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Blair's speech to Parliament disrupted, Downing street whitewashed.

Tom | 04.02.2004 13:29 | Anti-militarism | Oxford

Tony Blair's speech to Parliament about the Hutton enquiry was repeatedly disrupted by activists shouting from the public gallery, easily audible on the live TV broadcast. The speaker suspended the debate and ordered the public gallery to be cleared.

Blair had somewhat strangely claimed that holding a public enquiry into the reasons for war would be "profoundly undemocratic". The Butler enquiry has an incredibly narrow remit and will sit in secret. Only its findings, i.e. 'the Government is Perfect', will be made public.

Is now the time to call for all of Tony Blair (and cabinet members) speeches to be disrupted with calls for transparency? The government would like nothing more than for the Iraq issue to dissappear, in fact Tony Blair already talks about it in the past tense while occupying soldiers and civilians die daily.

The disrupted speech came several hours after demonstraters dressed as judges poured white paint over downing street's gates in a protest against the government's persistant clearing of itself of any wrong-doing.

Bring down the government, they don't speak for us.

Tom

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  1. BBC report — sociétélibre
  2. JUDGES FOR JUSTICE — j
  3. More corporate reports — sociétélibre
  4. see also — sociétélibre
  5. Phoney lied you can see it in his eyes .... — Labourer
  6. Hutton The Psychiatrist — Jack
  7. A Leader with Honour... — Clare Jones
  8. Fuck off Spock — dh
  9. yeah fuck off — r
  10. To Spock — so there
  11. Odd deaths — Ian
  12. Except, Spock — Tom
  13. Spock the spook — Oi!
  14. Learning from history: don't appease Bush! — Chamblerlain II
  15. Justice — Jeff
  16. don't you dare..... — WTC relief worker
  17. justice not vengeance — benji
  18. Sources — Mick
  19. sources 2 — Mick
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