British prime minister Tony Blair finally announced that he will resign on June 27. How hopefully it all began ten years ago! The British were tired of John Major's Tory leadership and voted for change. Tony Blair promised to usher in a new era, the era of New Labour, socialist but modern. Blair went on to win two more elections, to become Bush's poodle and drag Great Britain into the illegal, genocidal and destructive Iraq War. The young, dynamic and promising man of ten years ago became a grizzled war criminal, spinning and lying to justify the unjustifiable and finally getting embroiled in corruption scandals.
The British people's hopes turned to cynicism. They will be happy to get rid of Tony Blair. He went from being one of the most popular British prime ministers to become one of the least popular. That is the legacy he is leaving.
Will his successor, Gordon Brown, do anything to forthwith end British involvement in the Iraq war? After all, Brown was part of the government which sent British boys and gals into losing battles in Afghanistan and Iraq and praised Blair's “unique achievement over 10 years and the unique leadership he had given to the party, Britain and the world”. Yeah, right... Britain will get more of the same and Britain deserves better.
Blair boosted about what he had achieved in Britain: “more jobs; fewer unemployed; better health and education results; lower crime; and economic growth in every quarter”. Even if that would indeed be true, if you go out to destroy another country, thousands of kilometers away, whatever achievements you may have in your own is worth nothing. The British ambassador to Washington once told the BBC's Matt Frei “that if he wanted to, the prime minister could veto this war”. Well, he didn't. And so he should be held responsible for the consequences.
And there is still the injustice that Blair will go on to write his memoirs, cashing in hundreds of thousands of pounds and perhaps live happily ever after, while the people of Iraq are still being murdered thanks to his policies. Tony Blair is a despicable war criminal. He should be brought to justice. Until he faces an international war crimes tribunal and is duly convicted for his immeasurable crimes against humanity, the Blair Era is not over yet.
While this war criminal basks in the limelight, a British judge sent a real hero, David Keogh, to jail. We'll come back to his story tomorrow, as villain Blair and hero Keogh shouldn't be mixed up in one story. The villains go free and the heroes end up in jail: what a wonderful world we live in...
“Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right,” Blair crowed. No, Blair, you were wrong, and not only wrong – you have oceans of blood on your hands. “I came into office with high hopes for Britain's future, and I leave it with even higher hopes for Britain's future,” he continued. With criminals like you at the helm, there is no future for Britain. Remember the lyrics of the Sex Pistols' song: “NO FUTURE, no future for you...” (CNN: Disillusionment after Blair decade) (The Independent: 27 June: Blair sets departure date)
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