London Bombings and Galloway

This is an unpublished letter to The Guardian on the parliamentary reaction to the London bombings of 7th July.

Dear Editor,

Once again the British Parliament has failed the electorate. In the runup to the invasion of Iraq it was quite clear that Blair did not have majority support in the country for his policy. However, with the exception of some individual Labour MPs and the Liberal Democrats, MPs failed to represent the majority opinion. Now, after the appalling London bombings, Parliament has failed us again. Millions of people in this country know full well that British support for George W.Bush's neo-conservative project - especially over Iraq - has got us into this situation. What does Parliament do? If fawns on the man who is responsible for this atrocious situation. Blair the war criminal goes unchallenged yet again. Yet again our MPs prove themselves to be nothing but a bunch of lickspittles.

And what of the only MP who has the integrity and the courage to say what millions of us know to be true? The desperation of the Blairites to cover up Iraq as the cause of us being the target of terrorists is the personal abuse they resort to against George Galloway. I notice that David Winnick hid behind parliamentary privilege to slander Galloway as "making excuses for mass murderers". Anyone who saw Galloway interviewed on Newsnight knows that is totally untrue. Instead of holding Blair to account for his crimes spineless Blairites are still trying to cover up for him.

Our so-called parliamentary democracy is a complete joke. A very sick one at that. Only one man counts, and he isn't even British - George W.Bush.

Yours fairhfully,

Grouchy.