Blair, Just Go Already!

Bush and Blair reaffirm alliance

Tony Blair and George W Bush have reasserted the strong links between the United States and Britain.

The British prime minister is on a final trip to Washington before stepping down at the end of June.

The two leaders have been close allies over the past six years, and praised each other's record.

Mr Bush called the British PM "a clear, strategic thinker". Mr Blair said the US president had been "unyielding, unflinching and determined".

I love this quote from a MP backbencher who was a vocal opponent of the war, he was a panelist on Have I Got News For You, a current affair quiz/comedy show with Paul Merton and Ian Hislop (editor of Private Eye), each week there is a guest presenter.

"I don't care if he goes down in history as a combination of Florence Nightingale and Alexander the Great, just so long as he stuffs off"