I can't remember!

So goes the line when the guilty are forced to face the truth.

In a few days, Tony Blair, self styled 'man of history' and 'wartime leader', will release his memoirs called 'A Journey' (the title had to be changed from 'THE Journey' at the last minute).

Nobody knows what the book will contain but absolutely everybody knows what it will NOT contain.

What it will not contain is an explanation for Mr Blair's role in misleading the British Parliament and, more seriously, the British people over his governments persistence for the case for going to war in Iraq. It will not contain any mention as to why his government, despite a huge public outcry, refused to re-adjust its position over Iraq in the face of very serious threats of withdrawal of political and public consensus. It will not contain any real explanation for why he spent four years defending his actions as Iraq cartwheeled into misery. It will not contain an apology.

It will not contain anything other than a belligerent, clumsy, contrived and morally distant attempt to reassemble what slivers remain of his dismembered reputation.

In short, his book will contain nothing of any moral or sympathetic substance which will help the vast majority of the British or Iraqi people understand why he rigidly pursued and defended the case for war, even as the original case fell apart, millions of Iraqi's fled to neighbouring states, hundreds of thousands were slaughtered and the sovereign state of Iraq collapsed before the world eyes.

Instead, what we will get is public relations soap opera transcribed into 'media friendly' food for the masses and TV script screenplay. What we will get is an amalgamation of populist culture mixed with mass death, terrorism and self regarding out-of-date individualism.

After the deaths of over 100,000 Iraqi's, after the destruction of the countries infrastructure and decapitation of its underlying societal cohesion (however distasteful that may have been for Mr Blair and his acolytes) we will be rewarded for our inherent sense of public justice for the national good with a 'version of history' that will be bitter on the tongue. It will be history gilded with a patina of guilt, resentment and hatred for his enemies, wrapped in a sham indifference to those who have brought him low. It will be a vanity version of his part in 'our' story, painted with TV makeup and a salesman's smile with a cynical dependence on false optimism.

Already, the pre-publicity knife throwers are out. Blairs 'media assassins' are positioning themselves to slice up the inevitable reaction with their colouring pencils. Black is white, white is black. Bad is good, good is bad. For a criminal to mark his place in history, he must make the world a criminal first. How else is his reputation to survive?

From the very start, Mr Blair has perpetually swapped the word 'I' for 'you'. From the very start, Mr Blair has always justified 'his' decision making by crudely and oddly suggesting 'you' would have done the same!

You would not have done the same.

This simple fact, in and of itself, is why his 'journey' was needed at all.

Mr Blair releases his book and uses all the modern techniques of actor, entertainer, publicity agent and TV persona to pole axe the distant public into confused moral concussion just long enough to rob them blind. His assurances that payment for the book is to go to the British legion is simply marketing technique, that the British legion are 'bound' to accept. You'd be surprised to learn, that the Royal British Legion has very heavy debts on its books! It is not a healthy organisation. Very little of the books sales will ever arrive in the bank accounts of a soldier who is facing the daunting prospect of spending the rest of his life as a cripple.

And the protests?

In 2003 the Labour controlled opposition group, the STWC, rallied against Mr Blair under the slogan 'Not in my Name'. But in their name it was. The STWC are Labour and always have been, they hate only one thing more than the crime of war itself, and that is that a serving member of their beloved Labour party should become a criminal of that very same war. Mr Blair has always been tremendously grateful to them for their service to their party, he has always relied on them for that.

Small wonder then, that the books release should occur just as the STWC support base has completely collapsed. At no time since 2003, has the STWC made any serious attempt, whatsoever, to bring charges against Mr Blair despite all the money it has collected from the public. This the organisation that were most vociferous in their calling him a war criminal. From the very start, the STWC have acted to protect Mr Blair by taking charge of anything that may have genuinely threatened him, and the wider Labour party, and then set about carefully rendering it completely ineffective. If there is one thing the British public cannot stand, it is foul-mouthed socialist's marching through the streets screaming abuse and dictating the terns of reason. And the STWC, the Labour party and the SWP know it!

In political slang, the term is 'total control'. Its primary tactic is 'crafted aversion'.

It is a modern ideology borne of tactical necessity and its underlying structure is based on a curious mix of media infiltration, psychology and political science. At its heart is a poisonous brew of degradation of the public spirit and assassination of the public conscience. It depends on one thing more than anything else, poaching of the limelight.

Mr Blair will not be here in the UK when this toxic carcinogen is placed on the shelves of the book stores. He will be in the United States in his role of Peace Envoy. A role given to him by international concerns more worried about a British PM being charged with the supreme crime of waging wars of aggression, and who look beyond domestic party loyalties here in the UK, so much so, that they are willing to give him his very own pot to piss in.

But Mr Blair has pre-recorded an interview with Labour loyalist Andrew Marr, a BBC employee and another acolyte. In it, he will continue to cling to 'his story' and will continue to place his 'individualism' above and beyond the hundreds of thousands of the dead, maimed, crippled, injured and displaced. He will continue to place himself above and beyond his crimes, our failures and the national good.

Much of what he will say will be heavily dependent on the public recollection of now distant events. Gone will be his fight to stop his war plans from collapsing, gone will be his determined efforts to confuse and sidestep members of his own cabinet from voicing their concerns, gone will be the rigid determination to 'see it through'. Instead, the old supposed wounds and so-called animosity between himself and partner in crime Gordon Brown, will be reopened as tactic with yet more mileage in it.

Yes, Gordon Brown too. The party comes first.

So here we are, all of us together, little Englanders.

I can't remember?

So goes the line when the guilty are forced to face the truth.