Straight To The Point

Though it pains me to come to this conclusion, Tony Blair will get away with the Iraq war and all it's associated problems (civil war, thousands of deaths, the usual). He's not going to admit he made a mistake, and so it comes down to a "difference of opinion" between whether we were right to to war or not. No matter how vehemently you disagree with it (and I do), there's no hard and fast law against it (though there should be, in a War Crime kind of way). No matter how much we accuse him of lying, there are plenty of ways for him to wriggle out of an argument since the English language can be so vague and open to interpretation. And besides, Tony's not even going to be up for re-election again, so we can't send him a clear signal of how much we hate him - the poor Labour party will have to put up with that for going along with him. He will just pass on the mantle of leadership and then fade away slowly.

I almost pity Gordon Brown; he's pretty much got the top job in the Labour party lined up for him, but slowly the Labour party is losing support, and his dream of being PM is looking more unlikely every day. It's as though Tony's sabotaging it deliberately. After all, what has he got to lose?