Has-been, second-rate Celebrity anti-war campaigners who belong on the other side will join MPs in Westminster to call for Prime Minister Tony Blair's impeachment. Some 23 MPs have signed a Commons motion calling for the Prime Minister to be thrown out of office for "gross misconduct". Author Iain Banks, playwright Harold Pinter and musician Brian Eno are due to join them for a photocall in Parliament.
| Ahah! The Brit equivalents to Barbra Streisand. That'll work well. Can we loan them Michael Moore? How about Whoopi Goldberg? |
It is the first attempt in 198 years to impeach a British Prime Minister. The addled group says Blair misled Parliament and the country over the case for war, destroying "the fundamental principle of parliamentary democracy".
| That was the vote that got a majority in the Parliament, right? |
It is demanding a select committee of MPs be set up to examine the PM's conduct in relation to the war and decide whether there are grounds to impeach him on charges of gross misconduct.
| I thought this was settled, why do they need a committee? |
Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price, who started the campaign, also wants a Commons debate on the Prime Minister's conduct. "We must make a stand or watch the democracy we have fought so often for against foreign enemies be subverted from within," he said.
| But enough about George Galloway! |
"The rules of constitutional conduct have been brushed aside. The Cabinet table has been replaced with the sofa, Cabinet minutes with email and the facts replaced with belief. People say politicians do nothing and are all alike. Today we make a stand for parliamentary democracy. We ask our colleagues and the people to help us restore the accountability of the Government to Parliament."
| They could start by tossing these guys. |
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