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Voice1 Donating Member (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 07:07 AM
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28. Some history on Labour leadership
Thought this page would be useful for you freedom Angel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_leadership_election,_1994

John Prescott's now our deputy PM, many feel he's betrayed his roots, coming from a working class background, he's helped Blair to rubber stamp some very right wing policies, Margaret Beckett was the stand in leader after the former leader, John Smith ( a man who I thought had real principles, a much better man than Blair) died.

Prescott and Beckett are still members of the cabinet, and as such, they are heavily involved in the decision to invade Iraq illegally. The same with Brown, who, it's believed is likely to take over from Blair, but Labour leftwingers aren't happy about it, because Brown would not really be much more different than Blair.

I've not read about getting the military aircraft from Carlyle business, i'll certainly try to find some information on that, but there's certainly something dodgy about the sell off of Qinetiq:

http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/10/qinetiq-blair-carlyle-cx_po_0210autofacescan10.html

As to the Queen helping the CIA with torture flights, I really haven't read anything about that.

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