Noam Chomsky, Stephen Fry, Russell Brand sign the Sack Tony Blair petition

Russell Brand, has joined Stephen Fry, Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot and many more, calling for Blair to be sacked as Middle East Peace Envoy. Add your name now.

Friday 27 June, will mark the seven-year anniversary of Tony Blair’s appointment as the Special Envoy to the Middle East for the Quartet, which consists of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU.

The #SackBlair campaign, supported by public figures such as Russell Brand,Stephen Fry and Noam Chomsky, will be hosting a one-off open-top bus tour of London landmarks relevant to Blair’s Envoy role. A public petition on Change.orgcalls for his immediate removal from the position.

The tour’s centrepiece will be a protest event at lunchtime in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair. The square is home to both the US embassy – the US are the Quartet member understood to have selected Blair – and Tony Blair’s London office.

The bus, dubbed the SackBlairmobile, will circle the square calling for the US government to drop Blair as the Envoy as a result of his legacy of destruction in the Middle East and his failure in the position.

Beginning at Parliament at 10am, the bus will drive straight to the QEII conference centre, where the Iraq Inquiry was held, to emphasise the absurdity of a man responsible for the current destruction in Iraq serving as a Peace Envoy in the same region.

The tour will then move on to the London premises of two more Quartet members, including the consulate of Russia in Kensington and the European Commission in Smith’s Square.

Also on the list is the Knightsbridge office another of Blair’s employers, JPMorgan Chase. Critics of his work as Envoy accuse the former Prime Minister of a conflict of interest between his roles, saying he has used his position as Envoy to strike deals in the West Bank from which JPMorgan stood to gain.

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