Tony Blair announces resignation: ITV News Special PAB: 11:40 - 12:42

Tony Blair announces resignation: ITV News Special PAB: 11:40 - 12:42; 12.13 Tony Blair speech contd SOT - putting the country first does not necessarily mean doing the right thing according to conventional wisdom or the prevailing consensus - it means doing what you genuinly believe to be right, that your duty as Prime Minister is to act according to your conviction/ all of that can get contorted so that people think you act according to some messianic zeal/ doubt, hesitation, reflection, consideration - these are all the good companions of proper decision making, but the ultimate obligation is to decide/ sometimes decisionare accepted quite quickly: Bank of England independence was one; some issues like tuition fees or trying to break up old monolithic public services, the changes are deeply controversial, hellish hard to do, but you can see we are moving with the grain of change around the world/ sometimes like with Europe, were I believe Britain should keep its position strong, you know you are fighting opinion but you are kind of content with doing so/ sometimes, as with the completely unexpected, you are alone with your own instinct/ in Sierra Leone and to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I took the decision to make our country one that intervened, that did not pass by/ then came the utterly unanticipated and dramatic - September 11th 2001- I decided we should stand shoulder to shoulder with our oldest ally, and I did so out of belief/ and so Afghanistan and then Iraq, the latter bitterly controversial/ removing Saddam and Taliban was over with relative ease/ blowback since from global terrorism has been fierce, unrelenting and costly/ for many, it simply isn't and can't be worth it/ for me, we must see it through - the terrorists here and around the world will never give up/ it is a test of will and belief and we can't fail it
Tony Blair announces resignation: ITV News Special PAB: 11:40 - 12:42; 12.13 Tony Blair speech contd SOT - putting the country first does not necessarily mean doing the right thing according to conventional wisdom or the prevailing consensus - it means doing what you genuinly believe to be right, that your duty as Prime Minister is to act according to your conviction/ all of that can get contorted so that people think you act according to some messianic zeal/ doubt, hesitation, reflection, consideration - these are all the good companions of proper decision making, but the ultimate obligation is to decide/ sometimes decisionare accepted quite quickly: Bank of England independence was one; some issues like tuition fees or trying to break up old monolithic public services, the changes are deeply controversial, hellish hard to do, but you can see we are moving with the grain of change around the world/ sometimes like with Europe, were I believe Britain should keep its position strong, you know you are fighting opinion but you are kind of content with doing so/ sometimes, as with the completely unexpected, you are alone with your own instinct/ in Sierra Leone and to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I took the decision to make our country one that intervened, that did not pass by/ then came the utterly unanticipated and dramatic - September 11th 2001- I decided we should stand shoulder to shoulder with our oldest ally, and I did so out of belief/ and so Afghanistan and then Iraq, the latter bitterly controversial/ removing Saddam and Taliban was over with relative ease/ blowback since from global terrorism has been fierce, unrelenting and costly/ for many, it simply isn't and can't be worth it/ for me, we must see it through - the terrorists here and around the world will never give up/ it is a test of will and belief and we can't fail it
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