Yo, Blair!, the overheard aside from President to Prime Minister at the St Petersburg summit is the appalling proof that Blair has destroyed Britain as an independent nation. That is his true legacy. So argues Geoffrey Wheatcroft, renowned Fleet Street commentator, in this trenchant and perfectly timed polemic. From the beginning, Blair was 'a prime minister without a party', he is now in office but not in power, despised and spurned by the country he notionally governs. His relentless assaults on individual freedom and the law are all too typical of a man who has sneered at 'libertarian nonsense'. He who once made capital out of Tory sleaze is mired in corruption. His policies on health, education and crime were largely filtched from the Tories. Above all, he took the country into Iraq, a needless, illegal and unpopular war on flagrantly false pretences - and that war's deepest significance is now clear: under Blair we have become a client state of Washington, the British army serving as the American Foreign Legion. When defending his latest repressive measures, Blair has regularly used the haunting phrase 'It's worse than you think. I really believe in it'.
'It's worse than you think' could be the epitaph of his career.
- ISBN10 184724128X
- ISBN13 9781847241283
- Publish Date 23 November 2006
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 28 January 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quercus Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 220
- Language English