One member of Parliament deeply troubled about the current direction in which Great Britain is heading is Conservative Roger Gale. A former BBC reporter and producer, Gale is well known for a popular teen-oriented program he once worked on in the '70s. Additionally, Gale has served on the Home Affairs and Armed Forces parliamentary committees. He also served on the Speaker's Chairman Panel that chairs all bills before Parliament. Gale was elected to Parliament in 1983, representing the North Thanet constituency.

When Gale speaks about Prime Minister Tony Blair, there is no question about his belief that this nation is indeed moving in the wrong direction and that her course must be reversed immediately.

"At times, Tony Blair seems incapable of telling the truth, and he believes his own lies," Gale said. "Even petty things, like how he watched a certain soccer match, sitting behind the goal mouth of a certain team and player who was never there.

"Blair also spoke openly about how, when he was a boy, he stowed away on a plane which went to the Caribbean," added Gale.

Blair claimed his flight to the Caribbean originated from Newcastle Airport, but when he was a boy, there were no flights to the Caribbean from there, said Gale.

Gale, who defeated Blair's wife, Cherie, when she ran for the same parliamentary seat in 1983, continued, "Blair exploits the Royal Family. Blair hates the United Kingdom - he wants to break it up. Blair's breakup of the UK has actually gone so far that, under the present structure of government, it is irreversible. He makes statements to the press before speaking about the same issues to the House of Commons. He is a good deliverer but not a real performer. He is a good deliverer of other people's ideas."

Said Gale, "But you must understand: Blair can exploit any issue. When his son was arrested for drinking, he made a speech in fact, saying, 'Oh, I am a parent just like the average citizen and I, too, feel your concerns for your children.'"

Blair also has said he is "terrified" of his son getting involved in drugs, although the Labour Party has handed out campaign literature at "rave" parties in which British teenagers are taking the drug "ecstasy," which is currently sweeping the UK and Europe like a wildfire. Traditionally, the foreign policies of the U.S. and UK march in lockstep. When the complete human genome was recently documented, Blair and President Bill Clinton together addressed the world on that subject via satellite hookup from both sides of the Atlantic. Some consider Blair to be a "control freak," obsessed with controlling the members of his Labour Party, especially what they say to the press.

Despite his detractors, Blair was elected in 1997 in a landslide, one in which Gale managed to retain his seat as an MP by 2,270 votes.

What's in a name?

One example of political correctness in the UK that has emerged under Blair is the assertion that "Britishness" means racism.

"The Labour Party is now saying that it is actually wrong to be 'British' because Britishness is racism," said Gale, in reference to the Labour desire to destroy all ethnic or racial nation-states.

Added Gale, "Our immigration policy is in tatters because of Blair. We have so many economic migrants pouring into the UK."

According to a recent report penned by Bhikhu Parekh, a professor of political science at the University of Hull, "Britishness" and "Englishness" are racially coded terms.

The study was embraced by Blair's minions, yet rejected, at least in part, by Home Secretary Jack Straw, a Labour Party member.

Gerald Howarth, a Conservative Party lawmaker, called the report "politically-correct garbage."

"The overwhelming majority of the population are homogeneous, white, Anglo-Saxons," Howarth said. "We haven't been invaded for 1,000 years [since the Norman invasions of 1066 A.D.]."

Britain's population stands at 56 million. Of its citizenry, over 93 percent are white -- not counting 2 million Irish who are counted in a separate fashion. Residing in the nation are 350,000 Africans, 800,000 Afro-Caribbean immigrants, 230,000 Bangladeshis, 170,000 Chinese, 950,000 Indians and 570,000 Pakistanis.

Some areas around London are over 30 to 50 percent non-white, and many non-white immigrants are also worried about retaining their own cultural, ethnic and religious identity. Many minority groups are tired of looking at themselves as "minorities" and are eager to participate in all areas of life and culture as equals, rather than "oppressed and alienated minorities" on the outskirts of society.

Straw, commenting on the report, said he rejected the report's assertion that Britain was a "mixture of communities" such as Scots, Welsh, Irish, English and the immigrant communities.

"I do not accept the arguments of those on the nationalist right or the liberal left that Britain as a cohesive whole is dead," said Straw. "Britishness has become inclusive with people happily defining themselves as black British or Chinese British."

Parekh, who graduated from the University of Bombay, stated of his report, "We do not denigrate British history. There is a very important role for a common national culture and a common civic nationality. But we are requesting that this common culture needs to be discussed and renegotiated."

