Chilcot/Leadership Contest Mashup

[changeling67]

Chilcott Paperwork c/o Twitter

I haven't commented on the Brexit fiasco for a few days, suffice to say that discussing the news brings extra followers (I'm in the top 400 now on LJ), but not good for the senses.  All of the referendum fluster has calmed down a bit, essentially covered over temporarily by the resurfacing of the Chilcot Enquiry.  I suppose it's that time of the year.  Flowers are in bloom, the sun is out, we are half way through Wimbledon and it's about time that the general (nay international) public were whitewashed yet again re the details of the Chilcot Enquiry.  The ususal warmongers have been wheeled out again, with predictable levels of denial.

Basically, the bullet points are underneath the cut as so is the Beeb Link

• Sir John Chilcot's Iraq War inquiry report is published after seven years

• UK joined Iraq invasion "before peaceful options for disarmament exhausted" - and military action was "not last resort"

• Threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were "presented with certainty that was not justified"

• Consequences of Iraq invasion were underestimated "despite explicit warnings", Sir John says

• Planning and preparation for period after the fall of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was "wholly inadequate"

• Inquiry set up by ex-PM Gordon Brown in June 2009 to look into run-up to 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath

BEEB LINK

Ironic that they rubbished Charles Kennedy at the time, interesting that Tim Farron (leader of the LibDems <---- hey, where have YOU been during the Brexit campaign?) has lept on that nugget.  This is swinging back into Tony Blair's camp - that basically he was no 'tag along,'  that he was complicit in seeing through Jerge Dubya's hellish crusade.  No doubt the supposed suicide of Dr David Kelly will come back into focus too.  I will refrain from comment now and see what this enquiry will bring.  However, I doubt the likes of Tony Blair will ever be found guilty or brought to justice if he IS found to be in the wrong.

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Back to the leadership contest.  Crabbe is out, as so is Fox - leaving the two ladies (May and Leadsom) and....Gove.  Boris is backing Leadsom (I bet he is!!) and Crabbe is supporting May.   No sign of Cameron around - where IS Wally???  Wafting around, basically - an unveiling here, a f***ing-up-of-an-economy there * .  The Dutch think we have collapsed across the spectrum.  Their PM Mark Rutte is saying that the UK has  now "collapsed - politically, economically, monetarily and constitutionally" yesterday.  I DO think we are in crisis, which will take a long time to recover - BUT....this is not being helped that the joint political parties are STILL running round like headless chickens, blaming the voting public for not voting 'Remain' or not voting 'Remain' enough.

Forget divorcing from the EU - the UK politcal parties have run their trust of the public into the ground and then cite the UK public for 'irreconcilable differences.'  I have seen more stability and truth from Mark Carney (present Bank of England Govenor) in recent days, that I have from the People. Who. Are. Meant. To. Represent. Us.  The People In Power - Where the f**k ARE you? All we can see is the ugly site of you lot slitting each other's throats for a place at the high table, slicing your fellow candidates like wafer thin ham.

*I beg your pardon - Call Me Dick Dave is in da House of Commons, telling his fellow members of the House that we 'should reflect' on Chilcot's findings and rethink how they tackle war in the future.  How about 'let's not ever start/join in on another one?'

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Chilcot ---- BUT WE KNEW ALL THIS IN 2003!"!!!! Still. its nice to see it in print. Teflon Tony (ooooh he's got ugly lately...hahahah GOOD!) really is so slimy, and I always thought that if you were miserly with the truth it meant you WERE lying... merely by NOT saying, omission is commision... !!!

Oh and don't mention poor poor Dr. Kelly... Gawd.. I HATE some people for that... that was MURDER... a political decision and command from someone... erm. oh him - that ugly one!

I despair of ALL governmental people - they are just such 'different' people.. (if they are people even?) They don't appear ever to have anything in common with real folk - them as thinks, and feels and pays the bills.

From here, I can see someone has pulled the plug and the water is going down the hole...... Can ANYONE grab the baby????? Don't seem to have anyone at all watching the bath!!!

Oh And I've devoured Article 50... which led me back to art. 49... INTERESTING!!!!! which means we really don't have to bother, and if Brexit DOES ever happen.... we CAN re-apply to join again... despite what Schultz and Juncker say! hahahah they'll both be ded by then anyway.

Who's got the fiddle to be playing while the baby goes down the plughole... to mix all the cliches or metaphores or whatevers!?

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

He is really being slammed today. UK politicians have never looked so shady.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Hahah we have TWO LADIES!!! (watch the bitching there heh heh heh) cos Gove even LOST some of his support before being dropped like a cold piece of toast.

Everyone is now saying that Droopy Dave is only saying Sept 9 for his leaving day cos he wants a 'swan song' at the Nato Summit then. (Actually, he has been a bit like a swan. All smooth and 'untouchable' on top but paddling like f'''g hell underneath, and is also MUTE - so the swan song might be unheard!

I hear swan is a lovely bird to have - Roasted!!!!!) teehee.

Seriously... out in the Channel without any paddles at all!

GOTTA PADDLE, Ms May??? (She will have to be instructed on what a paddle could look like... she's so indecisive she won't know which side to paddle on!) Oh god. sorry.. Me gloating... see icon!! heheheh

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

It's gonna be a long time til the leadership vote (September? Who knows?). Think this year will go down as being the year that the international public has been drowned to the sound of too much politics.