For someone who was taken in by a lot of what Tony Blair said while he was prime minister this is a sobering film. Clearly, any documentary hosted and produced by George Galloway is going to be biased, but the use of a range of right wing politicians, journalists, business and establishment figures as talking heads is a smart move that helps give balance and credibility to the story. The odious Ken Livingstone is only used once.
The credible case against Tony Blair is that the premise for the Iraq war was not there (as if we did not already know that), that he was deeply compromised with the deals struck with Rupert Murdoch, and that his post-political career as a business fixer and adviser to despots has stretched the bounds of avarice and conflicts of interest.
Ultimately, this is an important film whose strengths and weaknesses are both to do with George Galloway. Galloway has the mischievousness and ambition to make the film happen, but his own creepy relationship with Saddam Hussein and his sons, who attempted genocide of the Kurds in Iraq, makes him an unpalatable prosecutor of Tony Blair.
The credible case against Tony Blair is that the premise for the Iraq war was not there (as if we did not already know that), that he was deeply compromised with the deals struck with Rupert Murdoch, and that his post-political career as a business fixer and adviser to despots has stretched the bounds of avarice and conflicts of interest.
Ultimately, this is an important film whose strengths and weaknesses are both to do with George Galloway. Galloway has the mischievousness and ambition to make the film happen, but his own creepy relationship with Saddam Hussein and his sons, who attempted genocide of the Kurds in Iraq, makes him an unpalatable prosecutor of Tony Blair.