exercised inept leadership over his cabinet, allowed our gold reserves to be sold at knockdown prices, stolen national pension reserves and established us as a pariah nation in the world..
Goodbye and good riddance.
reduced the standing of our country

trevorjd, Torbay, Devon

Since the election in May 1997, working-age employment has risen by 2.1m in the UK. Almost all this increase can be attributed to a rising population, in large measure because of higher immigration (2 million legal immigrants?).

Where does the Prime Minsiter get 2.5 million from? Would he care to break his figures down more clearly?

jj, Cambridgeshire, UK

I would advise Tony to perhaps obfuscate issues such as Iraq and immigration, and focus on some of the other 'top 50 achievements' listed on the Labour Party website. I personally like 'free fruit for 4-6 year olds at school'. Ten years of radical government and this is a top 50 achievement. NEXT!

Rupert, London,

well done tony.
but have you forgot to mention the thousands of people
which have lost their jobs because they have been exported
to china, and the loss of our farming industry because your
goverment could not set a price on milk,the thousands of small business that lose out because you would not stop
giant supermarkets taking over rural communities and towns and the tax burden of the whole population which
have generously supported new labour need we say more.
and I bet your pensions safe.ps looking forward to the book. it make great reading .

george william taylor, hull, uk

Blair's legacy is that he fooled so many naive people into voting for him, betrayed and ruined his country, made us a laughing stock around the world, made us a soft touch for immigrants, has began implanting a police state, made lies an automatic assumption against politicians and much more. We should have a public holiday when he retires.

Wayne Morris, Port Talbot, Great Britain

As with anything, there is a need to view his achievements in the round; and many are real and trenchant changes. However, he has also presided over a period of growing (and perhaps justified) cynicism, the diminuition of British prestige and power, a series of half-baked, and half-finished constitutional reforms, profound and worrying changes in the administration of justice, and has not have achieved as much as he should have done on the domestic agenda. When a man feels the need to justify himself on paper, you can be sure people are not listening to him any more.

David Marusza, Cardiff, Wales

Huge, gigantic, tax take increase by labour government has brought no benefits. The more tax money they throw at the Helath Service, the more money they waste. Pensioners tax payments have increased substantially, because low earners can no longer claim back the tax paid on share dividend income. That was stopped by the present labour government. Council tax is gigantic, and forces retirees out of the family home. No wonder I emmigrated to Australia.

steve fisher, glasgow , scotland

Less people voted for Bliar's Party than all other parties and even losing scores of seats at the last General election was not enough to remove this man from 10 years of misrule. And WE call that Democracy? Who are we to tell any other Country how to run their affairs. The British people have had the Thatcher and Bliar years of misrule, so don't you think it time we changed to PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION in the National and Local Parliaments/Councils.Labour will get decimated at the next Local and General election because Gordon Brown is more of the same,but who do we have as an alternative choice? Tweedledee?

Giles Wynne, Lincoln, UK

Go, Blair Go,

The worst and most dangerous Prime Minister this Country has known.
The Americans had Benedict Arnold, we, unfortunately, had you.

You ought to be deeply ashamed.

Michael, London,

No Mention of Iraq, or the fact that Brown voted for war too.

Blair, i think is a man with a good heart, but like anyone, the time comes when you have to throw in the towel.

What concerns me more, is his legacy, coronating a chancellor who is as unpopular, some might argue in relation to the latest polls, more unpopular than Blair.

This is extremely worrying for the state of the UK, and i'm not happy in the slightest. If there was a contest, and a proper one at that, i'd feel more comfortable, but the idea that Lenin hands over to Stalin, worries me.

Geoff Turner, Ealing.,

The longest period of growth referred to began in 1991 and the period between 1997 and 1999 was when Labour had to run with their promise to follow Conservative spending plans. So 9 years of this growth is down to Conservative management and only 8 years from and including 2000 is down to Labour management. So let us all be clear on the spin.

Kathleen, Hemel Hempstead, Herts

No mention of Iraq? This world wide disaster for western - and other - interests (not to speak of the hapless Iraqis) is, of course, Blair's legacy. He could almost certanly have stopped or at least delayed this Bush fiasco (which was widely forseen by experts within and without both US and UK geovernments - we being one of them) by insisting on a second resolution.

John Pedler, Sarlat, France

Congratulations Tony, I wonder how may of the 2.5 million more in work are cheap immigrant labour?

Sandy, Lisburn, UK

Twenty four pages of Blair's finest ,unadulterated self-serving twaddle, no doubt with instructions to Labour MPs to 'memorise the lies' and regurgitate during the forthcoming local elections.
Truth is of course a lot less palatable than the fiction which Blair serves up. The United Kingdom has not been so divided for 300 years, we are at/near the bottom of several league tables such as the recent UNICEF report on children; the breakdown across society is horrendous, NHS targets are all fudged; the list of failures is endless.
Blair's new Labour will have left behind a legacy which historians will find almost unparalled in the level of decline.

Rick, London, England

His self delusion is apparent to everyone .To see him leave will be enough for me,we can then "draw a line" under him and move on to
better things.In my humble opinion his only achievement is taxing my car on the internet.

mitch, wolverhampton, england

His legacy is the moral destruction of the UK in the eyse of the rest of the world. The destruction of democracy in the Uk, with devoved pwer given to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; leading to a disparity ii the English having no say on English matters. The destruction of the NHS, though billions of extra pounds have been sunk into it.
The dumbing down of education; to ensure more people appear cleverer than they really are. Crime increased.
Moral decay of the country through irelaxed regulations increasing drunkeness, drug taking. The ever dwindling civil liberties of the people, provoked by civil liberties for the individual. Terrorism; through the debatable legality of the war in Europe. Mass immigration increasing the despondency of our young people and their inability to get gainful employment. 25% of young people are unemployed and unlikely to be in full time work in their lifetime.
The starvation of funds for our armed forces. etc.etc
A good legacy for spin, deceit

Michael John Butcher, WsM, England

Lessons "learned", lines drawn in the sand and they all move on.
The rest is cojones.

Tricia, E Sussex, UK