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Demand for F15: Tony Blair Must Go!

ZeroZero | 07.02.2003 15:32

Demand the resignation of Tony Blair on Feb 15th.

Seems like a great idea for banners, etc- lots of anti-Blair propaganda.

From an email:

>So,
>
>we know that Blair is lying through his teeth. We know that he's
>frightened of the unprecedented levels of public opposition to war.
>But he's backed himself into a corner and Blair will probably go
>ahead with it regardless of public opinion. Its like so many big
>popular campaigns, the government just won't back down to the rabble.
>
>And the weakness of our campaigns is that we're always campaigning
>negatively, we're always on their ground, talking about what they
>want to happen and what we want not to happen.
>
>I've often thought that what a lot of campaigns against things need
>is a positive goal, our own goal, to shift the battle on to our
>ground. The difficulty with this approach has often been that our
>alternatives (to roads, agribusiness, globalisation, and in this case
>war) often have to be, by necessity, somewhat complex. These are all
>complex issues and require complex solutions. Which makes it hard to
>shift the 'battle ground' of the debate as quickly as we want.
>
>Given the obvious lying and spin, and given tonight's revelations (on
>C4 News) that the UK govt dossier of 'evidence' against Iraq was
>(criminally) plagiarised from a handful of now obsolete academic
>papers (with numerous omissions and distortions) and not the result
>of intelligence work, and (pardon the ridiculously long sentences and
>over use of brackets) given Blair's pathetic performance on the
>Newsnight Special tonight, I get the impression that public opinion
>could be sympathetic to a new and very simple demand - that Tony
>Blair must resign as Prime Minister.
>
>Newspaper editors are saying that Blair is "losing the plot" that
>he's "out of touch" and simply won't listen, people giggled at him
>and took the piss on the Newsnight Special. He's looking very weak
>now especially after his volte face over The Lords, and I believe
>that large sections of the press would love a new way to draw blood.
>With enough people calling for it, enough banner-waving etc, we could
>open up a 'new front' in the public debate. Lets demand the bastard
>resigns and/or is impeached.
>
>I'd love to see him answer that demand.
>
>It'll only take a few minutes to write to your MP and/or No 10, and
>send an email to your mates asking them to do the same. Its not
>necessary (though it can only help) to go point by point through all
>the lies they've spun at us (in Gulf War One as well as this one) and
>all the issues they're simply failing to address. In my experience
>they simply don;t reply to difficult questions anyway. I think the
>political climate has changed. They've lied to us before, why on
>earth should we believe or even engage with the latest round of
>deception. And the majority knows it.
>
>So lets demand what we all want, that Blair goes. There'll be no war
>then.
>
>Shall we get the ball rolling?
>
>Chris

ZeroZero

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will it stop the war?

07.02.2003 16:58

Do you really think getting rid of Blair will stop the war?

j'boy


Every bit helps.

07.02.2003 17:13

Blair is Bush's right leg. The American public thinks the world of having Brittain onside. Show them and the world loudly that he's not representing his people and another bulwark in this case for war is gone. I say, right on Brits.

Spring Hope


Yes, and more

07.02.2003 17:32

I've been calling for months now that Blair face his ouster through a no-confidence vote, and this now seems possible. The apparent problem is, if this succeeds, then who will become the new PM? Whoever it is must have enough courage to say NO! to the US and start an historical rollback of the so-called "special relationship." This would mean not just withdrawing troops and support for the Iraq massacre; it would also mean obeying key treaties--specifically the 1967 weapons in space treaty, which would mean immediate termination of support for the so-called national missile defence shield--and international law, starting with the enforcement of the Geneva and Nuremberg Protocals, in an effort to contain US lawlessness.

Yes, such moves would appear to be radical, and are from a particular point-of-view, but at another level they are not only practical but absolutely necessary if an escape from the current paradigm is the ultimate goal. But in order for any of this to happen Blair must go.

If the demonstrative will of the people regarding what will clearly be illegal aggression is not acted upon in what is supposed to be a democratic state (and even in an undemocratic state), then according to international law it is the DUTY of the people to enforce it on their leaders through the direct action of physically removing them using any means necessary. (This is spelled out in the Nuremberg Protocals.)

One thing is certain: The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to last much longer.

karlof1


Bliar must go

07.02.2003 17:59

Blair is extremely important for the war propaganda in the US. It's only because he managed to convince Americans that there is some level of outside support that the Bush government can get any public support for their war.

If we get him to resign it would send a very strong signal to the US public and immensely strengthen the anti-war movement in the US.

We should threaten local Labour MPs that we'll be campaigning against them at the next elections if they can't stop the war.

war is not inevitable if we don't accept it.

pir


Bring him down!

07.02.2003 22:06

I've said this before but, when I was in Parliament Square on 21/01/03 at the open air rally people were convinced that with enough public pressure, Blair can be brought down over this, as the chats went "Bring Him Down", even Blair himself has admitted that he is risking all over this.

He is now looking more and more desparate to justify this war, he has now even resorted to scraping the barrell to present evidence to convince people and this time with that shameful new dossier he has sunk to new depths!

The chants on Feb 15th should be "Tony, Tony, Tony, Out, Out, Out" loud and clear!

Stuey
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Remove the lower levels of the pyramid..

07.02.2003 22:09

Surely better for the labour party members, MPs, trade unions - those with any vestige of conscience, value-system, humanity, to resign from the party, preferably publicly with burning of membership cards - TU members should demand that their union pulls any financial or other support from new labour, and leave the union if the leadership refuses.
New Labour is essentially a proto-fascist party, and the bleating of the likes of the Galloways and Mahons merely amplify the total moribund uselessness of their positions.
They should get out of the party and get out of Parliament, perhaps to hold People's Forums elsewhere.
People of conscience should have nothing to do with the Blair cabal, but rather pull the rug from under.
Removing support from a system will undermine it. Demanding the resignation of the mutha at the top will achieve nothing.

dh


Get Rid of Tony Blair

08.02.2003 22:13

If you want to affect U.S. public opinion, the best thing you can do is get rid of Tony Blair. There's a real lack in the U.S. of anti-war articles in mainstream media. Most people in the U.S. barely know there's an antiwar movement in the world. People in the U.S. talk more about Michael Jackson's interview on TV than about the war. But if the people in UK get rid of Blair, the U.S. corporate media couldn't ignore that. In the U.S. France's opposition to the U.S. war was noticed, and corporate media had nasty articles bashing the French. If you had a lot of people focusing in the Feb. 15th march on chants against Blair, that would also have impact. Britain abandoning the U.S. would show the U.S. as isolated--so I hope you all get rid of Blair. I think you should try to take over the Labor Party from the left. Good luck.
Julia Stein

Julia Stein