Labour MPs will join fight in US to dislodge Bush

[Walt Starr]

Labour MPs will join fight in US to dislodge Bush
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor
(Filed: 25/07/2004)


Senior Labour MPs are clamouring to join the American presidential campaign of John Kerry this summer in a direct snub to the alliance between Tony Blair and President George W. Bush.

The avowed intent of a dozen MPs to dislodge Mr Bush threatens to embarrass Mr Blair at a difficult time in the war against terrorism. Yesterday one of the Labour MPs denounced Mr Bush as "a complete and utter menace to the future security of the world".

The group, which includes the former ministers Nick Brown and George Mudie, close friends of Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, is in talks with Mr Kerry's team with a view to campaigning on a freelance basis. Their plans are a problem for Mr Blair because he had hoped to reposition himself to prepare for the possibility of a Kerry victory with more subtlety.

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[donco6]

1. Couldn't agree more:

Bush is "a complete and utter menace to the future security of the world".

Exactamundo.

[shockingelk]

12. Any more names?

Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali is attending the convention.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-7-2004_pg7_47

Anyone else?

[realisticphish]

2. tee hee

an international coalition of the willing...

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[lovuian]

3. Labour better do something or it will be destroyed by Blair

Its in the process...Labour Knows they have to break this Alliance up

Good for them

[olddem43]

4. We have to be careful -

Bushco could turn this into an issue, and maybe to their advantage.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Way to stand up for what is right

The avowed intent of a dozen MPs to dislodge Mr Bush threatens to embarrass Mr Blair at a difficult time in the war against terrorism. Yesterday one of the Labour MPs denounced Mr Bush as "a complete and utter menace to the future security of the world".<<

Woah... they have "thinking" people over there... how nice!!

Shrub needs to get back over there and straighten them boyz out... make 'em protest in a blue square... call them "unpatriotic" teach 'em a thing or two about Amurkan democracy.

[AP]

11. Too true. Americans don't like it when foreigners tell us who should

be president.

[jimshoes]

6. A lot of Canadians feel the same way too...

This magazine cover spells it out pretty plainly. This was posted last night by NYCGIRL.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2052863#2053165

[Dover]

7. LMAO!!! That's GREAT! Ohhhhhh Cannnnada...I heart you!

No mincing words, eh.

[Dover]

8. The British are coming, the British are coming!

This time they're wearing BLUE!

[shockingelk]

9. LOL + "I got cher foreign leader that want Buswh out right here"

:toast:

[AP]

10. The idea that Blair isn't rooting for Kerry is absurd.

[struggle4progress]

13. Labour needs to generate MORE noise about Iraq:

we need the Butler report trashed, we need Wilson rehabilitated, we need apologies to the BBC, we need constant noise about Abu Ghraib and torture of detainees.