article_snippet: Mr Blair achieved 'very very little' in Mr Blair role as Middle East peace envoy and should withdraw from political activity in the region, a former senior British diplomat said last night.
article_snippet: Other critics branded Mr Blair role a 'fig leaf' and said Mr Blair role in Iraq War made it impossible for Mr Blair to do the job.
article_snippet: Mr Blair achieved little in his role as Middle East peace envoy and should withdraw from political activity in the region, a former British diplomat has said .
article_snippet: a former British diplomat said his role as Middle East peace envoy, as the representative of the Quartet of the UN, the EU, Russia and the US, was a 'convenient excuse for doing nothing' and that was what Mr Blair had achieved.
article_snippet: the job was, Mr Blair said, a 'convenient excuse for doing nothing'.
article_snippet: I think Mr Blair's not been able to do the job.
article_snippet: do the reason is simply that Mr Blair is a convenient excuse for doing nothing and that's been the case over the eight years that we've seen Mr Blair in that. '
article_snippet: the Quartet has not achieved anything and Mr Blair as the Quartet representative has achieved very, very little.'
article_snippet: Mr Blair effectiveness was ended almost as soon as Mr Blair was appointed when Mr Blair wasn't allowed to do the politics, Mr Blair was only allowed to do the economics of the Middle East peace process. '
article_snippet: Frankly the economics of the Middle East peace process was a waste of time, Mr Blair never had the mandate from the Quartet to achieve peace.'
article_snippet: Andrew Mackinlay, the former Labour MP and former member of the Foreign Affairs Committee said Mr Blair position was 'always a fig leaf'.
article_snippet: Mr Blair was disqualified from day one from fulfilling the role of peace envoy because of Iraq – which runs like a vein through all conflicts in the Middle East.'
article_snippet: Mr Blair has been ineffective in this job.
article_snippet: Mr Blair has no credibility in this part of the world.'
highlights_snippet: Oliver Miles said Mr Blair achieved 'very little' as Middle East Peace envoy .
  
highlights_snippet: The ex-ambassador to Libya said Mr Blair had 'not been able to do
highlights_snippet: the job'
  Critics said role in Iraq War made it impossible for Mr Blair to be peace envoy .