Blair and Iraq

Guardian: Reports on more revelations from the memoirs of Lord Mandelson, in this case it deals with Iraq, it seems that Tony Blair thought that post war planning for Iraq was down to the US. If your ally in a war you have JOINT responsibility for the aftermath, if the Iraq Inquiry finds fault with the Blair Government when it comes to post war planning then Labour Party might have to cut bait when it comes to Tony Blair, there are so many negative revelations of late when it comes to New Labour that the post Gordon Brown Labour Party will move to bury New Labour and disown its parents.

Rendition and Tony Blair

Telegraph: Reports on previous secret documents that seem to revel that the then UK PM Tony Blair supported the US policy of rendition of suspect terrorists even those with UK links. One word folks, GOOD, Bush 43 and Obama have the same policy when it comes to rendition, in this matter Mr Blair did the right thing as in the alliance with the US and in the national security interest of the UK. Lets be clear, there have been and will be mistakes in this policy, but if it saves lives then so let it be, we can protest because we have that right, but you have to be breathing to protest, the Bush/Blair Era polices allowed the UK and US to get its hands dirty as keep the public hands clean, good job Mr Blair.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has announced the names of the three British Soldiers of the “ 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, serving as part of Combined Force Nahr-e Saraj (South) ” that were killed on Tuesday in Afghanistan, they were “ Major James Joshua Bowman, Lieutenant Neal Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun ”. Our thoughts are with the families of Major Bowman, Lieutenant Turkington and Corporal Pun.

Gordon Brown = Lord Byron and a Mafia Don ?

Guardian: Reports on more revelations form the Dark Prince Lord Mandelson, the Guardian reports that the ex UK PM Tony Blair stated that his successor was mad, bad etc, but it can be postulated without the writing qualities of Lord Byron and the threatening manner of a Mafia Don, didn’t hear about any horses head in 10 Downing Street. Have to admit this does sound over the top even for New Labour, but on other hand can you see Lady Thatcher putting up with Gordon Brown for a day never mind 10 years. This blog is still waiting to hear why Tony Blair didn’t sack Gordon Brown when he had the chance in 2005, yes Brown would have caused massive problems on the backbenches but at lest it would have been Blair ‘s Government, was Mr Blair afraid that he would share the same fate as Lady Thatcher when she got rid of her opposition. How New Labour every won three elections will be mystery to this blog for many a year, on the whole a bunch of ego maniacs with no self discipline and then there is the Iraq War, what more can you say about New Labour.

The Double Agent Feeling!

Its odd how some things never change, have just finished watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with the great Sir Alec Guiness, its about double agents at the height of the Cold War, and what do I read in the Telegraph, the hot Russian spy Anna Chapman is being held by the Russians to check out if she is double agent. Advice to the successor KGB don’t let men question her, she could be a double agent and is so hot that the men would offer to carry the stuff to the US Embassy. But seriously folks, have to admit have enjoyed this return to the Cold War, there is one thing you can guarantee about the spy business folks, the real good ones by the end are working both sides against the middle, that how stay alive. Also they never allow emotion to get in the way, to miss quote a line from a film “ A spy should after a years of creating a network be willing to sell that network down the water in a second if its in the national security interest of that spy ”. At the end of the day folks it’s more George Smiley than James Bond, lot of leg work, reading and watching, and having a unhealthy diet on a stakeout. Would the US send back a double agent, in less it was setting up a agent to cover for another Agent in Moscow. Or of course the info about the Russian Agents came via the air.
　
　

Coalition Government WINS VAT vote in the House of Commons

BBC News: Reports that Coalition Government has won the vote in the House of Commons to increase VAT from 17.5 to 20%. Thus far so good in Coalition terms, the tough time really comes when the Treasury starts to cut Departmental Budgets from 25% to in some extreme cases 40%. The question has to be asked do the Liberal Democrats have the political backbone to be hated, if you’re a Conservative its part of the deal of being a Torie. The Budget cuts will make the Thatcher years look like old Labour was in power, but once the Government deficit is removed then the Conservatives can start to cut taxes, make government limited, reverse the Big Government view of New Labour. Then in 2015 the Conservative Party can send Labour in to political oblivion by winning a second term with an increase majority.

Death in Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that a fourth Soldier was killed on Tuesday in Afghanistan, the Soldier as a “ Marine from 40 Commando Royal Marines ”. Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 318 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 280 in combat operations and 38 due to illness, accidents or other incidents.