Labour Parliamentary Candidate Slams 'War Criminal' Tony Blair

Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Donald Worsley has called for Tony Blair to be 'prosecuted as a war criminal' after Mr Blair appeared at the Chilcot inquiry into the decision to go to war in Iraq.

In a press release sent to all the main press outlets in the region, Mr Worsley says 'Tony Blair's evidence to the Chilcot Enquiry has confirmed my worst fears.


'He took the country to war with Iraq to satisfy his own ego regardless of the cost to the country of the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of British troops.

'Blair has disgraced the Labour Party and should now be prosecuted as a War Criminal before the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

Mr Worsley ends with praise for current party leader Gordon Brown, saying 'Gordon Brown's actions in forcing Blair's resignation as a Labour Prime minister has saved the Party from policitical oblivion and eternal odium.'

It will be interesting to see how the local press react to this release. With only a small presence on the local political scene Labour have long been in the wilderness, something Mr Worsley is keen to reverse. Not afraid to go against the party line, Mr Worsley has also spoken against the Labour government over the Dungeness C decision and the failure to hold a referendum on a new European Union treaty.