Democracy on Trial
Blair is not Britain
Demand a National Referendum

Three days after the largest ant war demonstration in the history of Britain, Tony Blair addressed the media and argued: that he recognised that the vast majority of the electorate were opposed to the war, this he believed ‘ could’ change in the event of a second U.N. Security Council resolution. He then stated ‘ The moment the public takes its final views on this will be the moment when we finally take military action’.

This statement by Blair must go down as one of the most cynical abuses of language in the history of British politics.

Blair knows full well that there is no political mechanism by which the public ‘ final view’ can be registered – outside of a national referendum.

In a true democracy, the electorate can no longer accept that one man – the Prime Minister – can declare war in the name of the British people without people having an input into the decision which affects us; therefore we have no alternative but to demand a referendum.

In the absence of such a mechanism. A small group of anti war protesters have set up a petition demanding, a National Referendum on the issue of Peace or War with Iraq. The public response is stunning within a matters of a few hours five thousand signatures, were obtained and support for the demand continues to grow.

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