Reply #12: Well, now you ask

[RogueTrooper]

It depends on what happens at Labour Party Conference but I think Blair has managed to escape. The Hutton enquiry has such narrow terms of reference that there is a little it can say about the conduct of the Prime Minister before and during the War in Iraq. There is, however, a body of thought that thinks the reason the government seized on the death of Dr. Kelly and launched to the Hutton Inquiry was to protect it from a full blown enquiry. A full inquiry would have been quite nasty for the government. It certainly worked and Blair seemes to have got away scot-free. H

Just recently he has picked a fight with certain vocal interest groups on the left. After pissing them off be going to war with George Bush you might think he would be giving them what they want? Not so. All these interest groups are now more involved with fighting Blair over matters of self interest rather than principle. I have a sneeking suspicion that, if Blair is lucky, the war will not figure much at conference.

Tony Blair is a gifted politician, and a lucky one at that. He is in the same class as his friend Bill Clinton. Had the Republicans not stolen a Presidential election and set the world on a course of disastrous war he would most probably be looked on far more kindly on DU that he is now.

Just another reason to hate George W. Bush.