Chilcot outcome predictions.

octatonic

This is the thread where you predict what will happen post-Chilcot publication.

Will we see Tony in the Haig?

monquixote

A few people will get slapped wrists.

People who consider Blair a war criminal will declare it a whitewash.

Heartfeltdawn

I'd rather see him in the Hague as punishment. 

Once publication is done, I will visit the gym and run 7.5km. I will then return and have a cheese sandwich. 

fretmeister

octatonic said:

This is the thread where you predict what will happen post-Chilcot publication.

Will we see Tony in the Haig?

No.

The decision to go to war is outside of the remit of the ICC.

mgaw

Chilcott will cash the cheque and toddle off to get his gong and pension

mellowsun

Blair will be exonerated and everyone will get a knighthood.

chillidoggy

The families will sue and get a huge payout.

Blair will get away with it as usual, and continue to coin it.

hungrymark

Some people will think it's a whitewash, other people will read the exact same report and conclude that it's a witchhunt, and the polarisation of politics lives on another day.

p90fool

Seven years' worth of inconclusive drivel will spark an inquiry into the inquiry.

If he was a bit too busy he should have said earlier.

Snap

monquixote said:

A few people will get slapped wrists.

People who consider Blair a war criminal will declare it a whitewash.

I think that will be the outcome.

boogieman

Blair will be roundly condemned.

He'll claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available at the time.

He'll get away with it.

lloyd

boogieman said:

Blair will be roundly condemned.

He'll claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available at the time. 

He'll get away with it.

Pretty much this, there will be bullshit apologies too-ones not meant and with a "but...." hanging over them.

UnclePsychosis

I predict that by lunchtime today the entire Internet will have read all 2.5m words of it and suddenly be experts in complex international law.

Politicians with an axe to grind will have read and understood it all by 11am, because they're, like, really smart.

JezWynd

Blair will walk the Mall dressed only in a white shift and a crown of thorns, flagellating himself with a birch.

boogieman

lloyd;1140243" said:

boogieman said:

Blair will be roundly condemned.



He'll claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available at the time. 



He'll get away with it.





Pretty much this, there will be bullshit apologies too-ones not meant and with a "but...." hanging over them.

He's already apologised for the deaths of servicemen but not for the actions he took. Lord Falconer was already making soothing noises on the news this morning, saying that governments have to make difficult choices sometimes. Him saying that proves the establishment already know Blair is going to be roundly slammed for Iraq IMO.

Heartfeltdawn

UnclePsychosis said:

I predict that by lunchtime today the entire Internet will have read all 2.5m words of it and suddenly be experts in complex international law.

Politicians with an axe to grind will have read and understood it all by 11am, because they're, like, really smart.

And one side will demand the inquiry must be done again because the right side didn't win and the other side didn't really understand what it was all about... 

Heartfeltdawn

boogieman said:

He's already apologised for the deaths of servicemen but not for the actions he took. Lord Falconer was already making soothing noises on the news this morning, saying that governments have to make difficult choices sometimes. Him saying that proves the establishment already know Blair is going to be roundly slammed for Iraq IMO.

It was Corbyn's comments in May which suggested to me that Blair was going to get a kicking. Corbyn is more famous as leader for saying sod all so going out like this represented quite a step away from the norm. Let's hope it comes to pass. 

Ro_S

Nothing will be done about Blair.

Don't send Blair to the Hague; he'll end up getting a nice EU gravy train job.

Ro_S

It's been suggested that Corbyn is staying on as Labour leader long enough for the release of the Chilcot Report and to be able to state in the Commons that Blair should get prosecuted re: Iraq. 

Btw, the report will be bloody long that it will take another year to take it all in.

scrumhalf

Sir Humphrey Appleby:

"You don't have an enquiry to make things clear. You have an enquiry to put you in the clear."

chillidoggy

JezWynd said:

Blair will walk the Mall dressed only in a white shift and a crown of thorns, flagellating himself with a birch, after selling tickets at £100 a pop for the event.

FTFY.