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Now That Lord Levy’s Book Is Out, Tony Blair Should Have The Book Thrown At Him

April 28, 2008

Now that it has been revealed by Lord Levy in his memoirs that former prime minister Tony ‘five times a night’ Blair knew all the Labour lenders and donors and personally decided which ones should receive peerages I would like to ask this: is the police going to question him again and bring charges against him for lying during the previous investigation into the peers for peerages scandal? Because now that Lord Levy’s book is out, the book should be thrown at Blair for abusing his position and breaking the law on party funding.

Make no mistake, the loans for peerages affair was much bigger than the ‘watergate’ scandal because it allowed Blair to influence the democratic election process after he had so arrogantly dragged Britain into an illegal war with Iraq. There was no way Labour would have won the general election in 2005 without a huge cash injection by private donors because by that time Blair had become a hate figure and even many of his supporters had turned away from him. Lord Levy in his book, by the way, acknowledges that Blair was terrified of losing the 2005 election and was greatly relieved what things went his way. In effect he bought the election result with the money he had collected in return for honours. He should be held responsible for that, of only to convince people that justice still exists.

I still find it quite remarkable how Blair and his people at 10 Downing Street have been allowed to get away with destroying evidence and giving misleading information to the police during the investigation into the cash for peerages scandal. It was obvious that there was a conspiracy to hide the truth and protect Blair. That, by the way, constitutes perverting the course of justice and people are usually arrested for it and often kept in jail until the trial. Why on earth during the investigation the British press did not do some serious digging and reveal what was going on at 10 Downing Street, I honestly don’t know. But then again, this is the same press that had allowed Tony Blair and his closest people to get away with launching the war against Iraq under false pretences and then ‘proving’ that nothing illegal had been committed. Nothing illegal? How about lying to parliament and distorting intelligence reports? That would have been enough in itself to get Blair and his sidekick, Alistair Campbell, spending some quality time behind bars.

And another thing about the cash for peerages affair: how could it be that no one else at the top of the Labour party and in the cabinet knew anything about it? Are we actually still being asked to believe that as the general election was approaching in 2005 no one in the Labour hierarchy bothered to check where the money was coming from? And are we also to understand that Labour ministers just reckoned that their beloved Tony Blair must have found a way of raising cash fast and who were they to question his methods? Because that is what Tony is all about, you see. He is a straight kind of guy and doesn’t want others to worry about silly things like fund raising, letting them get on with their jobs.

Lord Levy also says in his book that Gordon Brown knew about the loan arrangements and even asked the lenders after becoming prime minister to continue bankrolling Labour. So that means that Mr Brown should probably be also asked a few questions by the boys in blue. To set the record straight, so to speak. To clear the air once and for all.

As a former PR man who knows how elections are fought and won I can tell you that Tony Blair knew perfectly well that he had absolutely no chance of winning in 2005. None at all. He knew that his role in starting the Iraq war had damaged him irreparably and weakened the Labour party as a whole. All this talk about him actually believing in what he was saying about weapons of mass destruction and the threat Iraq posed to Britain was total rubbish. Otherwise why would his people have ‘sexed up’ the Iraqi dossier? What would have been the point of launching a campaign of disinformation if it were an open and shut case? No, Tony Blair was pushing the case for war in the knowledge that the reward for supporting George Bush would measured in many millions of dollars in lecture tours and consultancies. And that’s why he was genuinely afraid that parliament would vote against the war, because his case was very weak indeed. Fortunately for him and unfortunately for all the rest it so happened that the then leader of Her Majesty’s opposition, one Iain Duncan Smith, had his own ideas about the war against Iraq and supported Blair. I still can’t understand why the ‘quiet man’ has not yet been pushed out of the Tory party and instead is taking part in formulating conservative policies for the future. Weird thing politics, isn’t it?

It is, of course, highly unlikely that Blair will ever answer for any of the disgusting things that he did during his stay at Number 10. I only hope that there would more books coming out in the future that would reveal how this chancer and opportunist damaged Britain and its international standing. At least it would prevent him from getting any cushy international posts that he so desires to occupy.

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