Whatgetsmygoat

You have got to be kidding me!Tony Blair is seriously being touted as President of the European Council, with Gordon Brown supporting him.Has the world gone mad?

Tony Blair was not a committed European. During the ten years that he spent in Downing Street, he was so pro American to the point of embarassment. He willingly supported Bill Clinton when he bombed Iraq in 1998,and joined in the war in Kososvo.After 9/11, Blair was the first European leader to fly to Washington to express his support to George W Bush.Blair willingly agreed to the invasion of Iraq, even though there was no link between Saddamm Hussein and Al Qaeda. We were told repeatedly that there was intelligence that indicated that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and that there was clear and present danger to our security. Blair stood in parliament and spouted all this bullshit, perhaps convincing himself that this was the truth.

The French and the Germans were not convinced, and for their sins, they were subjected to attacks in the media, basically calling them cowards.How can Blair call himself a good European?

We never got a referendum on the euro,party because he was too much of a pussy with Rupert Murdoch. The support of the Sun was seen as far more important than our long term economic future.That was Tony Blair's committment to the European project.

I suspect that ego and vanity is a major factor in this. Some leaders become addicted to motorcades and entourages that they find it hard to let go.

Tony Blair is just the wrong man for the job.

Let's be blunt: Nick Griffin is a racist m___________r, who leads a nasty vile party. He is a white supremacist who would probably love to see anyone who is not white sent to the far corners of the Earth.He's that charming!The BNP are a bunch of racists that hark back to another era. We know exactly where the BNP is coming from.

Despite this,we cannot pretend that the BNP don't exist.Afterall,they now have elected members in the European Parliament.The recent leaked list of the BNP members reveals that its members include teachers, nurses, the Police and(ahem)the clergy.So the members are not knuckle dragging Neanderthals ,but they cut across all sections of society. Therefore, we should be given the opportunity to hear Nick Griffin live on Question Time. He cannot claim that his words were edited or taken out of context. We can hear the garbage that comes out of the sewer that he calls a mouth.

I object to the Anti Nazi League or any left wing pressure group telling me what to think. I got into an argument with some guy who wanted me to sign a petition outside the LSE.I told him that Nick Griffin should be heard on the BBC because we can make up our minds.Shouting him down or banning him is what he wants.That feeds into his warped view that he speaks the Truth.Let us listen to this Holocaust denier spout his crap.He will condemn himself with his own words, and show us who he really is.

By the way, it would be fun to give Griffin a DNA test. Wouldn't it be hilarious if he Asian or Black blood somewhere in his gene pool!

In the United States, there is a debate within the Obama Administration about the strategy to fight the war in Afghanistan.Do we send more troops or do we use more planes and drones to fight the Taliban? It's almost certain that Barack Obama will send more troops based on General McCrystal's report,to fight the insurgents.

My qustion is: where is the debate in this country?There is no discussion here about strategy or Britain's interests. I get the impression is that Gordon Brown is waiting for Obama to give the green light so that he can send more British troops. Is that what we are Little Miss Echo?Neither the Tories nor Labour have engaged in any strategic debate on Britain's long time interests. Do we have to send more troops to fight in a country for a regime that is corrupt and whose legitimacy is in serious doubt? Our interest should not, must not be to copy the United States. We should map out what is best for Britain.

For so long,Britain's foreign policy seemed to rubber stamp Washington. From the Gulf War in 1991, Kosovo,the invasion of Iraq and the current in Afghanistan, we have opted to support both Bushes and the Clinton Administration. Tony Blair was so keen to cosy up to the USA that he joined George W Bush in a crazy war in Iraq based on faulty, some would say doctored intelligence. Britain's reputation has never recovered.

One of the few British leaders to see Britain's interests may be different from Washington's was Ted Heath. He drove through Britain's entry into the then EEC in 1972.He was not that keen to suck up to Washington.Our long term interests lay in being part of this political-economic power bloc.He was right.

If David Cameron does enter Downing Street,then he will need to conduct a review about Britain's interests abroad.

I have a horrible feeling that he will be Tony Blair-lite.He may prove me wrong.

Can someone explain to me why Carol Thatcher gets sacked by the BBC for calling someone a golliwog and yet Anton Du Beke is still on Strictly Come Dancing despite using the P-word?There is a contradiction there.I find it hard to believe that he hasn't been suspended or sacked. Why?

The P-word is just as offensive as the N-word. Yes,I know that rap stars use it, and some black people use it when speaking with each other BUT that still does not blunt the nasty racist history that the N-word has.This is the word used during slavery, after slavery was abolished and is used today by racists, all over the world. Ron Atkinson lost his job as a football pundit because he failed to recognise that using the word nigger is a no-no. I suspect that this was how Big Ron spoke in private.His reputation has never quite recovered.

My feeling is that the BBC do not regard the P-word as having the same power as the N-word. In other words, one is regarded as very offensive, while one is seen as unpleasant. If Anton du Beke had done a Big Ron, I think he would have been thrown out the door so fast, his feet would not touch the ground.

We need to start talking about race a lot more in this country. I cannot recall a single speech by Gordon Brown about race.He is keen to suck up to Barack Obama, but when has he ever spoken about racism?In the United States, they talk about race to the point of obsession, over here we hardly discuss it.I have yet to hear David Cameron give a speech about race.

The world is changing,no one can used the Paki and claim that they are joking. Words have power and can cause offense. Someone should tell Anton du Beke. He clearly hasn't got a clue.