Is There Just One To Blame?
Dear Reader, It is inevitable that there is a cry to bring an individual "to justice" for this or that, but even for the most basic malfeasance there is often some other factor that influenced the act to be perpetrated. In Tony Blair's case there were - I believe - several influencing factors, but perhaps the most important factor was how the 9/11 phenomenon gained the sympathy to swing the matter to support the US. B ut I have to say that I believe that a further major factor was in the rise of 'New' Labour, and its apparent attempt to be all things to all people. Not long after Tony Blair took over as leader of the Labour Party, one of his acts was to remove the famed "Clause 4" from the Party rulebook, and though I can understand why he thought it was "old hat", the principle in the clause was to link the importance of the ordinary worker to the wealth of the country - that the worker was just as much an important cog in the economic