Not a few readers have been writing to tell me that I should "forget" about Hague and concentrate on the real scandal, the ongoing saga of Andy Coulson, the No 10 "communications chief" and former News of the World editor.Actually, I would as soon forget about the whole bunch of them but, sadly, ignoring them does not make them go away. But the Coulson scandal will not go away either, as is gleefully recorded by The Guardian and many others, who are picking up on the so-called mobile phone hacking scandal.The current development is that Coulson, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been fingered by the New York Times as having freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques, with a former News of the World journalist claiming that he had been ordered by the former editor to...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 3rd September 2010 Click to Buy Tony Blair’s ‘A Journey’ As the press compete to decide which is the biggest stick with which to beat Tony Blair into the pulp he clearly deserves to become – (the “animal”, the “indiscrete”, the “warmonger” over Iran, the “revenge seeker” , the nasty, twisted GW Bush lover – the SEX thing) - and as his memoir seems to be about to break all records,  this country’s most influential statesman goes about his business: being influential and statesmanlike. Irritating, isn’t it, littlies? Tony Blair appears...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 1st September, 2010 The Middle East Peace representative for the Quartet for the last three years and three months Tony Blair arrived in Washington yesterday for the first meeting of Israelis and Palestinians for over two years. But first, with regard to the “journey’s end” jibe – the anti-Iraq war Independent’s choice phrase – today Mr Blair is, correct me if I’m wrong, the only European at the Washington peace talks Perhaps, dear Indy, his journey is NOT yet over. Watch a clip of tonight’s interview with Andrew Marr I managed to see it in the end. It was fine. Not...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 1st September 2010 Martin Kettle’s World Exclusive Interview: ‘… he felt “sick, a mixture of anger and anguish” when he was asked by the Iraq inquiry chair, Sir John Chilcot, in January if had regrets over Iraq. “Do they really suppose I don’t care, don’t feel, don’t regret with every fibre of my being the loss of those who died?”‘ BLAIR MEMOIRS  – HE FEELS, CRIES AND DRINKS WOW! You don’t expect us to believe he’s HUMAN? EXTRACTS FROM TONY BLAIR’S WEBSITE DEDICATED TO HIS MEMOIRS INTRODUCTION: (2 pages) “The...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 31st August 2010 ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? THEN HE’LL BEGIN Only 15 minutes to wait, kiddies. According to the dedicated website here – http://www.tonyblairjourney.co.uk/Exclusive_extracts_released – it shouldn’t be long before the press are at it hammer and tongs. The papers and the broadcasters have already leaked a little. One, on Gordon Brown, and two on Mr Blair’s appearance in January at the Iraq Inquiry. On Gordon Brown it is said by one of the leaking papers that Tony Blair has accused Mr Brown of “trying to blackmail me.” Even without the present soul of the...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 31st August 2010 SHUT UP – YOU WINNERS!!! After Peter Mandelson‘s warning (video) about the leadership of Labour (aka as New Labour) and the sadly inevitable response to the Dark Lord’s words, Iain Martin puts it succinctly here. “At last, the Labour leadership race has come alive. The Dark Lord (Mandelson) has clearly got sick of it being a mealy-mouthed affair and has criticized Ed Miliband — saying he wants to hark back to an age before New Labour rather than reaching out into floating voter land. It was a perfectly fairly worded critique, the normal stuff of healthy, robust...

