Commons motion to impeach Blair gets go-ahead

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1354680,00.html

David Hencke, Westminster correspondent
Friday November 19, 2004
The Guardian

The parliamentary motion to impeach Tony Blair for "gross misconduct" over the war against Iraq will be published next Wednesday, the day after the Queen's speech.

It will be the first to be tabled in 198 years, since Lord Melville, a close friend of the then prime minister, William Pitt the younger, faced impeachment for misusing public money in running the Admiralty.

Senior parliamentary officials, including legal advisers to the Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, on Wednesday night approved the wording of the text as meeting parliamentary rules, allowing the motion to be tabled on the first day of the new session. The Tory chief whip, David Maclean, has paged every Tory frontbench MP telling them not to sign it.

[Winamericaback]

1. Lovely

They impeach their idiot and we re-elect ours *sigh*

[Liberal Mommy]

2. I saw this

It kinda gave me false hope that our chimp might get impeached as well.

[Blue Wally]

3. Any Democratic Congressman

in the House of Representatives can propose impeachment. Of course he may be just a "voice crying in the wilderness". and his bill will die in committee.