The most astonishing piece of news to have been greeted with relative apathy by the bourgeois press this week has to be the rumour that Tony Blair could be serving as a Middle East envoy. The very idea of this is as crass and insensitive as.... knighting a completely mediocre author, famous only for implying Islam is evil, or indeed a US president hiding his watch when on a tour of Albania because he thinks they are all thieves.

Clearly there is a prevalent sentiment amongst the ruling classes of Britain and America that the working men and women of the Middle East are a bunch of intellectually prostrate orang-utans, who, when not obediently pumping oil under rifle sight, sit around absorbed by psychologically honed advertising, occasionally feeling vague emotions.

And, whilst most are scratching their heads, not because Blair isn't to be joining the extending dole-queues next week, but because he isn't being tried for genocide, the western bourgeoisie clearly feel he is emblematic of their ongoing ‘policies' in the Middle East. This clearly shows how completely detached from reality the ruling class have become.

What can we expect next? Is Maggie Thatcher (whilst she still has the breath left in her to waddle) going to be touring the numberless destroyed mining communities of Wales in an open top limousine? Or maybe Monsanto has a plan to feed the world?

At a time when the self-proclaimed legitimacy of the international bourgeoisie is being shaken to its very foundations by the ceaseless acts of abhorrent violence and flagrant disregard for the opinions of those condemned to a life of wage slavery (if we're lucky), one can only muse at their utter idiocy.

But maybe it isn't such a bad thing! Perhaps Blair (minus the flak jacket) should tour the streets of Baghdad in a top hat proclaiming ‘New Iraq.... business friendly and forward-looking'. I would pay 24-hour viewing for that show. Blair should go to Iraq, our troops pulled out of this illegal mess and the Iraqi people left to make their own choices free of the violence created by an occupation force.

To add to this insanity is the news also that Brown plans to resurrect the politically dead by giving Ashdown a top post in his clowns cabinet. Well Caligula made his horse a member of the senate! Though I would imagine the horse more able and charismatic than Ashdown, and Caligula more in touch with reality than Brown.

The politicians should be sent to Iraq, since it is they who have a vested interest in the country, but the troops shouldn't be made to do the bidding of lunatic politicians and smiling oilmen. The only answer for the Middle East is a socialist federation ‘for the people by the people', not a choice between medieval clericalism and capitalist exploitation and barbarity.

Pull the troops out now and relocate the money spent on murdering Iraqi's to socialist programmes for and by the working class of Britain, in solidarity with the workers of Iraq and the Middle East. End this era of utterly corrupt decaying bourgeois politics fixated only on saving their own skins, and lets bring an era where people of all nations control their own destinies free from a world slipping into the abyss of violence and lunacy.