This piece of mine appears in the First Post.Neil Clark: If you think the Lib Dem leader is struggling now, just wait for next month’s party conference. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Phyllis McGinley wasn't writing about Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats when she penned those lines - but they sum up perfectly what has happened to Britain's third party and its leader since its breakthrough election 'success' in May. Then the champagne corks were popping, as the Liberals entered a peacetime British government for the first time since the 1930s. Three months on and it's a very different story. You can read the whole of the article...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 22nd August 2010 PATHOLOGIST: DAVID KELLY’S DEATH A “TEXTBOOK SUICIDE” Nicholas Hunt, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on David Kelly’s body told The Sunday Times: “I felt very, very sorry for David Kelly and the way he had been treated by the Government… I had every reason to look for something untoward and would dearly love to have found something.” The post before last I said I’d be publishing a Pat Condell video, and I will. Eventually. Things keep getting in the way. Little everyday things like a so-called journalist expecting a former prime minister to...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 21st August 2010 I have some bones to pick with my new online friend Peter Reynolds. He’s been drifting back into his liberal leftiness. Which is odd, since he’s a Conservative. But there we go. This is the era of the End of Politics, is it not? It is the Day of the Jackass, sorry, the Individual Decider-by-Conscience and thus Immaculate Conceptual Policy-Maker. So Peter the self-confessed Tory had this at his blog – Israel and Palestine To Hold Direct Peace Talks Unfortunately Peter had to let his bias shine through with these pre-conceptions and thus assumptions: “This is the news the whole...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 20th August 2010 From nesundaysun | 16 November 2008 ‘DID Tony Blair ever claim to have sat at the Gallowgate End and watch Jackie Milburn play? No matter how many times he denied making the comment, journalists and political rivals refused to let the rumour die and he was unable to disprove he ever said it… until now.’ So why am I using this video? It was posted to YouTube by the Sunday Sun newspaper itself, admitting that they had lied about Tony Blair? You might well ask why I am using it right now. It came to mind because of my recent experience at a blog called Liberal...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 19th August 2010 ANDREW MARR TO INTERVIEW BLAIR ON 1st SEPTEMBER Order The Journey here. 40% off list price. It is clear what irritates much of the British press about Tony Blair;  his inconsiderate habit of breathing. But that temporary setback aside, more disconcerting for troof seekers is Blair’s really irritating tendency to ignore the media. Like all bullies and liars, the press hate to be ignored. And they’re running out of descriptive words, now that he’s no longer supplying them with triggers. Since the long-established press intelligentsia and literrati position of using any news on Mr...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 17th August 2010 £4.6M+ – THE BIGGEST DONATION THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION HAS EVER RECEIVED IN ITS 89 YEAR HISTORY Folowing this fantastic news two journalistic Johns have been at it today on the airwaves.  On the pro-side John Rentoul, and on the anti-side John Kampfner. They have been trying to work out quite what to make of Tony Blair’s HUGE donation to the Royal Legion. Correction:  ONE of the Johns has been trying to work out an angle on it. For the “extreme outriders” – Kampfner’s new description for we few, we happy few -  (such as Rentoul, Kamm, Aaronovitch and ME,...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 16th August 2010 Following on from this – Rentoul – The Mail – The Times – David Kelly – 9 Doctors – there’s something you may have missed. In all the exclaimed certainties -  “Oh my God, they killed David Kelly” – one thing is seldom, if ever mentioned. Dr David Kelly also believed there were WMD Gilligan reference meeting his source on 22nd May, 2003:  “He [Kelly] has said that, as an expert in the field, he believes Saddam Hussein possessed WMD.” See full MoD statement on Gilligan meeting _______________ CHILDSPLAY In the Blair-Baiting game...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 13th August 2010 DAILY MAUL (sort of, not) EXCLUSIVE (Read all about it at The Times) No “exclusive” of course.  The Mail is regurgitating, in a state of high dudgeon, The Times’s story. Its raised pique level at someone else stealing its story deters The Maul about as much as its lying about Tony Blair ever has. The picture above, in case you were taken in,  is my edit. Whether it’s nine or ninety-nine with several dozen zeros, is immaterial. The Daily Mail is at its Hunt The Blair game again. Whatever the season, whatever the reason. Talking about seasons – after a fortnight off,...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 12th August 2010 I have been called some names for even writing this blog with the name and picture of the “well-known war criminal” in the masthead.  Not least among those names is “useful idiot”. “Just you wait”, the incredulous know-alls say. “He’ll get his comeuppance. You’ll see!” It seems that some men’s useful idiots are other men’s freedom fighters. Late last night, being an avid late-night BBC World Service listener I caught some of this programme “Useful idiots” (first broadcast 4th August.) Today CIF Watch has this on the...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 12th August 2010 “ANDREW… ANDREW… ANDREW… ANDREW… ANDREW… ANDREW… ANDREW… ANDREW… I’ve got nothing more to say” Racist Diane Aboott, a Labour leadership candidate (I kid you not!) is reduced to almost one word as Andrew Neil asks her to confirm the meaning of her statement on West Indian mums. He asked her if she meant that only West Indian mothers will go to the wall for their children, using the emphasis she used on the word “their”.  Despite the opportunity, she could not or would not agree, even when pressed, that white and Asian...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 10th August 2010 To paraphrase: The inquiry government is not a court of forum for law, and no one is on trial governing IRAQ WAR ILLEGAL NOT ILLEGAL -ISH FREE MILK STILL FREE In our Big Society, where we ALL take the responsibility blame, the present government reminds me of one of the non-governmental organisations all governments promise to do away with, and then produce more of. I’m not suggesting that the present NGO hasn’t made a running start at law-making or at least laying down future lawmaking. It certainly has.  And it’s even thinking the unthinkable as did Frank Field for New Labour,...

