Where Is Brutus?

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Why will nobody play Brutus to Blair’s Caeser?

Tony Blair is cutting an increasingly isolated figure even within his own cabinet - we are told. His shameless support for Israel’s slaughter has shaken even New Labour diehards - we are told. Ministers are deeply embarrassed by the prime minister’s deranged remarks about a Muslim “arc of extremism” - we are told.

What we are not told is why he still clings to office. Why are these senior Labour politicians so keen to brief journalists of their profound concerns, yet so reluctant to speak out publicly, or follow through the logic of their position and wield the knife?

Not one of these conspirators has the guts to play Brutus to Blair’s Caesar.

This pathetic display underlines the corruption of the entire leadership of the Labour Party. They stood by Blair’s imperial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - and now they find themselves paralysed by the stench of blood on their hands, powerless to hold the prime minister back over Lebanon.

If the Labour Party cannot act to end the premiership of this paranoid murderous wretch, then the responsibility falls on the people that party once claimed to represent. The anti-war movement, so visible and vibrant last Saturday, must surge forwards in their thousands to Manchester next month. Only we have the power to cast Blair down.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9447