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Poll: Blair fails to improve Britain(Xinhua)Updated: 2007-04-08 18:30 A poll conducted by the Observer newspaper showed on Sunday that people believe British Prime Minister Tony Blair has failed to improve the country and lost the faith of British voters over his 10 years in power. Blair is widely expected to quit in June or July after a decade in office. However there is not much cheer for him. The poll of 2,034 adults showed that many people find the country is a more dangerous, less happy and less pleasant place to live. The poll invited people's opinions ranging from their trust in politics, how they feel about their own lives to whether public services have been improved. However, people gave negative responses to almost all of its 40 questions. Only over a quarter rated the government's general performance under Blair as good or very good. Sixty-one percent disagreed that Britain was "a more pleasant place to live" now than in 1997, and 58 percent disagreed that it was happier, while 69 percent said it was more dangerous, the poll showed. The poll also showed that 57 percent think Blair has stayed in office too long. With regard to education, 45 percent rated the government's performance as poor or very poor, while 60 percent said the same about transport. |
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