Parekh's ideas on "renegotiating" Britain's common culture were soundly rebuffed in an editorial by the Daily Mail: "Such were the means by which Stalin and Hitler twisted the past to suit their own political purposes."

New woes for 'New Labour'

When Blair and Labour came to power, major pundits were stating that the Conservatives would "never come to power again." Yet men like Gale are quick to highlight points of destabilization within Blair's regime and feel that the prime minister is vulnerable.

A combination of factors contributed to Blair's huge win. Then-Prime Minister John Major had grown stale in the public's eye. His muddled message and post-Gulf War recession soured the public on him. Furthermore, Blair has transnational media powerbrokers like Rupert Murdoch in his corner.

According to Gale, "It's well known that Blair, before becoming prime minister, traveled to Australia to meet with media mogul Rupert Murdoch."

What did they discuss? According to Tracey Kinchen, a former MI-6 intelligence field agent, "Blair and Murdoch struck a deal. Murdoch told Blair that he would switch the support of his British tabloid -- The Sun -- from Major to Blair. The quid pro quo was that Blair would, when taking the chair of the rotating European presidency [Britain was given first crack at the presidency as an inducement to join the EU], grant Murdoch's satellite TV network almost unlimited broadcasting rights around the European continent. Poor John Major, he was a very nice and decent man. But he had too many principles and owned too few newspapers and satellites."

Some newspaper polls have shown that Blair's popularity has been steadily dropping, reaching a low suffered by the Conservatives in 1992. Conservative leader William Hague stated that Blair's government was "paying the price for arrogance and complacency and broken promises."

The recent fuel crisis surely helped stoke the fires of resentment. In the UK, if one buys £10 worth of petrol, £7 are paid as a tax. Blair has refused any tax concessions, which are used, in part, to pay for social programs. Blair said his taxes on petrol were "a victory for democratic government." Today over 85 percent of Britons want taxes on Petrol reduced and a large majority supported the fuel-price protests.

A poll in The News of the World indicates about 38 percent would vote for the Conservatives and 36 percent for Labour in a current election. Fully 73 percent said Blair was "out of touch and arrogant." Just 18 percent said Blair was "in tune with the nation." Public opinion has fallen dramatically since Labour's 1997 election victory in which the party won a 179-seat majority in the House of Commons.

Gale told WorldNetDaily that the Blair win was, in terms of the votes, not as overwhelming as the media presented it.

"Blair actually received less popular votes than John Major did in 1993," said Gale. "The Tories [Conservatives] had been in power for so long that people were fed up with them."

In the recent elections held at the end of last summer, the Conservative Party won almost 600 local council seats, this after the party also gained a victory in the European Parliament elections.

On a local level, Labour's landslide indirectly led to the ascension of Ken Livingston -- known as "Red Ken" because of his pro-Marxist views -- to the office of mayor of London. One of Livingston's most recent actions was to announce his desire to take down all the statues of Napier, Havelock and other heroes of the British Empire and replace them with ones of his choosing. Blair, through back-door maneuvering, actually tried to deny Livingston the chance to run for mayor. But "Red Ken" left Labour and ran successfully as an independent, with Conservative candidate Steve Norris coming in second and the official Labour candidate, Frank Dobson, being humiliated.

Blair's red carpet

One of the ugliest blemishes on Blair's record, according to his critics, is the way he has dealt with communist leaders in North Korea, Zimbabwe, China and Russia.

Some analysts charge Blair with coddling Russian President Vladimir Putin at the height of the Chechen war. Instead of confronting Putin over the Russian army's human-rights abuses during the conflict, Blair flew to St. Petersburg and praised Putin's "intelligence," "toughness" and "un-Sovietness." Many believe Blair fears Russia's instability and nuclear arsenal.

Blair has also been less than confrontational with the communist government of China. London police brutalized British citizens who peacefully protested the visit to the UK by China's dictator Jiang Zemin. The beatings were recorded, in some cases, by major international media outlets and broadcast throughout the world. The British protesters were demonstrating against China's human-rights record -- its persecution of Christians, Falung Gong and political dissidents and forced abortions and organ harvesting. The main focus of the protest was China's occupation and suppression of Tibet.

Said Gale, "The police reaction concerning the visit of the communist Chinese leadership and their visiting dictator -- my personal reaction in hindsight is that it was heavy-handed and over the top. These kind of demonstrations are hard to police. It is really a lose-lose situation for the police. If they are too rough, they are criticized. If they don't handle the crowds well and something goes wrong, then they are also criticized. Paul Condon, the police chief in charge for this event, is a straight shooter. And he said that no politics were involved. Home Secretary Jack Straw has authority over the metropolitan police as in no other county."

