New Statesman's front cover today: picture of a rucksack with "Blair's Bombs" written beside it.

Succinctly sums up what how badly the Left has lost its way.

"Somebody definitely went to the ground and as they went to the ground I heard gun fire and assumed they had been shot."

It's a good job he wasn't an SF/IRA man, of we'd have thje usual whingers going on about a police "shoot to kill" policy.

Yeah, Keith, he was a coloured man runing away from police, how much more guilty can you get?

New Statesman's front cover today: picture of a rucksack with "Blair's Bombs" written beside it.

Succinctly sums up what how badly the Left has lost its way.

Posted by: Deaglan

Deaglan,
I think your wrong, it is the duty of non governmental political activists to ask questions of their government. You may disagree with the questions asked, hard luck, this is what democracy is all about. get used to it, honour it and defend it, or would you prefer top live in a dictatorship? By the way, you should not suppose it is just those of us on the left who are asking questions about Blair involving the UK in Iraq, there are just as many people who are liberals, conservatives and non aligned who feel this war has been a disaster, especially for the Iraqi people.

Regards

Mick

"It's a good job he wasn't an SF/IRA man, of we'd have thje usual whingers going on about a police "shoot to kill" policy."

It's a good job he wasn't a scotsman carrying a broken bit of furniture..

Mick,

Ask questions of government by all means but squarely blaming "Blair" (code for UK foreign policy) for a pitiless attack on random Londoners of all faiths and none is a sign that the Left is more interested in seeing the West get a bloody nose than finding a solution to all this.

They weren't "Blair's bombs" they were the jihadis' bombs. Understanding is one thing - diluting responsibility from the bombers is quite another.

Best,
Deaglan

I fail to see how any criticism of government policy, especially a critcism linking British policy in Iraq with the London bombings has anything whatsoever to do with diluting the responsibility of suicide bombers.
Thinking in the UK is in a state remniscient of the immediate aftermath of 9/11 when, if anyone tried to make the link between US policy and the suicide bombings, that those people were somehow "traitorous" and obviously "against us" because there were only those two options available. That is a policy which sees things in black and white identifies morality with a government policy and is designed to stifle free thinking. In other words, the same brainwashed mentality that drives the suicide bombers.

Again - asking questions is fine. Even bringing Iraq into it is - again - fine and a legitimate line of debate.
But for Pilger (in NS) to say they were "Blair's bombs" is wrong and demonstrates how Left-wing analysis in Britain has mostly descended into anti-US/UK sentiment. Ditto G. Galloway and his SWP/radical Islamist "Respect" coalition.