The votes are cast in the lobbies at the Palace of Westminster. New Labour, the party once implacably opposed to anything nuclear, has had its way with the people of the United Kingdom. Not so much led them astray. More take them behind the bike shed, done its worst with the people and told them that they should enjoy it 'cause it’s good for them.
So much for Blair going out as a world statesman. More like a discredited wolf in sheep’s clothing. The rhetoric, the charm, the vacuous words. And no more so that on nuclear weapons. From a point of principle when a member of CND, to a point of acquiescence to USA policy when in government. So against them when we faced the very real and present threat and might of the former Soviet Union: so in favour of them when we face the might of, er, North Korea.
When you think about it, the last days of Bush and Blair could have been a triumph for world peace. They have enough conventional weapons to blow up the planet between them. So why not quietly say to every other country that has nuclear weapons or aspiration to have them, “we are getting rid of our weapons of indiscriminate mass destruction and you have till the end of my presidency to get rid of yours or we will bomb your weapons and associated sites to bits with our conventional weaponry.” Nobel peace prize for ridding the world of nuclear weapons a cert! What a legacy that would be to cherish. Think the Bush Blair Axis will do it?
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Bush Blair. That the new Axis of evil? I remember the scarey red devil eyes of the 1997 General Election campaign dreamt up by the Tories. Prophetic or what!!!
Tony Blair MP = I am Tory plan B. Thatcher had the audacity to think she may have been forgotten by her electorate in Scotland, but her evil fades to insignifcance. Blair/Bush have pushed this Country into a corner, given the launch site we are (Scotland). I back neither Bush/Blair, but hope that common sense will prevail. No Country should be subjected to or driven to protection against terrorism.
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