Monbiot: the big coward

Desmond Tutu’s ignorant, rude and wrong posturing, about which I wrote at the weekend, has set off another wave of the Blair rage.

I have previously mocked George Monbiot’s campaign to “arrest” Tony Blair for not agreeing with the anti-war people. Monbiot (pictured) said two years ago:

You can mock our feeble attempts to hold Tony Blair to account, but only if you propose an alternative.

Which I thought was fine. I suggested that he could choose any one of the following as an alternative:

Foreign Affairs select committee inquiry, 2003.
Intelligence and Security Committee inquiry, 2003.
Hutton inquiry, 2004.
Butler inquiry, 2004.
General election, 2005.

The thing about Monbiot, though, writing in The Guardian to welcome Tutu’s Great Leap Forward in International Law, is that he is just not batty enough. As a friend of mine wrote on a previous occasion:

Thus once more Moonbat’s essential weakness is revealed: he gives every impression of being a fully-fledged lunatic, but when the whiff of real loopiness is in the air he turns tail and runs towards sanity like the big coward that he is. His fatal flaw: an ineradicable streak of reason. Sad to see.

This time, Monbiot admits, towards the end of hailing Tutu’s statement as a breakthrough for his campaign to make a nuisance of himself: “The prospect of prosecution currently looks remote.”

I’d say.

Next, I shall turn to an even more reasonable exponent of the Monbiot world view, Kevin Marsh.

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• stonedwolf

  For the record, Tutu’s racism was simply stating the role South African Jews played in supporting apartheid, and noting how Israeli is a similarly racist, apartheid state.

  He has also criticised white apartheid-supporting Afrikaners and the British government, but not for a moment do I as a white Briton think he was being racist against me.

  The ADL considers criticism of Israel to be racism against the Jews.

  So does this “Blair Supporter”, it seems.

• http://www.facebook.com/duncan.mcfarlane3 Duncan McFarlane

  Foreign Affairs select committee inquiry, 2003 – a committee with a majority of Labour and Conservative MPs, with the majority of Labour MPs and all but a dozen Conservatives having voted for the invasion – i.e utterly biased , as any finding that the war was wrong or based on lies would lose their party votes and maybe them their seats

  Intelligence and Security Committee inquiry, 2003 – ditto

  Hutton inquiry, 2004 – An Inquiry established by the person under investigation, who appointed the judge and decided what questions he could ask and what questions he couldn’t. And it’s meant to be significant it found him innocent on all charges? What a joke! If every trial was done the same way no-one would ever be convicted of anything.

  Butler inquiry – ditto (and the Chilcot Inquiry is made up of a panel who include peers appointed by Blair and historians who were cheerleaders for the Iraq war from the start)

  General election, 2005 – Neither an independent inquiry nor a trial, but an election, in which the Iraq war was not the main issue. No war or foreign policy issue has ever been the main issue in any British election. So this is completely irrelevant. Many people who opposed the war voted Labour anyway to keep the Conservatives out or because they supported Labour on domestic policies that directly affected them.

  Blair was still worried enough that he promised to stand down after the election in the hope that would encourage more :Labour voters to turn out in the hope of getting Brown as Prime minister instead of Blair, though

• http://www.facebook.com/duncan.mcfarlane3 Duncan McFarlane

  also if you want to make a serious argument, it would help if you didn’t label people you disagree with “the big coward” and “lunatic”. It seems most of the irrational rage is coming from you and Blair’s other diehard fans.

• porkfright

  Exactly-It would be interesting to be able to extrapolate the cost and total number of litres of whitewash used.

• http://twitter.com/citizen_sane Citizen Sane

  Then why do you read him?

• Pacificweather

  Oh, come on! We love to hate him and Tony both.

• Pacificweather

  Do you kiss is picture before you go to sleep?

• http://twitter.com/citizen_sane Citizen Sane

  Normblog right, as ever. Monbiot is a buffoon.

• Pacificweather

  In the 2005 general election Mr Blair’s party only got 36% of the vote. If you think that is an endorsement then you’re as cracked as he is. Come to think of it, the other examples you gave demonstrate you are cracked. Each one of them demonstrated his guilt to all but you.

  But that is not true is it? It is why you never mention him in any other context. Your hero let you down which is why you cannot bring yourself to write about the good things he did before his mental illness destroyed his reputation for ever. You can only try to defend the indefensible. Although 70% of the country was against the war, two thirds of MP suffered from the same delusion. Why not write about what happens to people in that place that they lose the ability to use their brains and their will to act democratically.

• Tatty_D

  You aren’t far off. On FB he has Tone’s photo as his cover, & him looking on with utter devotion. Seems clinical to my untrained eye.