[QUOTE="Champ"] 1. The Telegraph: [URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/4061195/Tony-[/URL] Blair-Decade-of-economic-growth-was-luck.html 2. It was a joke. As even the Telegraph allows. [/QUOTE] I saw it and copied it into my 'Quotes' file from an American paper in 2008. I was reading it on the 'net' and they didn't say anything about it being a joke, just the usual things about inheriting a very strong economy in a period of world economic growth. I suppose one can draw ones own conclusions. I see from your link it was some one else ''a spokesman" who covered Blair's arse afterwards by saying "he had made a self-deprecating joke ". He doesn't make too many of those without a reason. He is too eloquent a speaker.