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My Tony is as great as Winston - Cherie
01.10.08
Cherie Blair has compared husband Tony to Sir Winston Churchill. She said the former prime minister would be judged 'very well' by history.
Comparing him to the wartime leader - voted the Greatest Briton of all time in a BBC poll - Mrs Blair said: 'He'll be up there with Churchill.'
But she said of her own image as a First Lady: 'Just look at the press cuttings, you couldn't say that it was a triumph, could you!'
Mrs Blair also insisted she agreed with her husband's stance over the war in Iraq. 'I did not know all the information, but I trusted Tony to make the right decision,' she said in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.
Mrs Blair found herself shouted down yesterday at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference when she insisted that the Human Rights Act was 'part of the solution' to crime.
Reader views (22)
The office of 'First Lady' seemed to start with Cherie sticking her grinning great face in and - hopefully - ended as Blair took the cash and ran. We don't have a First Lady (except for Mrs Thatcher, naturally). And as for Blair being like Churchill ..... as the other Churchill on the insurance advert says "Oh, No, no ...."
- Paul, London
Those poor kids! Fancy having the Mouth of the Mersey as a mother and a lying warmonger for a father. It's a good job the parents will both die millionaires, otherwise the Blair Brats wouldn't stand a chance in the real world.
- Lezli Taubler, London/UK
Cherie wasn't born when Chrchill was around so she only has second hand information from socialists. I was here for Churchhill and her husband and there's no competition. Blair is a weakling by comparison and not in the same class. Churchill didn't give the country away to immigrants.
- Frank, England.
glad to see the back of him
- Tony, london
We all know Tony thought he was Moses, so did Jim Callaghan.
Cherie's role should have been to stand on the chariot and whisper "all glory is fleeting" not fall for the PR.
- Michael, brightlingsea england
yes for war crimes
- Imlost, london
On one thing only do I agree with Jerry Adams. He pronounced 'Tony Blair' as 'Tony Blur'
Cherie must live on Planet Uranus.
- David, East Grinstead
As they say, "Love is blind"
Churchill was a man of his times and rose to the occasion when called upon to do so. Tony Blair was also a man of his times - and when he could, descended to the depths of political opportunism, chicanery, outright deception, and ultimately, the sell out of his country to the European super-state (which happens to be predominantly socialist).
Sure. The comparison is obvious.
Kinda, sorta...
- Rogan, DFW TX
The wonderful thing is we don't have to watch or listen to her anymore because her husband, and therefore her, are no longer part of our political landscape.
I also thought she said that she wouldn't miss the journalists when she left no.10?
Just another lie I guess.
- Grace, Scotland
Dreadful woman! As for her husband, he will be remembered for all the wrong reasons - leading us into the war in Iraq ... NHS and education in a mess ... A dentist for every child - I DON'T THINK SO - you can't find any NHS dentists around here and the list goes on. He was an out-and-out liar about so many things and as for all the expensive gifts and free holidays they accepted, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Obviously they completely forgot they are supposed to be LABOUR!
- Sixtysomething, North Yorkshire
Churchill was a war-monger too, so is reasonably apt.
- Arthur Pantry, London, England
Thanks Cherie! You've finally dispelled the myth that you are a humourless charlatan. That has got to be the funniest statement I've heard all day.
- Nobby Clark, Perth, Scotland
The woman is as deluded as she is unpleasant.
Her husband will be remembered all right, but not in the way she imagines in her cosy little multimillionaire's world - but as a warmonger, a traitor, the architect of the fall of Great Britain, leaving with his final two-fingered salute to the raped populace - 'I leave you Clown Brown to complete the destruction - I'm off to count my money'.
- 45govt, Barbados
Tony as great as Churchill? My God. But as it is being said by someone inconsequential, we can ignore it.
- Naomi Sajeri, Manchester
Three words for you Cherie....How dare you.
Kyle
London
- Kyle Annakin, London
Billy Liar is a cretin and not fit to polish Churchills boots.
- James, New Malden, Surrey
Awful awful woman.... we should be thankful that we no longer have to put up with her as our 'First Lady'.
- Sharon, London
She really has lost it hasn't she?
- Fred, Horsham
Right'O Cheery Dear. Dream on.
By the way what was the name Churchill's wife? I can't remember!!
- Frank, Home Counties, England.
No Cherie, he's not. Not by a very long way. And if he had made a better job of 'Education, education, education' whilst he was Prime Minster then a more through knowledge of Churchill's achievements as well as that of other recent prime ministers might put your Tony's attainments into historical perspective.
- Peter Haldane, London
Ha ha. She is joking, right?
Blair will go down as one of the worst PMs this country has every had.
- Bruce, London
He should be up there with Mussolini - swinging from a lamppost for the way he has betrayed this country.
- Squiz, Islington
