COMRADES, I’m sure you will be as pleased as I am that the evil and psychotic Tony Blair is finally going to be condemned in the much-fabled Chilcot Inquiry. After years of asking “how long?”, we are finally approaching a time in which we can ask “how soon?”. Astonishingly, we’ve been waiting a 13 years for the Chilcot Report. That’s almost as long as we waited for the last Guns ‘n’ Roses album. In addition, three Star Trek movies have been written, produced and released in this time. On occasion I’ve wondered if we’d sooner see the report published as an inconclusive three-part movie trilogy than a coherent and incriminating document!

Reasons for the delay have been numerous, but any talk of an “establishment plot” against the inquiry just makes me think that Blair is even guiltier than we already suspect. For those of you too young to remember, Tony Blair is the former British Prime Minister responsible for taking Britain into an illegal war with, and occupation of, Iraq in 2003. Others may also remember Blair as the man who pioneered the Labour Party’s transition from the political left to the political right under the “New Labour” movement. Indeed, there are many blotches on Blair’s record, which by now must look like a series of terrifying Rorschach tests. His political legacy is the financial ruin of Britain, the deaths of thousands of innocent people, pathological lying, media manipulation and essentially everything that is wrong with the ruling class and political affairs.

At the time, Tony’s 1997 election victory was viewed as monumental for the Labour Party, but now it acts only as a cautionary tale, warning us of the dangers of mass marketing and the cult of personality that can surround a man such as Blair. To this day many are still in denial about 1997, with many contemporary politicians continuing to identify themselves as “Blairites”. Personally, I think openly admiring Tony is something you should be able to be treated for medically. It’s certainly mystifying, given his legacy of warfare and deceit, that anyone could reflect on Blair’s time in power with any degree of warmth. Yet many within the Labour Party still view this as their “most successful era”, which only makes sense if you measure success in terms of war crimes and crooked economics.

In the years since the Iraq War, Blair has walked the earth as an unrepentant and arrogant character, seemingly content to live in a bubble of self-sufficient delusion. This is a man who once wrote an article entitled “In defence of Blairism, by Tony Blair”, which is as close as you can possibly get to penning a column called “Why I’m actually awesome, by me”. Indeed, aside from an ironic stint as Middle East peace envoy, his present career is essentially defending himself and trying to justify all the terrible things he’s done. Worse yet, he has somehow managed to turn this self-preservation lifestyle into a cash cow by charging ungodly sums of money to anyone willing to give him a microphone. Some of his speaking engagements have been quoted as making in the region of £200,000 for a single talk.

All of this seems utterly repugnant when you consider Blair was himself an ardent proponent of detention without trial – by his own logic a man as guilty as Blair should surely be behind bars already.

Tony Blair seems to believe that none of his decisions were wrong or morally questionable simply because he was the one who made them. In my estimation, history will struggle to make sense of his leadership and its aftermath. Not only is he still walking free, making a career out of simply being his guilty self, but he has continually called for more wars in the wake of the ones he’s already caused. Even if Blair was the last human being left on the planet, I’m certain he’d find a way to start a conflict. I’ll concede that the question of how we deal with the contemporary threat of Daesh is a complicated one, and to completely rule out military intervention would be foolish. However, you’d think Tony Blair would have the common courtesy to not make statements about war until after the Chilcot Report is published. That said, if Tony Blair truly believes a ground war with Daesh is the answer, I hope he volunteers to be on the frontline of it. I say we give him a cap gun, some Action Man boots and send him on his way.

Blair’s legacy is arguably the darkest chapter in modern British history. Most worryingly of all, it looks like a chapter our present government has learned absolutely nothing from. I feel bad knowing that the kids who were in push prams when Blair was bombing Iraq are now the young adults telling Cameron not to bomb Syria. After all, history has taught us that if Tony Blair thinks it’s a good idea, it’s probably not a good idea. To literally put your own ego before the lives of others is not a trait that should be valued, and Blair’s habit of blaming faulty intelligence over his lack of intelligence is not one that should be emulated. The publication of the Chilcot Report may finally bring an end to Tony preaching about what’s best for the Middle East and working Britain from his luxury yachts. Senior sources have suggested that it will deliver an “absolutely brutal” verdict on Blair’s campaign of brutality in Iraq. Regardless, the final verdict is going to generate a visceral response from the public. I can image it will either result in street parties or street riots. The concept of Blair walking away unscathed from this is beyond comprehension and will result in considerable discontent if it happens.

But the potential scenes of blissful celebration in George Square on the date of Blair’s sentencing could be amongst the fondest memories we could ever hope to have. At any rate, let’s all put the date of July 6 into our calendars!