This article of mine appears in the First Post:Non! Neil Clark bemoans the imminent sale of International Power to a French state owned group Just over 30 years ago, Britain's infrastructure, its public transport and its leading manufacturing industries were all in the hands of the British state. Who could have predicted that three decades later, much of our economy would be in the hands of the governments of other European countries? You can read the whole article...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end http://www.facebook.com/blairsupporter http://twitter.com/blairsupporter 8th August 2010 ROBERT HARRIS. THE BLAIR ASSASSIN BY PROXY? Harris:  “…in the middle of World War II, Winston Churchill would walk each morning from Downing Street to the Houses of Parliament with a single plainclothes policeman behind him, chatting to his constituents.  And that was during the biggest conflict in history.” By contrast, he says, he understands that the Blairs are still protected by 24 armed guards on rotation. ”I mean, you can’t live like that.” So what’s the alternative...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 3rd August 2010 This is the last of the reports of John Prescott at the Iraq Inquiry. [In grey I have headed each section for content identification.] Go to the Iraq Inquiry website for the entire video of the evidence of John Prescott, and the full (107 pages) transcript. _____ ASKED BY CHAIRMAN IF HE’D LIKE TO SAY A FEW PRELIMINARIES (P1-4 of transcript) – [Prescott's position, responsibilities in government. Tony Blair's approach. International Interventionism] RT. HON. THE LORD PRESCOTT: I would, Sir John, if I could.  First of all, to express my deepest sympathy to the families of those who lost their...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 3rd August 2010 Yes, I  know things have moved on since John Prescott told us on Friday that the Iraq invasion was legal and that – “I learned that true leadership is not about having the benefit of hindsight. It is about having a gift of vision, courage and compassion, and I believe that Tony Blair had all those three.” And I realise that the ConDem government is/are even more befuddled since David (burn him) Cameron put his undiplomatic foot in his big mouth, and since the Dem part of government has slipped in the polls to 12%. TWELVE PERCENT!!!??? And I know that Pakistan has even greater...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 2nd August 2010 (Apologies if I end up being rather loose with the word “idiot” or similes in this post.) They used to say during WW2 that “loose talk costs lives.”  It did then. It does now. Will someone tell the present prime minister? Pakistan Demonstrators Burn Effigy Of PM David Cameron In Terror Row Well done, Mr ‘Prime Minister’. Tony Blair led the country into two wars in the Middle East and remained in office for TEN YEARS and yet I haven’t been able to find an effigy of HIM being burned. Even whatsisname remained untoasted after 3 years. You, on the other hand,...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 1st August 2010 This post is Part 2 of Prescott at The Iraq Inquiry, following on from the previous – Iraq Inquiry (Part 1 of 4), John Prescott: Tony Blair had the gift of “true leadership” Before we go on, here’s a funny thing  - That reminds me – do you remember Prescott here in 2001? And Tony  Blair saying, “That’s John, for you.” We’ll leave on hold who exactly we thought Blair meant when he talked about a “clunking fist” just before he stood down. As usual I didn’t agree with the press’s analysis then.  It clearly wasn’t Brown, as we...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 31st July 2010 This post – “Prescott: Tony Blair had the gift of “true leadership” - is PART 1 of 4. Apologies if this series in the ongoing saga seems a touch overkill. There might be more before I’ve had my little old say. But I just couldn’t get it all into one post without going on and on and on and on …. …. and you know how I hate to go on. To come – Part 2,  Press’s “tittle tattle” BBC,  and Part 3 tittle tattle papers and Part 4, John Prescott, Straight Quotes, Unvarnished Truth. (Will link when completed.) John Prescott’s...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 29th July 2010 Following the murder of one of its citizens in Africa, France has declared war on Al-Qaeda and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April. The declaration and attack marked a shift in strategy for France, usually discrete about its behind-the-scenes battle against terrorism. “We are at war with al-Qaida,” Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel...

