Justice Cherie Booth has ruled in a landmark case that the former Prime Minister cannot be prosecuted over the Iraq War.
Former Iraqi General Abdul Wahed Shanna al Rabbat’s unsuccessful attempt to bring a private prosecution is thought to be the first case to fail on the new “Article 50 Principle”.
The Something or other Al Rabbat v St Anthony of Blair case enshrines as precedent that “Someone with a jolly foreign sounding name like yours cannot threaten an Englishman.”
And quite right too. St Anthony of Blair, was already well known as one of the UK’s greatest peacetime Prime Ministers. His peacetime track record, running a fiscal surplus to pay down the national debt accrued by the Major government’s structural deficit post our exit from the ERM, drew consistent praise at the time. His economic legacy though, is surpassed by his role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
And now, with the High Court agreeing with Lord Chilcott, he has now been judged one of our most credible wartime leaders.
Yes, this leader, who had Kosovan Albanian children named after him after swift and appropriate military intervention saved their parents from Serbian paramilitaries, yes, that Tony Blair, has been wholly exonerated. Praise him.
“This is NONSENSE,” Gareth Healey of Rochdale Momentum said in reaction, “I refuse to accept any view of Blair that does not accord with my own. He is a traitor, and I will keep saying that the Labour party you elected three times was led by a corrupt charlatan and is still infested by his cronies. That is how you get elected and stop the Tories.”
Tony Blair is Scottish.
