Agree about Blair. But you are correct it was Parliament which voted for the war and the Tories alone had the numbers to stop involvement. This pretty much always gets overlooked.
My view is it got involved in the politics UK political parties did not want to bother....in a sense it outsourced looking after the cleanliness of water, food standards, medicine, employment rights etc and funded things no one else wanted to fund. I have spoken before about pulling out of the...