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 sent by Tim Murphy - Jun 24, 2007 
  
  
 The UK, the war, Tory b'Liar and the Roman Catholic Church 
  
 The political sacking and religious conversion of British 
 Prime Minister Tony Blair. 
  
 By Tim Murphy 
 23rd June 2007 
  
 Tony Blair has basically been sacked as the Prime Minister by the UK's 
 governing Labour Party due to the appalling blood soaked chaos of the 
 illegal war conducted by the USA and the UK against the people of Iraq. 
 The war is now escalating and in it's fifth year without any prospect 
 of peace. There is a serious risk that the conflict will spread 
 regionally and possibly beyond. 
  
 The failure of the war is not only because of the way it was 
 instigated, as an illegal act, unsupported by the UN and international 
 law but there has also been a clear failure in the declared objectives 
 of the war. The war has not brought about the official war aims; the 
 discovery of WMD, peace, stability, reconstruction, security, freedom 
 from oppression or democracy. The greatest failure and irony is that 
 Iraqis were actually much better off under the brutal dictatorship of 
 that well known former CIA assassin and long time US agent Saddam 
 Hussein. 
  
 The Iraq war has increased the suffering of the Iraqi people beyond 
 imagination and further endangers surrounding nations. Terrorism has 
 increased dramatically and the recruitment and training of new 
 terrorists is growing apace. Regionally peace is further away than ever 
 and Israel is still illegally expanding, confiscating Palestinian land, 
 demolishing homes and continually ethnically cleansing and killing the 
 Palestinians with impunity. As a direct result of the methods used to 
 prosecute the war, kidnapping and torture are now standard operating 
 procedures employed by several of the leading nations of the world. 
 Thousand year old civil liberties have been all but abolished and we 
 now live in something approaching a global police state. 
  
 Mr. Vanity Blair however, thinks he should still be Prime Minister even 
 of it ruins his party's chances of winning the next election. Apart from 
 prosecuting the illegal war, Blair's main goal in recent years was not 
 so much to secure the future electability of New Labour or even the 
 national security and general economic welfare of the British nation. 
 His objective has been to stay in office for longer than Margaret 
 Thatcher, with whom he likes to be compared and who reigned for eleven 
 dreadful and strife filled years. To be exact Thatcher was in power for 
 eleven and a half years, which are generally remembered with a cold 
 shudder by most British people when they can even bear to think about 
 those times. It was an era during which we lost many of our hard won 
 social rights and saw the quality of our public and social services 
 decline dramatically. 
  
 Under Thatcher, nationally speaking we saw poverty double and even 
 triple and quadruple in some areas of the country. There are whole 
 regions particularly in the North East and North West of England which 
 have still to this day never recovered their former prosperity. We now 
 have a two tier society which Blair was elected to eliminate, an 
 objective which he has patently failed to achieve. Instead he has 
 plunged us into a never ending series of wars, endangered our security 
 and consolidated economic neoliberalism and social inequality so that 
 it may now become completely systemic. In addition to this Blair has 
 sharply curtailed our liberties, for example; you can not now 
 spontaneously gather or protest verbally, make a speech or raise a 
 placard within a half mile of the Mother of Parliaments (Westminster) 
 or you will be arrested under the new anti-terrorist laws. 
  
 The Ex-Prime Minister is deeply offended and very angry indeed about 
 the way he has been tossed out of ten Downing Street well before the 
 next general election. This was done by his erstwhile colleagues in the 
 vain hope that the public's highly negative view and critical attitude 
 towards New Labour with Blair as Prime Minister will somehow be 
 neutralised, that time will heal, that people will forget and that with 
 a new leader New Labour itself will again win public favour. They hope 
 that with Blair out of the way the public sense of outrage and anger at 
 the illegal Iraq war and the very low esteem in which New Labour are 
 now generally held will dissipate by the time they have to face a 
 general election, which they can call at any time but which they can 
 also delay until June 2010 as long as they have their comfortable 
 majority in Parliament. 
  
 Blair feels that he was pushed out of the door in unseemly haste with 
 much ingratitude when another couple of years in office would have seen 
 his name engraved in the record book, prominently above that of 
 Margaret Thatcher as the longest serving Prime Minister of modern 
 times. Instead he leaves number ten Downing Street now, after serving 
 10 years, a very long stretch by modern standards but a year and a half 
 less than Thatcher. Not only that but he leaves not with adulation but 
 under the clouds of bloody war and numerous business and party 
 financial scandals with some people suggesting that he risks future 
 prosecution for corruption and war crimes. 
  
 Blair or b'Liar as he is commonly referred to by many people is now 
 seen to be a consummate liar, a dissimulator and a fraud, not just over 
 the falsehoods and manufactured intelligence used to justify the Iraq 
 war, which he personally helped to fabricate and disseminate ("the UK 
 could be attacked in 45 minutes with Iraqi WMD" etc.) but he is also 
 seen as false prophet of New Labour's promised revival of social 
 democracy and social justice because of the failure of his government 
 on a whole raft of domestic issues and a decent into repression, 
 corruption and banality comparable to and in some cases going further 
 than the worst excesses of Conservative Party regimes of the 1980's and 
 1990's under Thatcher and Major. Blair has done this despite the fact 
 that very reason he and New Labour were elected to power by the 
 population in the landslide general election victory of 1997 was to 
 repair the damage the Tories had caused. 
  
 Whilst New Labour's scandals don't as yet have the same kind of sexual 
 scandals and entertainment value as the Tories achieved when they had a 
 string of Ministers going with call girls, visiting S and M clubs or 
 dressing up in women's underwear and strangling themselves, financially 
 and politically speaking they are as bad as anything the Tories did and 
 in terms of the repression of civil liberties and war mongering they 
 are much worse. 
  
 In the area of race relations Blair and New Labour have proved to be as 
 subtle as the proverbial bull in a china shop. One such event was a few 
  
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