Labourlist column
My Labourlist column this week look's at Tony Blair's speech on Friday and gives it 7/10:
http://www.labourlist.org/blairs-progress-speech-gets-710
posted by Luke Akehurst at 9:44 am
Monday, July 11, 2011
http://www.labourlist.org/blairs-progress-speech-gets-710
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- Name: Luke Akehurst
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Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
1 Comments:
"showing great courage in pursuing a truly ethical foreign policy"
Attacking a country to steal its resources is not ethical. We now know that Blair's government was meeting U K oil companies before the Iraq War to discuss how they could profit from the conflict.
After one meeting, in October 2002 Edward Chaplin, then Foreign Office Middle East director, is quoted as saying: ‘We were determined to get a fair slice of the action for UK companies in post-Saddam Iraq"
As for Trident, Blair himself says:
"So, after some genuine consideration and reconsideration, I opted to renew it. But the contrary decision would not have been stupid."
Blair does seem to have been genuinely hesitant about this. We have no reason whatsoever to be grateful to him for the decision that he did make.
10:47 am, July 11, 2011
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