TONY BLAIR one of the MOST DISREPUTABLE - DUPLICITOUS and DISHONEST

PRIME MINISTERS IN BRITISH HISTORY

By

PETER OBORNE

[ON POLITICS AND POWER]

This week will come to define the final, ghastly days of Blair as Black Wednesday symbolised

JOHN MAJOR

When Alistair Campbell left Downing Street in the wake of the death of Iraqi weapons expert

Dr David Kelly

-the Prime Minister's allies explicitly stated that

HE HAD LEARNT HIS LESSON

They said that there would be

NO MORE SPIN

NO MORE BURYING OF BAD NEWS

Government henceforth was to be conducted on a straightforward basis.

HOW UTTERLY WRONG THESE CLAIMS HAVE TURNED OUT

 TO BE.

I have been keeping a file of ministerial lies and deceptions, and it is bulging.

ONLY last week, Defence Secretary Des Browne was forced to apologise to MPs after a leaked document showed that

HE HAD MISLED THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS

-about plans to axe allowances to

BRITISH FORCES in the WAR ZONE

EARLIER this month, General Sir Mike Jackson, the former Head of the Army said that he warned MINISTERS about the EXTREME DANGER of the AFGHANISTAN expedition, exposing as a piece of tawdry SPIN John Reid's remarks that he hoped our soldiers would return

'Without a shot being fired'

TONY BLAIR'S promise that our under-equipped Armed Forces would be provided with whatever they needed to fight their battles is another pledge that turned out

TO BE A FABRICATION.

BUT MINISTERS do not lie just about FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Last month, in an astonishing statement, a High Court Judge rebuked Northern Ireland Secretary

PETER HAIN

-for 'lack of candour to the Court' with reference to a sensitive case involving a controversial political appointment to appease the

DEMOCRATIC UNIONISTS.

This was a very grave allegation, and particularly shocking directed at a Cabinet Minister.

In a Government of Principle, this would have been a

 RESIGNATION MATTER

OVER THE SUMMER, the Deputy Prime Minister ,John Prescott, was caught out making misleading statements about his connection with the U.S. gambling tycoon Philip Anschutz, while the former Home Secretary David Blunkett, was exposed as a serial liar on a scale that might impress even Mohamed Al Fayed.

BUT NOTHING comes close to the events of last Thursday. These will , I believe, come to define the FINAL ghastly months of the

BLAIR ADMINISTRATION

-in the same way that Black Wednesday defined

JOHN MAJOR.

IT WAS THE DAY that contained a series of momentous events: the bombshell (and very welcome) decision to drop the Serious Fraud Office investigation into whether BAe Systems paid £60,000.000 in 'backhanders' to win a lucrative weapons deal with Saudi Arabia;publication of Lord Stevens' report into the death of Princess Diana; and the POLICE interview with Tony Blair as part of the 'cash for peerages' inquiry -

THE FIRST TIME a serving PRIME MINISTER has been INTERVIEWED as part of a POLICE INVESTIGATION.

ANYONE FAMILIAR with the workings of Tony Blair's Downing Street and its careful manipulation of the political agenda by use of a

DIARY GRID SYSTEM.

-and its careful manipulation of the

POLITICAL AGENDA

-which enables future news events to be charted and orchestrated, will SPOT a familiar PATTERN HERE.

The PRIME MINISTER'S aides chose the date of the INTERVIEW

-intriguingly-police sources have stressed that the timing was left up to Downing Street - because they knew that it coincided with the Diana REPORT and the NEWS would be partly 'BURIED'.

Downing Street officials however maintained that it was purely a coincidence that the two events took place on the same day. The trouble is the No10 has MISLED the PUBLIC so OFTEN that it NO LONGER has the RIGHT to be BELIEVED.

SCEPTICISM is all the GREATER because No10 also LIED, several times during the course of THURSDAY.

THE FIRST FALSEHOOD was uttered early in the morning, when Joe Murphy the political editor of the

LONDON EVENING STANDARD

-rang Dave Hill , the Downing Street director of communications, to check the rumour that the police were set to

INTERVIEW TONY BLAIR THAT DAY

Hill replied: 'Look, nothing is happening. I think that's pretty unequivocal.'

At 11am, at a meeting of the Parliamentary Press lobby, the Prime Minister's official spokesman , TOM KELLY was asked whether the POLICE had been in touch.

He replied: 'NOTHING NEW to REPORT.' BUT at the very moment he was speaking the POLICE were INSIDE Downing Street quizzing the PRIME MINISTER.

This astonishing and successful attempt to mislead journalists follows a long line of examples of the GOVERNMENT systematically lying to the Press and PUBLIC about the cash -for-peerages crisis.

I KNOW OF CASES where reporters have phoned No10 to ask whether certain officials had been interviewed by the police.

THEY WERE TOLD 'NO'

ANOTHER gross Act of Deception came in the form of a PRESS RELEASE put out by the Labour Party on November 28 - the day that the Electoral Commission, an INDEPENDENT WATCHDOG, published a document on PARTY financies.

YESTERDAY [December 15-2006] I asked Downing Street's DAVE HILL to explain his conversation with the political editor of the

EVENING STANDARD

-early on Thursday morning.

'I knew nothing. I did not know anything. I did not know that the POLICE were expected AT THE TIME,

He said.

I told him that I was prepared to accept his comments

(although only with some reluctance, for since he is one of three or four senior figures at No 10, and being Director of Communications  he would be EXPECTED to be CONSULTED about the timing of a major event like the

ARRIVAL of the POLICE.)

BUT HIS ANSWER RAISED A FURTHER QUESTION.

If he was indeed, in this blissful state of ignorance, why didn't he just say he hadn't a clue what was going on?

Hill seemed incapable of answering this QUESTION

[SILENCE to WRONG DOING is in itself a GREAT WRONG as the individual has the FREEDOM to make their CHOICE and if they believe that by deliberately taking part in a CONSPIRACY by SILENCE makes them as GUILTY as the WRONGDOERS.]

THE horrible truth is that Thursday's episode is simply the latest in a line of EVASIONS

LIES

FALSEHOODS

SMEERS

-to issue from

DAVE HILL

and his colleague

TOM KELLY

-the man who was so callously denounced

Dr David Kelly

-as a Walter Mitty character.

YET I have known Hill for 15 years and know him well enough to be sure he is a fundamentally decent man. He went into Downing Street

THREE YEARS AGO WITH A HIGH REPUTATION

-BUT THAT IS VANISHING FAST

Before ending our phone conversation, I told him that he would be FOOLISH to DESTROY his own INTEGRITY on behalf of

TONY BLAIR

-a man  who-

whatever the result of the current POLICE INVESTIGATION mis now certain to go into history as one of the

MOST

DISREPUTABLE

DUPLICITOUS

AND

DISHONEST

PRIME MINISTERS

IN

BRITISH HISTORY.

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DECEMBER/06

We shall let the words from the past give no doubt the feelings of many people of the importance of INTEGRITYin Governemnt and in all walks of life.

INTEGRITY

'Nothing is more sacred  but the INTEGRITY of your own MIND. Absolve you to yourself , and you shall have the suffrage of the WORLD.

Ralph  Waldo (1803-82) Emerson -American poet

'Give us the man of INTEGRITY, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend; who will stand firm when others fail; the friend, faithful and true; the ADVISER, HONEST and FEARLESS; the adversary, just and chivalous; such as ONE is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.'

A.P.Stanley(1815-81) Dean of Westminster.

'A man of INTEGRITY will never listen to any plea against CONSCIENCE.'

Henry Home(1696-1782) Scottish judge.

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