Dear Prime Minister Blair,

Earlier this year the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, called the existence of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay “unacceptable” and a “symbol of injustice” leading most observers to conclude that he had serious concerns about the legality of the camp. Previously, in March of this year you also called for the closure of the camp but avoided commenting on the allegations of torture apart from casting dispersions on such allegations by saying that the “Americans dispute many of these claims…”.

What is not in dispute by those who are even marginally sceptical of US claims is that as of this month, as many of 75% of the prisoners at Guantanamo have never seen a lawyer and that the vast majority of prisoners held have never been involved in terrorism or posed a threat to anyone. Further, the horrendous forms of prolonged mental torture used routinely in US prisons are publicly acknowledged and obvious. I have written to you before regarding the disgraceful infringements of other basic human rights and the fundamental legal protections these inmates are being denied and shall not list these in detail again here.

That you are unable to overtly criticise such appalling affronts to the most basic systems of justice is a damning indictment of your failing judgement and lack of moral backbone. That you have tried privately to influence the US government to close the prison, I do not doubt. That you have failed miserably and are content to accept such failure is evident. When this is viewed alongside your eagerness to engage in a pre-emptive war based on false causes, your atrocious silence as Lebanese civilians were mercilessly bombarded by Israeli forces and your inability to voice any form of meaningful dissent to the increasingly incoherent and ludicrous schemes of George Bush, it is clear that you have lost you way, morally.

You are a Chamberlain type figure, unwaveringly pursuing an increasingly desperate policy of appeasement towards the Bush Administration and hoping anxiously that through some last minute miracle the damage they have done to the ideals of Democracy, Freedom and Justice will be erased from the world’s collective memory. As should be apparent to you by now, President Bush is not a man of honour and further affronts to the Western standards of Democracy and Justice by the collection of sociopaths who currently run the White House are inevitable.

Your policy of appeasement towards the US has lead to immeasurable damage being done to the people of Iraq, to the ideals of Freedom and to the reputation of the UK government as an active defender of International Law and Human Rights.

I therefore respectfully ask that you resign as Prime Minister immediately.

Yours sincerely

AJ Bladderwait.