this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
31 points (100.0% liked)

United Kingdom

5104 readers
188 users here now

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They should be tried for supporting war crimes and genocide

[–] G4Z@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

Fucking Blair.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Here’s another cunt that should choke to death immediately.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t this just another one to the pile of his war crimes? It’s remarkable how Boris Johnson somehow managed to be even shittier than the war criminal Blair.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Technically. And honestly in this mess that is all we can use.

It would only be considered a crime after it happened. If blairs organisation helped in the implementation.

Planning is basically writing a well researched book. Of course that is a stretched comparison. But accurate as for as equivalents is concerned. Only real difference is the book would be public. Planning is kept top secret. But that in no way makes writing it a crime alone.

If you wrote a story based on some meglamainiac American president committing actions seen as war crimes. No matter how accurate the set up or understanding of military preparedness in the real world. Or how involved in talking to that president or staff.

If that meglmaiiac copied your book. You would only be seen as a criminal if you aided in the implementation of your books plot.

Of course your arsehole status is not a legal matter in this case. Or for any politician. Where I assume it's assumed?

Currently the plannings plot has not happened (yet). And we have no idea how involved in implementation blairs group would be. But forming the plan is not a crime in itself.

Or at least not a war crime. In some selected cases. Such a book could be seen as inciting violence. But the lack of publicity would make a plan hard to argue that.