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November 24, 2004
Blair impeachment: a mass movement?
Twenty-three MPs have now initiated the Commons procedure for the Prime Minister to be impeached for misleading parliament over the reasons for invading Iraq.
Critics of the measure have said that it is a ‘publicity stunt’. It’s not. It’s a valid procedure when an individual minister is required to answer charges in person. Blair was at the heart of all the decision making relating to the war - in Washington, Westminster and Whitehall. Involvement of the cabinet and parliament was limited. Only Blair knows the time period and extent of British participation in war plans. For that reason impeachment is more appropriate than the limited enquiries into aspects of the background to the war, none of which were focused on the role of the Prime Minister.
Impeachment is not likely to succeed In the absence of Liberal Democrat support, and it may not even be debated in the commons, but I hope it will become the focus of a movement outside parliament to hold the Prime Minister to account for the war.
Perhaps at the next election we will be able to vote for ‘pro-impeachment’ candidates?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4037375.stm
Posted by Simon Holledge at November 24, 2004 11:30 AM
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