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Twenty years on: The shadow of Tony Blair
It is 20 years since he took the helm of the Labour Party. JOHN ELLISON surveys his toxic legacy as a cheerleader for war
Ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, notoriously, is a very rich man. He is also an adviser to various Middle Eastern and central Asian dictators, while pursuing a formal Quartet role as “Middle East peace envoy,” a grotesque misnomer in which his support for Israel’s decades-long violent denial of a Palestinian state is half-camouflaged by code words such as “restraint by both sides please.”
He has shrugged off the flagrant conflict of interest between his advisory and ambassadorial functions despite mounting condemnation, while performing extra tricks as a self-appointed spokesperson-and-egger-on-extraordinary for Western imperialism.
Twenty years ago, on July 21 1994, he was elected as the fresh faced leader of a “modernising” Labour Party. Prime minister from May 1997, he resigned 10 years later, after much reluctance, in favour of chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown. His role as deceiver-in-chief in the run-up to the Iraq war, in which he used the dodgy dossier on Iraq’s non-existent WMDs to provide a sham justification for war, has seen him long since renamed as “Bliar.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/07/twenty-years-on-the-shadow-of-tony-blair/
