Families Of Soldiers Killed In Iraq Launch Party To Challenge Ministers (UK)

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 8-5-2006 | Steve Boggan

[blam]

Families of soldiers killed in Iraq launch party to challenge ministers

· More than 70 candidates to contest Labour seats
· Bereaved to meet within two weeks to plan strategy

Steve Boggan
Saturday August 5, 2006
The Guardian (UK)

Whenever news of British military deaths in the Middle East flashes on to their TV screen, Reg and Sally Keys become silent and you can see anxiety wash across their faces. This week has been particularly tough; three soldiers killed in Afghanistan, one in Iraq. Each time it happens, it reminds them of their son, Thomas, one of six royal military policemen killed in Iraq in 2003.

The Keys are among 115 families whose sons have been killed in Iraq. But this week, one of the worst for British casualties, has been different for the bereaved; this week, they have been doing something about it.

Mr Keys, a 54-year-old former paramedic who stood against Tony Blair in Sedgefield at the general election, is at the centre of moves to form a new political movement aimed at bringing down ministers who failed to vote against the war in Iraq. In the next two weeks he and a small group of others will meet to lay down the foundations of Spectre, a political party that will target the people they hold culpable for the deaths of their sons in what they see as an illegal war. Last week, four of them won an appeal court challenge against the government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein. Their lawyer, Phil Shiner, described the victory as stunning, not least because, if they are successful in November, the inquiry could see the prime minister, former foreign secretary Jack Straw and former defence secretary Geoff Hoon called...

[Jameison]

Spectre?

Dang!
And here I was thinking Ernst Stavro Blofeld died in that James Bond movie.
All this time, the guy was still alive and causing mischief in Britain.

[liberty or death]

Over 60 years ago millions had to die because no one recognized evil. Europe will soon be aflame because they forgot again, "History always repeats itself". Why? Because Mankind ignores History.

[muawiyah]

Well, anyway, Mankind might or might not, but in UK there's this crowd who always want to give up early in the face of real evil.

[pissant]

Great, they have their very own Sheehan/Jersey Girls. My condolences to England.