The Day Politics Stopped Working
From The Guardian:
It’s been exactly five years since at least a million people took to the streets of London in protest at Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq. Britain had never seen a public outcry like it. So why haven’t we seen one since?
First of all, the march, despite winning huge public support, didn’t prevent the mass killing of Iraqis. It also didn’t lead to people rising up against the Labour government, indeed most decided it wasn’t worth voting for anyone, because the perception was if another party was elected to govern the country, they would’ve done exactly the same thing. That’s why Britain is in the state it’s in today.
Last word on the march: Andrew Murray of the Stop The War Coalition argues here that despite the people failing to stop the war in Iraq, the horrific aftermath meant many others could have been prevented. I first agreed with this, but now though I’m not so sure….
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