Corbyn Coup to Protect Blair?

Alex Salmond [former Scottish First Minister] has appeared to suggest the internal Labour party coup against Jeremy Corbyn is connected with the publication of the long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war.

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“I had a conversation on exactly this point with veteran Labour firebrand Dennis Skinner. He answered in one word ‘Iraq’. The Skinner line is that the coup was timed to avoid Corbyn calling for Blair’s head next Wednesday from the despatch box. Indeed many would say that when Corbyn stated that he would be prepared to see a former Labour Prime Minister tried for war crimes then he sealed his fate as leader of the Labour party.”

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“[Blair] seemed puzzled as to why Jeremy Corbyn thinks he is a war criminal, why people don't like him,” he added. “The reason is 179 British war dead, 150,000 immediate dead from the Iraq conflict, the Middle East in flames, the world faced with an existential crisis on terrorism - these are just some of the reasons perhaps he should understand why people don't hold him in the highest regard.”

“We are waiting to see Chilcot producing the evidence, which we believe is there, which will allow action to be taken.”

“One way or another there are many MPs, and this is not a party political thing, this is across the political parties, who are absolutely determined that account has to be held to,” he continued.

“[They believe] that you cannot have a situation where this country blunders into an illegal war with the appalling consequences and at the end of the day there isn't a reckoning. There has to be a judicial or political reckoning for that.”

  UK Independent

I, for one, will be well and truly surprised if there is any reckoning at all.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.