During Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Mr Blair appeared to not know that Mr Michael had quit as Tory leader William Hague demanded that he should stop interfering in the Welsh Assembly.
East Belfast Progressive Unionist assembly member David Ervine said it was time to stop being sentimental about the shipyard and let it close if it was not a viable operation.
No longer do workers have to stop and pick through bins and racks of parts next to the assembly line, a process that at times has seemed like sorting the screws in an Ikea chair.
Wrexham councillor Arfon Jones petitioned the assembly last year calling for an exclusion zone that would also stop takeaway vans trading near schools.
The ban was introduced by former Labour Welsh Secretary Peter Hain to stop candidates rejected by voters in constituency polls from being elected to the assembly by also standing for list seats.