Another problem confronting the police is what to do about the Shiite Muslims on the streets of London openly calling for jihad against "white and Christian Europe." These radical Muslims openly invite others of the same bent to come to Afghanistan for military training. So far, the official police response has been, "Unless they commit an actual crime, we cannot arrest them."

Just recently the Blair regime announced that it was establishing formal ties with North Korea. Blair's Foreign Office said engagement, not estrangement, was the best policy toward the Stalinist country of 22 million people.

"This allows us to engage with North Korea on issues of human rights and those related to non-proliferation,'' said a British Foreign Office spokesman.

Additionally, the Blair regime has also befriended the new Marxist ANC government in South Africa while at the same time abandoning the Kurdish Resistance Movement based in part in the UK.

Many believe Blair's policy toward the UK's former colony of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe to be the most egregious. Blair's government stood back while Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe ordered the murder of white farmers and many of his black political opponents.

Blair's "hands off" policy concerning Zimbabwe does not apply to all of Africa. He dispatched legions of British troops to protect the diamond profits of Sierra Leone, another former British colony. Sierra Leone had been brought under control by Executive Outcomes, the Apartheid mercenary army, but when the mercenaries pulled out, the diamond profits of the white, wealthy British mine-owners were threatened. Hence Blair's dispatch of the troops. Blair's government has also offered the pro-Western, anti-communist UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi asylum in the UK and the chance to keep all of his wealth -- if he will abandon his three-decade-long war against the Russian-backed MPLA regime in Angola. By surrendering, Savimbi would, in fact, be turning over the vast mineral treasures of southern Angola to the U.S. and the UK. The MPLA has been long financed by British and American oil and mining companies, and trained by Executive Outcomes.

According to Blair's critics, his support for the United Nations' goals of world government, the erosion of British sovereignty via the European Union and the U.N.'s recent declarations to strip the UK of all of her foreign territories add to the prime minister's foreign policy missteps.

Trouble in paradise

Blair has many other issues to deal with as well. One such issue relates to the recent government findings concerning drug abuse, alcoholism among women, teen-age pregnancy and unwed mothers (40 percent of all births in 1998 in the UK were out of wedlock) -- all of which are either highest or among the highest in all of Europe. In terms of drug use by young people, national surveys have shown that over 50 percent of those between 18 and 24 in the UK have experimented with drugs. In France, within the same age group, it is about 33 percent. Cocaine use under Blair's time in office has almost tripled and heroin is a major problem compared with the rest of Europe.

In response, Blair has been accused of trying to adopt John Major's "Back to Basics" program aimed ostensibly at addressing these social ills. It has been said that Labour, throughout the 20th century, was fragmented, disorganized and reactive, instead of proactive. Blair is trying to change that image.

"Drugs are a real threat to our society. But from my own study of drugs, I've found out that kids will not automatically progress to harder drugs. People find the drug they are comfortable with and stick to it," said Gale.

"The youth I've known are pretty conservative. I am not saying the young people never have sex or get drunk. But in general, they care about the elderly and the environment. We have great kids in the UK."

Other problems Blair has tried to address are the Soviet-style waiting lines for access to the UK's National Health Service. For example, a heart bypass can take over 13 months to schedule and, while 60 percent of Americans survive colon cancer, less than 30 percent of Brits afflicted will pull through. The vast majority of British people -- of all political persuasions -- seem to have a "soft spot" for the concept of the National Health Service, so major reforms will be difficult to push through for any British leader, no matter what his or her party affiliation might be.

Then there are the long-term unemployment problems, rising crime (over 50 million crimes documented by the police in 1998) that has now led to the arming of the police with actual firearms, high taxes, the longest workweek in all of Europe and rising class sizes in schools.

Concerning Blair's pro-European Union agenda, Gale is resolute.

"As I said, Blair's breakup of the UK has gone so far that under the present structure of government, it is irreversible. If you believe in the United Kingdom, as I do, then what can one do to redress this issue? I would abolish both houses of Parliament and create an English Parliament like they now have in Scotland. We would have fewer than 659 members sitting now in the chambers of the House of Commons. I would abolish also the House of Lords. The House of Lords, as now constituted, is a half-baked entity. I call them 'Tony's Cronies,'" Gale concluded.

No Labour Party prime minister has ever been elected to a second full term. Blair hopes to reverse that trend and buck the forces of history. Only time will tell if he will prove successful.

Anthony C. LoBaido is a longtime contributor to WorldNetDaily.com