A GROUP of Scottish activists are asking Police Scotland to have Tony Blair and Jack Straw arrested for war crimes, writes Andrew Learmonth.
Last week perennial campaigners the Scottish Resistance asked the PC behind the desk in Barrhead station to have Blair put behind bars.
The group, who previously led a protest outside the Tunnock’s factory after rumours that the biscuit manufacturer was making the branding a little less Scottish, believe the then-government were in breach of the Kellogg-Briand pact, a 1928 agreement where signatories promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflict”.
Speaking outside the station, James Scott from the Resistance said they were doing their utmost to see Blair in the Hague.
“See if some superior species was to come from another planet they would reckon that Tony Blair is just as bad as Hitler. Basically, he is a mass murderer” he said.
Fellow resistance member, Sean Clerkin said: “We’re reporting a war crime, we expect the police to investigate this, and we expect them take action in relation to Tony Blair and Jack Straw.”
Scott and Clerkin spoke to police for 15 minutes and were given a crime incident number.
They have urged others to go to their local police office and ask for Blair and Straw to be arrested for being in breach of the Kellogg-Briand pact.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed by Germany, France and the United States, with the United Kingdom joining a year later. It has had notably little effect in ending war.
A group of MPs are trying to have Blair found in contempt of parliament for lying to the House of Commons five times.
Tory MP David Davis who is involved in the process to be debates tomorrow, said they tried to impeach Blair but found that it was impossible.
“It’s out of date, our impeachment procedure,” Davis said.
“Instead I’m going to put down a motion of contempt. Saying Mr Blair had held the House in contempt. It’s a bit like contempt of court.”
He the BBC’s Andrew Marr: “They did it with Profumo, and this is much more serious than that.”
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War parliament voted on a motion saying Tory War Secretary John Profumo had held Parliament in Contempt.
Profumo had lied about an affair he had with model and showgirl Christine Keeler, who was also connected to a russian intelligence officer.
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