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Tony Blair
Tony Blair could return to front line politics ...when Starmer wins the next election.
He could return as one of the most powerful figures in politics.And this prospect has sparked Hope of a closer link with the EU.The Tony Blair institute for global changes proposes for a new special partnership between UK and EU. Think this would upset a few abers if it happened....
He could return as one of the most powerful figures in politics.And this prospect has sparked Hope of a closer link with the EU.The Tony Blair institute for global changes proposes for a new special partnership between UK and EU. Think this would upset a few abers if it happened....
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....and getting back to the original posting,
12:37 Sun 25th Jun 2023
i find it odd that people are willing to brand tony blair a liar (against whom nothing was proved in the hutton enquiry) but not boris (who is let's face it an enquiry made him into a proven liar).
it's just a case of who "your boy" is i suppose. Personally i'm inclined to believe that both of them were doing their best under difficult circumstances. Blair in the events surrounding the iraq war; johnson in the events surrounding Covid 19
it's just a case of who "your boy" is i suppose. Personally i'm inclined to believe that both of them were doing their best under difficult circumstances. Blair in the events surrounding the iraq war; johnson in the events surrounding Covid 19
Another casualty of Bliar.
//Kelly’s body was found on 18 July 2003, a day after he had gone for a walk near his home. He had been exposed as the source of the report alleging that the government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, presented as central to the case for war, had been “sexed up”. The Hutton inquiry found he had killed himself, though there has been no inquest into his death.//
For 'sexed up' I believe they meant to say a termalogical inexactitude
for darn right lying and inventiveness in order to con the gullible it was a just cause for Britain to take on.
//Kelly’s body was found on 18 July 2003, a day after he had gone for a walk near his home. He had been exposed as the source of the report alleging that the government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, presented as central to the case for war, had been “sexed up”. The Hutton inquiry found he had killed himself, though there has been no inquest into his death.//
For 'sexed up' I believe they meant to say a termalogical inexactitude
for darn right lying and inventiveness in order to con the gullible it was a just cause for Britain to take on.
well here's anothe quote from WIKI retro:
Despite this evidence, Hutton's report largely cleared the government of any wrongdoing. In large measure this was because Hutton judged that the government had NOT KNOWN of the reservations in the intelligence community: it seemed they had been discounted by senior intelligence assessors (the Joint Intelligence Committee) — thus Gilligan's claim that the government "probably knew" the intelligence was flawed, was itself unfounded. Furthermore, the Inquiry heard that these were not the words used by Gilligan's source, but Gilligan's own inference. However, the judgement that No. 10 was not aware of the reservations of the intelligence community was not supported by other evidence contained in the report, such as the transcript of an interview given by David Kelly to BBC journalist Susan Watts.
Despite this evidence, Hutton's report largely cleared the government of any wrongdoing. In large measure this was because Hutton judged that the government had NOT KNOWN of the reservations in the intelligence community: it seemed they had been discounted by senior intelligence assessors (the Joint Intelligence Committee) — thus Gilligan's claim that the government "probably knew" the intelligence was flawed, was itself unfounded. Furthermore, the Inquiry heard that these were not the words used by Gilligan's source, but Gilligan's own inference. However, the judgement that No. 10 was not aware of the reservations of the intelligence community was not supported by other evidence contained in the report, such as the transcript of an interview given by David Kelly to BBC journalist Susan Watts.
it will be very interesting to see what the report into covid 19 shows (and then who believes it and who cries foul) but as it's not out yet, no-one knows. Maybe the govt WILL be shown to have bungled it, or maybe not. One thig we do already know is tht the govt made some lives miserable with the rules, didnt follow them themselves then lied about doing that.
Like i say, i believve both blair and johnson did the bet they could with the circumstances they had
Like i say, i believve both blair and johnson did the bet they could with the circumstances they had
//People do pick and chose what enquiry/reports to believe, which is my point entirely. (some) people chose to not believe the report into borises lies, but chose to believe chilcot because ti suits their political leanings. And the other way round//
Well this post is entitled Tony Blair. He is what the debate is about. It is not about Boris or the ongoing Covid enquiry or Sir Winston Spencer Churchill's planning of the Gallipoli campaign. They are an irrelevance to this post. I'm sure the Covid enquiry and Boris will be discussed when it is concluded if you can live that long. :-)
Well this post is entitled Tony Blair. He is what the debate is about. It is not about Boris or the ongoing Covid enquiry or Sir Winston Spencer Churchill's planning of the Gallipoli campaign. They are an irrelevance to this post. I'm sure the Covid enquiry and Boris will be discussed when it is concluded if you can live that long. :-)
