The impeachment of Tony Blair

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Commons motion to impeach Blair gets go-ahead



David Hencke, Westminster correspondent
Friday November 19, 2004
The Guardian

The parliamentary motion to impeach Tony Blair for "gross misconduct" over the war against Iraq will be published next Wednesday, the day after the Queen's speech.

It will be the first to be tabled in 198 years, since Lord Melville, a close friend of the then prime minister, William Pitt the younger, faced impeachment for misusing public money in running the Admiralty.

Senior parliamentary officials, including legal advisers to the Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, on Wednesday night approved the wording of the text as meeting parliamentary rules, allowing the motion to be tabled on the first day of the new session. The Tory chief whip, David Maclean, has paged every Tory frontbench MP telling them not to sign it.

The Liberal Democrats are divided, with Jenny Tonge, the MP for Richmond, among those supporting the idea and Sir Menzies Campbell, the party's foreign affairs spokesman, strongly opposing it. No Labour MP is expected to sign the motion for fear of losing the party whip for bringing the leader into disrepute.

The motion, which was drawn up by Douglas Hogg, the MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham and son of the former Tory lord chancellor Lord Hailsham, is attracting support among backbench MPs who would not normally support the same cause.

The latest recruits among the 25 backing the call are George Galloway, the deselected Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin, who is suing the Daily Telegraph for libel over allegations he took money from Saddam Hussein, and John Gummer, the former Tory environment secretary and MP for Suffolk Coastal.
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Adam Price, the Plaid Cymru MP who launched the campaign for the motion, said yesterday: "This is the only way left to MPs to call the prime minister to account over his conduct in the war against Iraq."

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We saw this too. Let's see what the British people are really made of, considering 70% of the population doesn't like Blair. It will ruin the Labor Party, but that's the price you pay for Dancing with Demons.

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70% of the population doesn't like Blair. That could read ,70% of the population doesn't like Bush. If Blair gets the boot,Dubya is on his own in the new Warsaw Ghetto,Iraq. Britain may be the next country to be attacked by Osama, probably during the impeachment process. That will get the Brits back in the war mood.

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Yep,

You might be right Increase. Another Madrid-like attack. The difference is the British people are a bit more aware than the American public, and they might not be fooled, as the Spanish people were not.

It would be lovely seeing Bush, with his one ally, John Howard, standing alone. Speaking of which, how the hell did Howard get in again? The Australians were also overwhelmingly against the Iraq invasion

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" Speaking of which, how the hell did Howard get in again? The Australians were also overwhelmingly against the Iraq invasion" Can you say Diebold.