There is a dark cabal around Blair

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1039694,00.html

Thursday September 11, 2003

Lord Hutton's journey into the heart of Britain's secret government is about to resume. The recall of witnesses to his inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death will be announced tomorrow, following today's report by the parliamentary intelligence committee into how the spooks appear to have blundered in their assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons programme.

Hutton's main concern is the treatment of Kelly and the way he was used by Downing Street in its fight with the BBC. Leaks yesterday suggested that the beleaguered defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, may be the intelligence committee's principal target - rather than the way intelligence was distorted about the supposed threat from Iraq.

But both divert us from a much more significant, sinister and dangerous development behind the political point-scoring and Whitehall's self-serving blame culture. What has already emerged - but been largely ignored - from the Hutton inquiry is the existence of a dark, almost Jacobean, cabal at the core of the Blair administration.

It is a group of powerful, unelected people few would have heard of were it not for the evidence given to Hutton: Sir David Manning, the prime minister's foreign policy adviser; Sir David Omand, his security coordinator; and John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee. Until he resigned, the group also included Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications director. Indeed, he was a prime mover in establishing this inner circle.

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[Flying_Pig]

1. Yes, it's the British branch of PNAC, and Tony....

isn't just a poodle to Bush, he's joined the most evil people on face of this planet ...P-N-A-C. Blair, like Bush, is a traitor to his country, his people, and his planet, and should receive an appropriate punishment, befitting those who commit crimes against humanity.

:mad:

[lindashaw]

2. Wow, and here I thought since they're saying the WMD thing....

wasn't sexed up, things were cooling off! Silly me!

[GreenArrow]

3. Good Lord, Holmes!

It sounds almost like...like...like a...conspiracy!

[KoKo]

4. Kick........it does sound like Blair has "shadow government" like US!

:kick:

[hang a left]

5. "Dark Actors" indeed.

[Nottingham]

6. NO KIDDING!! England 's Democracy is in trouble!

:bounce:

[T_i_B]

7. It all comes down to Blair's landslide majority

Which consists very much of the most sycophantic swine going who will not stand up to Blair and hold the government to account under any circumstances.

Because of this Blair does not have very much at all holding him back from doing whatever he likes regardless of what anyone else thinks. Blair appears to feel that he can shaft the people he is supposed to serve as much as possible and has become arrogant beyond belief about it.

No wonder the politicians and the people are so far apart. Blair may have had one or two good points during his first term but this second landslide of his has been a disaster for Britain. Britain's democracy is in a very sickly state.