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This article of mine appears in the First Post. Neil Clark: You know the Tories are in trouble when the Telegraph and the Morning Star agree.Here’s an extract: The most interesting thing about British politics at present is the way that the ruling coalition's extreme neo-liberalism has put it on a collision course not just with the 'old' left, but with conservative Middle England. Aside from the Morning Star, there has been no daily newspaper more unrelentingly critical of the new government than the Daily Mail - the authentic voice of the country's small 'c' conservatives. You can read the whole of the article...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 27th July 2010 And be quick about it, before it gets even worse better Iraq, land of opportunity – says Jeffrey Archer (yes, him) at The Times Baghdad today."Land of opportunity" Pic: Getty I wonder if this appears anywhere else but the Times – as Rentoul reminds us here - behind a paywall? I shouldn’t think so.  Most of our press and half of our present government are still dreaming of getting Blair to The Hague for the “disaster” that is Iraq. Would you Adam and Eve it, Clegg? Ming? Anyone ever think to ask the locals what they think? OK, I will. Any Iraqis out there?...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 26th July 2010 John Rentoul has this on Hans Blix, the day before Dr Blix appears at the Iraq Inquiry. I bet The Daily Maul’s breath is bated. In fact it’s highly likely they have their “news” already seven-eighths written. So much for The Mail. REMINDER At the Iraq Inquiry in December last year – (h/t to Julie here) Sir Jeremy Greenstock (UK ambassador to the UN from 1998 until July 2003) said: “But I don’t think that Hans Blix was clear in his own mind and he makes this very plain in his book that the Iraqis either had weapons of mass destruction or did not have weapons of...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 26th July 2010 David Cameron, our so-called “leader”: ‘We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting against Hitler; we are the junior partner now. I think you shouldn’t pretend to be something you’re not.’ Catch-up time. I DO have another life. Honestly. Yes, I realise Cameron’s lack of historical knowledge regarding WW2 dates made most of the headlines, as did Clegg’s lack of understanding of his place at PMQs as a responsible coalition leader.  But to me there is an even more worrying issue. I have been racking the grey cells to try to recall another...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 22nd July 2010 At PMQs on Wednesday Nick Clegg to Jack Straw: “Perhaps one day you could account for your role in the most disastrous decision of all, which is the illegal invasion of Iraq.” Admittedly, we haven’t heard this announcement yet. But we will. Some of us WON’T let it (or HIM) lie until we DO. For Nicely Nicely Nick’s apology [the man with 'form' on rocking the constitution] here are a few rough working notes. Clearly he’s used to working from similar. STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT (The  Deputy Prime Minister) I would like to make it absolutely clear that I was...

