Leadership Quote by George Galloway

Galloway’s line is a political obituary written in real time: it doesn’t argue that Tony Blair made mistakes, it insists Blair’s entire legacy collapses into one act of submission. The insult is surgical because it borrows the language of memory and history, then narrows it to a single image of catastrophe. “Will be remembered for nothing other than” isn’t prediction so much as a threat: history, he implies, is a courtroom and Blair has already been sentenced.

The cliff metaphor does heavy lifting. “Followed George W. Bush” frames Blair not as a co-author of the Iraq War but as a second-in-command who chose loyalty over judgment. That’s the subtext Galloway wants to brand into the public mind: the special relationship as moral surrender. “Took the rest of us with them” widens the charge from elite wrongdoing to collective punishment, yoking ordinary citizens to the fallout: lives lost abroad, trust corroded at home, the normalization of spin and intelligence laundering.

Then comes the twist that makes it sting: “we haven’t yet reached the bottom.” It’s not only that the war was disastrous; it’s that its consequences are still accruing, still unfurling into instability, backlash, and cynicism. The phrase “I’m afraid” performs a final bit of political theater - a half-sincere shudder that reads as controlled contempt. Contextually, it lands in the long shadow of Iraq, where Blair’s promises about weapons and liberation were replaced by inquiries, protests, and a credibility crater. Galloway’s intent is simple: freeze Blair in the moment he hitched Britain to Bush, and refuse him any redemption arc.