Richard North is right in saying that only historians will judge whether Blair was “right or wrong” over Iraq, however, it is certainly possible for us to comment now about his motivation for joining that war. That can be summed up in his own words, “I did what I thought was right” Not what “my cabinet” thought was right. This, I believe is the key to Blair’s character. He was a man of immense ambition, but an even greater ego, which was his ultimate downfall, for he consistently disdained all opposition to his ideas, however well reasoned or expressed. Consequently he surrounded himself with ego flatterers or ‘yes wo/men’and convinced himself that he always knew best what was good for us mere mortals.
Christina is right in saying that he debased the authority of Parliament, but is that not a condemnation of the calibre of our MPs themselves, on both sides of the House?
Had they been more concerned with their Parliamentary rights than with their personal careers and pensions Britain might now be a better place to live, having been freed much earlier from the cult of big brother Blair.
