People are now raising the question of Blair and his religion. I raised this matter as early as July 2001 in Bulletin No.2 of the GEORGE BARNSBY Working Class Library comparing the achievements of Blair with those of Qliver Cromwell. Cromwell was called `our chief of men' by John Milton our greatest poet because he presided over a key stage of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century and also ensured English independence. I suggested that Blair was the first man since to obtain the same amount of power as Cromwell by destroying, perhaps terminally, the power of the Tory Party and creating a power base stretching from the left through the centre to the moderate right. Blair had won hirnseL£tlw.po_wer to transform Britain, and whereas Cromwell had to do it by force, Blair could follow a Peaceful Road to Socialism.
The Third Way, however, turned out not to be a alternative between Capitalism and Socialism, but old fashioned social democratic imperialism. Blair had fluffed his chance and with it emerged more sinister similarities between the two men. Both were religious zealots. When decisions became difficult to call, Cromwell retired to commune with God and if he was convinced that he was doing the Lord's work there was no atrocity he was incapable of committing.
Blair is a man in the same mould. He will listen to no mortal man (or woman) and he has now committed his first atrocity in he name of his God. He has illegally attacked Iraq. As has now been suggested by other people, such a bigot disqualifies himself from ruling a country like Britain whose policies are based on the rule of law. He should resign before he is sacked.