Is Tony Blair a traitor?

@Harriet03 Best answer awarded for wit and entertainment value, if not strictly for relevance. Thanks also to everyone else for some interesting replies.

@MartinII pfftt

@pdqsailor1 No.

@MartinII Good.. The man is a bombastic clown and the world does not need bombastic clowns....Not everyone is supportive of Brexit... or what it will cost the UK.

@whowasthatmaskedman Technically you are right. Whether the same is true in practice, given the conduct of Brexit negotiations, I’m not quite so sure!

@MartinII I would be more concerned with the British who wanted a No Deal Deal. They stand to make more money and have a strong motivation to take short cuts to get what they want.

@whowasthatmaskedman It was never the "Common Market". That was Edward Heath's name for the European Economic Community (now the European Union of the Cities and Regions, to give its characteristically unwieldy but revealing full title).

It had always puzzled me why France in General Charles de Gaulle's time resisted Britain joining the EEC. I learnt only recently it was not pique. He realised the UK and the EEC were just not compatible, for various reasons.

On the other hand, Heath knew and supported the aim he denied but has never been a secret, of the Community / Union becoming eventually a single nation - hence the EU's full title. Well, he appeared to had some encouragement, being alleged to have collected a handsome personal cash "award" for signing the country's accession.

As for Tony Blair, his disdain for Britain, and especially England, was pretty clear when he was Prime Minister.

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There is one very odd aspect to de Gaulle's post-War premiership. In the closing stages of WW2, the RAF discovered and bombed what would have been the Nazi's V3 weapon, later found to be not missiles but a very-long-range gun battery, being built near Calais, aimed at London about 90 miles to the North. Canadian forces captured the site after D-Day. For reasons we will probably never know, Gen. de Gaulle did not want the battery destroyed....

@Burnley123 Why wasn't your answer marked BA? I would have made it so if it was my question.

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout actually yes, they had them in 91'; with the information available at the time, was no reason not to believe that they were producing them again/still had them in stockpile

The UN security council dropped the ball on that one; it was their responsibility to ensure disarmament and accountability instead of depending on unreliable Iraqi inspectors...🤔

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Tony Blair didn't end 18 years of Tory misery, he added another 13 years of it on. He's no Labour man, he's a closet Tory and he always will be. He's also a worse dictator than Thatcher ever was.

@Crazychick Come on, neither Blair nor Thatcher, nor any other British Prime Minister, was a dictator, whatever you might think of them.

@MartinII Blair is.