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England is a nicer place to be right now. We don’t have the relentless siege of Blair’s lies anymore. What a relief. Blair's hubris still shines from afar as he bleats about terrorism and gives instructions about US-NATO, while earning himself £millions from speeches no one should pay to hear. Blair's shadow still hangs over us: Trident; longer pretrial detention; ID cards; 6 million surveillance cameras; shameful ‘rendition’; access to phone records by government agencies; nuclear power; and the pointless ‘robocop’ British soldiers in Basra, whose feelings are echoed by american soldiers, some of whom avoid patrol.

And Brown? Henry Porter of the Observer has him, and Jack-be-nimble-Straw, sussed. Brown should sack this Blair cabinet minister and replace with someone who doesn't feel like part of the Gestapo Gang. Why is secret funding for GM crop projects tolerated? Why the dangerous backdown on climate change? Why is Brown allowing the US to upgrade the air base at the British island protectorate of Diego Garia for their Iran attack plans? Why is this very same island allowed to be used for secret prisons? Visiting King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is getting the Red Carpet treatment. What will Gordon Brown discuss with him? More arms agreements with discredited BAE? Torture evidence? Containing the Bush bombs in Iran? Why is Brown sending 850 more troops to Iraq despite an earlier pledge? And why is he sending Scottish troops to a "lost" Afghanistan which "cannot be won" ?

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