Tony Blair's Foreign Policy and Cool Britannia Criticized

Um, I'll, I'll be honest, I've been very distressed by Mr. Blair's behavior for, for several years in terms of the way I think he's removed the idealism from politics by taking a left, a, a supposedly left of center party and calling it Labour or New Labour and then basically saying there i- we, we have to be pragmatic.

The left is really, in these overly consumerist times, the left is actually- He also said you had to have an ethical foreign policy, didn't he?

Absolutely. And to, and, and absolutely, this is not ethical, is it?

We're at, this is a Christian country with supposedly a Christian leader who somehow think that the answer to the future is preemptive action.

Now, to me, preemptive action is every bit as dangerous a concept as the initial concept of creating the atomic bomb.

I- You'd still vote for him? No, I wouldn't vote for him.

I would never vote for him again. Never vote for him again.

You were so much aligned with Blair and Cool Britannia- Mm-hmm ... weren't you?

At, at- No, no, no, I wasn't. No, I wasn't.

I never turned up at that bloody party. Excuse me.

I was never gonna be used that way. When I saw Tony Blair, I saw him in Islington before he got into Downing Street, right? When he needed people like me, I saw him personally.

I went and had a meal with him, discussed it because my lawyer is a member of the Labour Party.

But you supported it, didn't you? When? Then. The Cool- Supported what?

The Cool Britannia movement. I've never, I've never believed in Cool Brit- Britannia No?

No, it's not r- you're not talking to Noel Gallagher or, or somebody from the Britpop age.

You're talking to someone who started 21 years ago.

Cool Britannia is a load of bollocks to me