Tony Blair's Enthusiasm for Debate

The bloke is an total coward. Tory and LibDem should boycott the debate given Bliars attitude. We are not going to learn anything from Ken Dodds mum and other Bliar apologists. He says he will make a statement later, is this not a clear indication that he can no longer govern and is deferring everything to extend his own tenure.

After Hain's cowardice of last week the PM must appear at this debate or stand down. If we know that his government ministers dont believe in the war and never have then how are any answers they give be taken seriously? "In your judgement Minister will the latest strategy be successful?" To think this shameful dance of political death prolongs our troops exposure to risk should serve as evidence enough to order them home now.

If he will not attend then the Tory's have no choice but to withdraw support for the war. Parliament is in danger of dereliction of duty itself if it does not start to use all its powers to hold this government to account.

They should start by denouncing the blatantly conflicted and untrustworthy Goldsmith's decison to intefere in CPS decisions over CFH. If Falconer and he cannot agree then they should both step aside and let an independent entity decide.

Some hope.

I heartily agree that the opposition parties should boycott this debate if the poodle cannot be bothered to attend it.
Imagine NuLabor trying to spin their way out of that one. With pictures of an empty parliament playing in the background.
Also all "pairing" agrements MPs should be suspended until the poodle faces up to parliamentary scrutiny.

The post Cold War threat is now clear. The world has changed again. We must change with it.

What is this threat he sees with such clarity? Has the world changed? Must we change again? Into what?

What an odious piece of shit Blair is. Why attend a debate, when the fucker wouldn't attend the bedside of an injured soldier or stand at the grave of a dead one?

Yes, the Charlatan is acting as though parliament is irrelevant (which latest moves by the Attorney General etc have made a reality), but there should not be a boycott of the Iraq debate. Instead, the opposition should make it starkly clear that if he doesn't attend they will call for a vote of no confidence. That should get the bugger into the House.

Beyond pathetic.

Like many middle class people I came to Socialism through Marxism.
(pretentious twat)

The Tory Party is now increasingly given over to the worst of petty bourgeois sentiment. (not like the above then)

The phrases that rouse us or should rouse us, are bound to seem stale in the mouth of anyone who has been too closely intertwined with the establishment.(yup)

When I fought the Kosovo war, which was the first military engagement of a considerable size I took as Prime Minister.
(what a hero)

I know too that this was real war, this wasn't the pretend stuff that happens in films, it was real war with real bloodshed and real casualties. (must be the scariest thing he has ever said?)

And then reflect on this: how hollow would the charges of American imperialism be when these failed countries are and are seen to be transformed from states of terror to nations of prosperity, from governments of dictatorship to examples of democracy, from sources of instability to beacons of calm. (how hollow indeed)

So far as our objective, it is disarmament, not regime change - that is our objective.(with guns)

The banner was not actually "regime change" it was "values change".(with guns)

The moment we decided not to change regime but to change the value system.(with guns)

Rightly, in my view, we realised that you can't defeat a fanatical ideology just by imprisoning or killing its leaders; you have to defeat its ideas.(with guns and gallows)

Sep 2002

Bush: Well, as you know, our government in 1998 -- action that my administration has embraced -- decided that this regime was not going to honor its commitments to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. The Clinton administration supported regime change. Many members of the United States Senate supported regime change. My administration still supports regime change. There's all kinds of ways to change regimes. (yeah, lots)

The world has changed

Indeed, it has. Whereas Britain's government was good at one time, now it is the enemy.

Is it not that the ruling classes have always expected subservience from their subjects?

Do the ruling classes not have many mechanisms and schemes at their disposal for keeping the majority compliant?

Are their ceremonies not surrounded with great mystery, pomp and exclusive rites and rituals of their making, for our consumption?

Are we not now more aware than ever before in the history of humankind of those that take our birthright?

Do they sense the change that is coming???