former labor party member now
independent or he's running his own
party called respect George Galloway
joins us now often a vocal critic of the
government George uh happy day for you
sad day for the country what do you
think you you've been an Ardent critic
of uh Blair's involvement in the war in
Iraq well the reason that he's going is
the Iraq it's carved on his political
Tombstone as his name is carved on the
names of hundreds of thousands of
people's tombstones whose lives he shed
as a result of the bizarre special
relationship that he had with George W
bush no one since Monica Linsky has had
as close a relationship to an American
president as Tony Blair has and I'm
afraid that's what's done for him he uh
was seen by the vast majority of people
in this country to have lied us into a
war with catastrophic results if the if
the war had gone well people would have
forgiven the lies but it's gone
catastrophically
badly watches CNN can can tell what what
then is his legacy I mean there've been
some good things as well the econom is
in pretty good shape uh Northern Ireland
we just watched that very historic event
this
week sure uh even Hitler built motorways
you know uh it would be hard with 10
years in power presiding over the fifth
biggest economy in the world and with
three Landslide parliamentary majorities
to have achieved absolutely nothing in
fact he's achieved more than that uh
Ireland uh the Scottish and Welsh
parliaments the principle of a minimum
wage though Long established in the
United States even though it's in
Britain at a poverty level these are all
feathers in his cap but I'm afraid
they're they're drowned in the blood of
the hundreds of thousands of people who
have been killed in the war in Iraq uh
some of them are own soldiers far more
of them the soldiers of the United
States uh armed forces and of course
we're now so deep into this swamp it's
difficult to know as Shakespeare put it
whether it's bloodier to go on or to go
over well you have a you have a lot of
support uh Grassroots support among your
own constituency but it's unlikely the
respect part is going to win power next
time it's going to be the Tories or it's
going to be Gordon Brown how do you look
look at the
future well you know I'm the popularizer
of the phrase that Blair and brown are
two cheeks of the same backside and whil
I'm temperament Mally inclined towards
the left cheek uh in fact uh they'll be
pretty well identical and that means
labor will be going down to defeat at
the next election and that's uh in a
sense Mr Blair's final Legacy to his own
party he haved its numbers he's reduced
its share of the pole to lower than it
was during the Faulkland War when Mrs
Thatcher in her pump and he's let the
Tories back in almost certainly and Mr
Brown will get the Prime Minister ship
only in time to lose it I'm afraid