Sickening Departures and Unchallenged Ascensions (archive article may 2007)

Blair and Brown - Sickening Departures and Unchallenged Ascensions

by Alasdair Biggs

Good riddance to one murdering war criminal and charlatan

The saga of Blair's sickening and unjust peaceful departure, and the vile PR farewell tour, have being going on unabated now for some weeks. From his stomach-churning resignation speech at his Sedgefield constituency, where he stood by the crimes he has committed, to Washington and Baghdad, Blair's tour goes on. It started earlier in the year with various television appearances. The most famous of these was a scene in a charity tv gig (Comic Relief) with British comedienne Catherine Tate, where he did a sadly rather good impression (Am I bovvered?) of her most well known comedy character. In it he showed clearly that he would have done rather better had he chosen acting or live performance rather than to act like a decent politician, only later to turn into a war criminal and cheerleader for slaughter. Blair, a man then skilfully acting like a good politician, told the British people in 1997 that New Labour (re: Tony Blair) would change the UK, in the process ensuring 'things only got better'.

War, bloodshed and hundreds of thousands of shot, shrapnel peppered and incinerated civilians later, his fakery is there for all to see. He has recently said clearly, whilst in Washington for one last suck on the penis's of the Dark Ones, that he has no regrets about “standing should to shoulder” with Bush and his criminal wars. Blair went further in his praise by saying that Bush was "a strong leader at a time when the world needs strong leadership."

Speaking of which, Jimmy Carter rather excelled himself as a (recently discovered) purveyor of truth when he, now famously, commented 'carelessly' at the weekend that,

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst is history”

He then went and did even better in a BBC interview where he described war criminal Blair's policy of close ties to Bush and the neocon killers as,

“Abominable, Loyal, blind and apparently subservient” he went on further,

“I think that the almost undeviating support by great Britain for the ill advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world”

Indeed so, and a bloody sight bigger tragedy for the bombed and murdered and deprived people or Iraq, deprived of peace and of security, deprived of electricity and education, deprived of a sewage system and of access to medicines, deprived of air and water free from Depleted Uranium particles, deprived of so very very much.

Upsettingly enough, and tragically for the Labour Party and democracy in general, even the recent resignation of BLiar was not enough to see the Labour MP's show some real spine. No challenger could get enough nominations from MP's to stand against Brown's ascension to the throne. Two good anti-war, anti-NWO MP's did try to, but then they had to pool their nominations in order to get the backing to mount a party leadership challenge, and even then not enough Labour MP's were able to display decent morality by putting their names on the list. The disgraceful failure in this bid was best summed up by George Galloway,

“It is a devastating indictment of the Parliamentary Labour Party that it could not muster even two thirds of the number of MPs John McDonnell needed simply to be on the ballot paper for Labour leader.

“But Gordon Brown would be fooling himself if he thought that there was as little support in the country at large for the brand of real-Labour policies which John McDonnell put forward and which are a cornerstone of Respect. Labour MPs are living in a different world from most people.

So what can we expect from Gordon Brown, the unopposed and unelected new Prime Minster of not-so-Great Britain? Well there have been two reports which give the impression that perhaps Brown will be different, first of all came news that perhaps brown would not be the same neocon cheerleader into which Blair morphed, indeed The Sunday Telegraph went as far as to say that,

“Senior officials in the US National Security Council, the Pentagon and the State Department have expressed their fears about Brown,

"There is a sense of foreboding," an unnamed senior official was quoted as saying.

Then quickly afterwards we were told by the Scotsman that Brown is now planning to withdraw most of the British troops from Iraq by the end of the year. Only after, of course, the obligatory photo op, I mean visit, to the British garrison in Basra to allow him “take a look for myself and assess the situation on the ground”. He will then allow 5,000 out of 7,000 troops to go home by the end of the year, or at least this is 'one of the foremost options under consideration', according to one of his soon to be new ministers. Well that sounds to me rather like there is still room for alterations to such a plan. So the question is, will Brown and his Cabinet Ministers show some backbone, or will they surrender to the demands of the neocons, willingly surrender perhaps, and keep troops in (occupational) situ until they are allowed to withdraw? We shall see if this is merely a popularity craving bit of 'spin' or has teeth.

Will he really do anything? Will Brown reverse any of Blair's policies, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, nuclear energy and new reactors, replenishing the needless stockpile of US bough nuclear weapons? Will Brown reverse the policy of surveillance, a policy which in the words of Hampshire's deputy chief constable who, utterly dismayed at the installation of cameras in a sleepy Hampshire village said,

"I'm really concerned about what happens to the product of these cameras, and what comes next?" he said.

"If it's in our villages, are we really moving towards an Orwellian situation where cameras are at every street corner?

"And I really don't think that's the kind of country that I want to live in."

Well, will Gordon Brown make Britain “the kind of country I want to live in”? Given his unopposed ascension, failure to oppose the war in Iraq, failure to oppose nuclear energy expansion or Trident, failure to roll back the surveillance society, plus his Bilderberg backing, sadly I am afraid that I really really doubt it. The current 'encouraging' noises all have the same old feeling of opinion-poll-manipulating spin, nothing more, nothing less.