Soup of the Day

“Over the line!”

The 1997 General Election victory for Labour is probably going to be the only good thing they are going to be remembered for if the current mood of the British public persists. I remember being particularly happy to see the back of nearly 20 years of Tory rule, twelve under Margret Thatcher. But in recent weeks I am becoming more and more angry with our current government, particularly with Tony Blair.

It is completely unbelievable that the Prime Minister will completely ignore the mood of his electorate on a matter such as the current Middle East crisis. As an ICM poll showed this week, almost 70% of the British Public feel that Tony Blair should have criticised Israel for its totally unproportional response to the capturing of two of their soldiers by Hezbollah.

It certainly seems that the United States are going to happily let Israel commit the war crimes it has sustained for the past 17 days of conflict, so it is up to the rest of the world to do something. I would have thought that the killing of four UN soldiers this week would have provoked a response, but for the most part Israel have not been publically criticised. It is as though the world has got into a state of depression and every country believes there is nothing they can do - and they’re probably right.

But returning to Tony Blair for a moment. This is it for his credibility. If it wasn’t for removing the student grant system, introducing student loans leading to millions of indebted students, not renationalising the railways, leaking Dr. David Kelly’s name to the press, going to war illegally in Iraq, continual relaxed attitude to corruption in his ‘whiter than white’ party and rediculous relationship with a complete idiot (George W. Bush), then I would almost let his silence go. But the fact is that Tony, you are a disgrace to the Labour party. You have systematically sold them out to almost everything your predecessors fought long and hard for.

What Tony Blair has forgotten is that although he is prime minister, he has a boss who he will eventually have to answer to. That boss is us, the British public. We put Tony in power and we have the power to take it away again and it is moments like this that we remember most. Everyone that talks about the Middle East crisis is very quick to condem Israel, despite the actions of Hezbollah. Yet Tony strides on as though we are all behind him. At the same time it is becoming increasingly obvious how quiet Gordon Brown is currently, keeping off the news completely other than the news of a new boy. Maybe he is quietly getting ready to take control, or letting Tony finish himself off the way only Tony knows how. Either way, I hope at Septembers Labour Conference here in Manchester, Tony Blair announces his resignation and for his sake leaves the country.

If that happens, then maybe we can finally have Gordon Brown, who will want to make a good first impression, standing up to the idiotic leaders of the two most aggressive and dangerous countries on the planet, namely the United States and Israel.