Regulars round these parts know I’m not a fan of Tony Blair. I don’t think much of his record in office, though I do recognise his legacy was more complex than Iraq and neoliberalism with a smile. Nor was I too enamoured of his new year interventions, which were widely read as a pop at […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tony Blair’
Statement by a former Labour Leader on the death of a brutal dictator… breathtaking
Jan 23rd, 2015 by Jon Lansman.This statement was issued by the Tony Blair office today: I am very sad indeed to hear of the passing of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. I knew him well and admired him greatly. Despite the turmoil of events in the region around him, he remained a stable and sound ally, was […]
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Chilcot: Establishment writes its own rules to evade embarrassment
Jan 22nd, 2015 by Michael Meacher.The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war (March-April 2003, nearly 12 years ago) was set up in 2009 and took public evidence from its last witness in 2011. The announcement yesterday that the report after 6 years on inquiry is being strung out until after the election this May is truly scandalous. Cameron has tried […]
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Blair pays less tax as business continues to boom (for him)
Jan 9th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.Tony Blair (trading as Tony Blair Associates or TBA) suffered a in profits last year according to the accounts of some of the principal companies in his complex network of companies and partnerships he maintains, presumably to obscure his true ‘worth’ and earnings and to limit his tax liabilities. Profits of Windrush Ventures limited dropped from £2.8m to […]
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Blair had the wrong programme not the “wrong voters”
Jan 5th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Sorry to get snoring boring about Tony Blair once more, but I have to say a few words about the silly phrasing Neal Lawson used while penning a New Year’s message to the former Labour leader. The first rule of polemic is not to hand your opponent a shield that can parry your blows, and […]
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Tony Bloody Blair, again
Jan 2nd, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Like a grinning whack-a-mole, Tony Bloody Blair has popped up again with his ever-so-helpful pearls of wisdom. The groove hasn’t changed for 20 years. Centre ground, blah blah, too leftwing blah, don’t scare business. Someone pass me a mallet. In his Economist interview, he suggested that left/right battles are always won by the Conservatives. The not […]
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Government duplicity on torture from Blair to Cameron: eleven evasions
Dec 16th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The whole narrative of the UK government’s response to the brutal revelations of US rendition and torture at Guantanamo and ‘black sites’ spread across E. Europe, the Middle East and Asia has been one of subterfuge, deception and downright lying, in sharp contrast to the determination of the political class in the US to get […]
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Blair should be sacked from his post as Quartet Representative in the Middle East
Aug 29th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Following the latest example of Blair’s shameful support for brutal regimes in the Middle East, I have sent this letter to all four members of the Quartet – Ban Ki-moon at the UN, President Obama, President Putin, and President Barroso of the EU Commission: Dear Secretary-General, I write as a former Minister in the Blair […]
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The genocide of Christians is the legacy of Blair. Labour must learn the lessons
Aug 10th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The persecution of Christians in Iraq has become a genocide, say their religious leaders. The slaughter of the Yazidi and others by Isis militias is no different. And there is no doubt that the 2003 invasion of Iraq planned by Bush and Blair contributed to its current disintegration and the increasing disaster caused by Isis, as Blair’s […]
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Unravelling a century of imperialism in Iraq
Jun 23rd, 2014 by Jeremy Corbyn.William Hague has announced there will be no new British military involvement in Iraqand the PM himself gave a guarded answer when asked why he voted for the war in 2003 — something along the lines of, if I knew then what I know now things might be different. The massive media interest in the situation […]
