We Are The Hostages

The Britons being held in Iran are not "hostages". They were picked up in Iranian waters, where they shouldn't have been, unless anyone can think of any other reasonable explanation as to how the Iranians ever got them, or for that matter why they would ever even have wanted to.

Not that this is their fault personally. It is practically certain (again, unless anyone can think of any other remotely credible explanation) that these teenagers, in some cases, were sent there by Blair in order to provoke a war with Iran, for the reasons that I set out on Saturday, both in terms of why such a war is wanted, and in terms of why something like this has now been deemed necessary in order to bring about such a war.

They'd be sent back tomorrow if we got rid of Blair and installed someone with an independent, pro-British foreign policy, which by definition would not include any threat to Iran, itself certainly no threat to us. And wouldn't you want that, too?

Alas, no such person is available, least of all in either of the forms of Gordon Brown and David Cameron, the latter surrounded by head-banging neocons like Michael Gove, so that Britain, alone in Europe if not the world, has a main right-wing party dedicated, not to the country in question's national interest, but to someone else's. Does that sound like a conservative position to you?

New Labour is, of course, cut from the same cloth. That's why we're in Iraq. That's why we, and not the Americans, have sent in our servicemen and woman to provoke Iran into a war for American companies to steal its oil, just like in Iraq. And that, among so many other reasons, is why we, the British People, need to build entirely new political parties of our own.

Until then, it is we who will continue to be held hostage.