Look how nice I am to you ... a post about the Cleregons, and no facial picture. I can spare you that at least. But then you don't need faces for gaffes – and gaffes there have been aplenty. First, we have The Great Leader (or The Boy, if you prefer ... although we could do a mind-meld and have The Great Bleader ... I digress, but then I told you I was in a silly mood.Any, onto the TGL, who is in Washington where, yesterday we picked him up from a WSJ talking about junior partners in the 1940s and the 1980s.But, without his speech writer to hand, having to go solo on Sky News, the Great Leader completely ballses it up, telling Boulton: "We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis."No we weren't. The Septics weren't even in the war then and, as for being...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 22nd July 2010 WOEFUL WEDNESDAY FOR THE CON-DEM COALITION There were so many cock-ups yesterday I’m thinking of starting a list. At least 5 in one day. From junior partner to the USA to leaving  or not leaving Afghanistan in 2014 maybe 2015, maybe not. Oh, and Cameron’s knowledge of the Americans’ entry year into WW2. From closing a detention centre – no, sorry, only the family part – to calling the Iraq war “illegal”, we’ve been having some fun and games today. And that’s not to mention Gary McKinnon and BP/Libya/Megrahi, and whatever was worked out on those two...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 21st July 2010 WAR CRIMES TRIAL FOR FORMER PM & COLLEAGUES Don’t get excited littlies. It’s not one of our former prime ministers (and colleagues.) Not Blair/Straw/Goldsmith. Not Blair/Campbell/HM Queen Elizabeth.  Not Blair/Brown/Cameron. Not … oh, use your imagination, as usual. At an appeal against earlier judgements at the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia a judgement has been handed down partially qaushing the acquitals of the former prime minister and two others. The three men have been retained in custody. ICTY – report: ‘Haradinaj, Balaj,...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end KEY: “Bliar” has two syllables. It scans better. That’s all it has going for it. Apologies to the original typo-maker 21st July 2010 (Dame) Eliza Doolittle belts it out sotto voce. JUST YOU WAIT, ‘ENRY ‘IGGINS TONY BLIAR*, JUST YOU WAIT You need to use a touch of imagination here. But if you’ve been following the Iraq Inquiry, you’re probably used to that. [My thanks to the Guardian's Crispin Black. Mr Black is an independent Intelligence consultant] Just you wait, ‘enry ‘iggins, just you wait! You’ll be sorry, but your tears’ll be to late! You’ll...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 19th July 2010 Damian Green, Immigration Minister: “… a ban would be ‘rather un-British’ and run contrary to the conventions of a ‘tolerant and mutually respectful society’.” This is despite a YouGov survey which found that 67 per cent of voters wanted the wearing of full-face veils to be outlawed. BURKA BAN: 2 COUNTRIES SAY “YES” WHILE 1 SAYS “NO” BANNED IN FRANCE AND SYRIA (REPEAT – SYRIA.) NOT BANNED IN BRITAIN. What IS this world coming to? Pan around to your left a little with that camera. You'll get a lovely picture of whatsername and...

Melanie Phillips doesn't seem to like Baroness Ashton. The "way in which she was appointed to her £270,000-a-year post and her subsequent performance in office have provided a veritable parable of the cavorting caravan of the contemptuous and the contemptible that is the EU," she writes.Interestingly, her piece gets 22 comments. The fatuous Spelman and her comments on burkas gets 367 (so far). And it's easy to jump on the band wagon and dismiss this woman as stupid ... but it has always been very obviously the case that this woman has been struggling with her brain cell count for an awful long time ... yet she still gets promoted! The woman really is seriously thick.We do have an interesting phenomenon here. How is it that stupid people are so attracted to politics, and why is it...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 19th July 2010 SO, DID YOU HEAR? No? Me neither. There are accounts at Durotrigan which seems balanced to me, and non-judgemental, “truth seeking” you might say. A commenter who says he was present says this: Van Grungy said… “The be all and end all of it is – as agreed by a number of people today – the Police simply didn`t want all the EDL who travelled in Dudley. 3 buses were laid on to ferry people to the demo. The buses went 2 miles or so to the demo point and never came back for the rest. Everyone started to walk, the police blocked everyone. After what seemed ages, most...

"Local communities will get the power and money to run bus services, set up broadband internet networks and take over neighbourhood recycling schemes under a mass transfer of power from the state to the people."That is the brave new world, to be announced by The Great Leader tomorrow in his so-called "big society initiative".The real question to address, though, is whether local communities could decide whether to abandon their "neighbourhood recycling schemes" and revert to landfill, as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly option.If the answer is "no", which of course it would be, then there is no transfer of power. This is merely a redistribution of the franchise – a permit transfer which simply allows different group to do the same things.One continues to wonder whether the...

Original Home Page – And another very early post from this blog Current Latest Page All Contents of Site – Index Sign the Ban Blair-Baiting petition here Comment at end 18th July 2010 Peter Mandelson accuses Brown’s henchman, Tom Watson (Source) A fat lot of good 'killing off' Blair did you, Mr Brown-Nose-Lackey-Watson. He [Mandelson] claims Mr Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, was acting under orders from Gordon Brown when he led a rebellion against Tony Blair which succeeded in forcing the former Prime Minister to quit Downing Street early....