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Sir Keir Starmer says it is well deserved…so it must be……
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Sir Keir Starmer says it is well deserved…so it must be……
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I think this particular one is the Queens decision mate, not Boris's
Yep. Blair Probs got his wife to look over Andrews legal woes and advise accordingly.
For that great favour I will bestow upon thee a knighthood.
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It's no wonder Armando Iannucci packed in writing more series of 'The Thick of It' when this is our reality
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Wow…..
Geoff Hoon says he was ordered by Downing street to burn a secret memo that said the 2003 invasion of Iraq could be illegal.
When the claim emerged in 2015, Sir Tony said it was 'nonsense'. But Mr Hoon, who was in charge of defence when the war started, insists the allegation was true and he has now given a sensational blow-by-blow account of a No 10 'cover-up'.
He says his principal private secretary was told 'in no uncertain terms' by Jonathan Powell, Sir Tony's chief of staff, that after reading the document he must 'burn it'. Mr Hoon said the MoD mandarin was deeply alarmed by the order – and they defied Downing Street by locking the memo in a safe instead.
this should be fun…
Geoff Hoon says he was ordered by Downing street to burn a secret memo that said the 2003 invasion of Iraq could be illegal.
When the claim emerged in 2015, Sir Tony said it was 'nonsense'. But Mr Hoon, who was in charge of defence when the war started, insists the allegation was true and he has now given a sensational blow-by-blow account of a No 10 'cover-up'.
He says his principal private secretary was told 'in no uncertain terms' by Jonathan Powell, Sir Tony's chief of staff, that after reading the document he must 'burn it'. Mr Hoon said the MoD mandarin was deeply alarmed by the order – and they defied Downing Street by locking the memo in a safe instead.
this should be fun…
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Be an absolute meteor strike if the Iraq war is found to have been illegal and prosecuted under false pretences. Going to take some time for that to sink in - who would have suspected such a thing?
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Well obviously at the time we all knew this, but for Hoon to stitch him up is quite funny……
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Being serious, we would not have participated in the Iraq war if a single senior cabinet minister (e.g. Geoff Hoon) had resigned, following Robin Cook. That is all it would have taken as the infamous parliamentary vote was life and death for Blair's government (Fortunately for him he had the Tory votes to rely on for this issue).
So if Hoon is indeed saying this (and I haven't read today's story - it appears to be a Daily Mail thing?) it puts him in an appalling light - Blair told me to burn the memo but I didn't lolsorrynotsorry
The iraq war is rightly used as a stick to beat Blair and Labour with but only a couple of Tory MPs voted against it. They would have known exactly what it was all about along with the rest of the population as well.
The vast majority who stood up against that crime would be considered dangerous commies by our flag waving populace
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False agent who based reports on action film told MI6 Saddam had WMD
MI6 was led to believe that Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by a false agent who based his reports on Hollywood blockbuster The Rock, the Chilcot Inquiry has revealed.
www.standard.co.uk
Farcical tradecraft by SIS, re Iraq and WMD.
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