The triumphant pair, Bush in his valiant airman’s leather jacket and Blair in his ball-breaker cords, at the Presidential retreat where they cooked up their plan to cheat the world and set fire to the Middle East.

David Cameron After the revelations about his Greensill Company shenanigans, would he be a fit person to consult on any financial matter accounting for more than couple of quid?

He used his links to top members of the government to lobby on behalf of Greensill in seeking loans for the company from the tax-payer-funded scheme to support businesses during the pandemic. For that he received a salary of $1 million for two-and-a-half years of part-time work, topped up by a bonus of $700,000. In addition, he received shares with a sale value of $4.5 million. Adding up all those bits, he trousered £10 million.

He knew that the company for which he was lobbying was in danger of failing, which it eventually did.  He was not seeking support for Greensill in order to serve the national interest; he was seeking a bail-out in order to further enrich David Cameron.

 

This is the man, who as Prime Minister, committed himself to curbing the scandal of lobbying at Westminster. In short, he is a money-grubbing, deceitful, totally discredited ex-politician.  I, for one, do not wish to hear him on the radio any more than I wish to hear that totally discredited war criminal Blair, let alone his semi-literate pea-brained mate George Dubya Bush or their partner in crime, Alastair Campbell, master of perfidy.

Let’s remind ourselves of  Blair’s capers.

After 9/11, for which Saudi Arabian jihadists were chiefly responsible, he connived with Bush to fabricate a case for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. These wars have cost billions in money and millions in bodies. Their US and British armies carried out torture, secret rendition, illegal detention and a multitude of crimes against humanity.

These same forces are now slinking out of Afghanistan, leaving it to the fanatical Taliban, who will return the country to the Dark Ages. Afghanistan, like Iraq, is now little more than a grave-strewn battlefield. The Blair-Bush legacy can also be found at the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, where prisoners have been incarcerated, without charge or trial,  for decades. The fore-runners of the Taliban were trained and financed in Pakistan at the behest of the USA and intended to fight Soviet forces when they occupied Afghanistan. Now the Taliban are biting the hand that fed them. Guantanamo is still in business.

As a member of the Stop The War Coalition, I opposed and demonstrated against the invasions of Iraq Afghanistan.

History has proved us right. If the billions spent on these wars had instead been given to aid the development of Iraq and Afghanistan, the world would be a more peaceful place.

Cameron, Blair, Bush, Campbell, may they never again blight my radio or TV.