Blair.

[Workingman]

How does this sorry excuse for a man sleep at night, and why do the BBC and Sky keep giving him air time?

He is a former MP and a former PM. He is no longer a politician, he is a money making machine for clan Blair and an arch hypocrite.

His latest mumblings are beyond belief. The will of the people has to be recognised, but the will of the people can change and so we must keep our Brexit options open.

To put it another way, the people have spoken but politicians do not like what they have said so we should ignore them.

Yes, just like you ignored us over Iraq.

I do not jest when I say that I would like to see this traitor's head on a spike on London Bridge, which just happens to be in the United States after its sale. It would be very fitting seeing that this disgusting individual makes his money on the US after dinner circuit telling gullible Yanks what they want to hear.

If there is any justice in the world the Chilcot report should provide enough evidence to string him up, but we all know that will be a whitewash.

[TheOstrich]

I believe it is out next Wednesday, is it not?

I have seen reference to a conspiracy theory doing the rounds that Corbyn is clinging on to office until at least next week so that he can stand up authoritatively in the Commons and call for Blair to be tried for war crimes .....

[Suff]

I have seen reference to a conspiracy theory doing the rounds that Corbyn is clinging on to office until at least next week so that he can stand up authoritatively in the Commons and call for Blair to be tried for war crimes .....

Well at least he should do ONE more useful thing before he leaves. The other was to turn Labour voters so far from Remain that we got a Brexit vote (well it was useful to me).

[cromwell]

How does this sorry excuse for a man sleep at night, and why do the BBC and Sky keep giving him air time?

It is certainly a puzzle. The BBC even give air time to Blair's old sidekick, Alastair "dodgy dossier" Campbell, an outstandingly unpleasant person if ever there was one.

I can only think it is because of the death of shame in public life. Back in the day if a politician was caught with their trousers down, they would generally resign. Now, it isn't so. It seems if you can get away with something, no matter how iffy, you carry on regardless. Remember Chris Bryant, aka Captain Underpants, advertising for sex on a gay dating site dressed in his Y-fronts? Incredibly sleazy behaviour, but he is still an MP. This is nothing to do with him being gay btw, sleazy is sleazy no matter what your preferences are.

Anyway, hopefully the Chilcott report might put something in the public domain that will shut Blair's cake hole for good. I won't hold my breath though.

[medsec222]

On the hour every hour, Tony Blair on Brexit, and the right of the British people to change their minds. Five minutes into the new, here he is again on Jeremy Corbyn. Why doesn't this chancer take a long holiday. Not a word about David Kelly though.

[Aggers]

Breaking news....

At least 125 people have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraq.
A pickup truck packed with explosivse blew up outside a crowded market in Karada killing at least 115 people and wounding up to 187 others, officials said.

The first thing that crossed my mind when I heard this was -
I wonder if this would have happened if Blair hadn't lied his way into re-seating Saddam Hussein

[Suff]

I'm not a Blair apologist, but we do have to remember that Saddam initiated a 10 year war with Iran, used chemical weapons against Iran and his own people, killed in excess of a million Iraqi's, drove the Kurds into exile, massacred Christians and, generally, lived by torture and mayhem.

What is going on may not be good and, by our standards barbaric, but what went on before was worse. Maybe that is what was required to keep these people in check? I don't know. But the murder and mayhem going on right now is way less than what happened, doled out by the government, on a daily basis by Saddam.

Bush was in a much cleaner place when he campaigned to get rid of Saddam. Regime change was possible to sell in the US and the horrors of Saddam made that easy. In the UK it was not an easy sell, perhaps because we'd done it so often. So Blair needed WMD.

There is plenty to blame Blair for but the fact that the ME is full of radicalised overly bloodthirsty religious maniacs who think killing others is the best way to political achievement is in no way a fault of Blair. They have been at it for 13 centuries and still haven't learned a single thing.

[victor]

he should be tried as a war criminal

[Kaz]

Frank, Mick and I have been saying similar - how does he sleep at night, and how come he isn't being tried as a war criminal?? When they called the man Teflon Tone they were certainly right! No matter what, he is still standing, even after (allegedly) cuckolding Murdoch he is still there, in one piece, indestructible, like a cockroach

[Suff]

indestructible, like a cockroach

I like that analogy