Prime Minister
Tom Dawkins Addresses the House of Commons on the Death of Former
Prime Minister Charles Flyte
Speaker of the House of Commons:
Honorable Members of this House: The Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Tom Dawkins: The Iranians did not kill our Prime
Minister.
Speaker of the House of Commons:
Order! Order! Let the Prime Minister speak. Order!!
Prime Minister Dawkins: PetroFex did.
Speaker of the House: Order! Order! Let the Prime Minister speak!
Prime Minister Dawkins: It seems the company was transporting a sample
of the new drone fuel in the plane the Prime Minister was using, the
same drone fuel that we now know accounted for the ferocity, though not
the onset, of the explosion at Scarrow which killed 19 people and
injured 94. The container was damaged in an accident at Houston Airport
in Texas and probably came into contact with a catalyst in the hold when
the plane passed through an electrical storm.
Am I certain of this information? No, I'm not.
Speaker of the House: Order!
Prime Minister Dawkins: Am I certain that
Sami Sharour blew the plane up
acting on Iranian instructions? No, I'm not. Am I sure that a shadowy
coalition of the markets, the banks, big business, and Americans will go
into meltdown if peace breaks out? Again, no I'm not. But I put this to
you: Are we going to toss away countless British and Iranian lives on
the strength of information we're less than sure of? You tell me.
Because you're going to have to vote on this.
So let's put ourselves on the line here for once -- like Agnes Evans
did, like Tony Fossett did. Let's forget party allegiance, forget vested
interests, forget votes of confidence. Let each and every one of us
think only of this: Is this war justified? Is it the people of this
country want?
Speaker of the House: Order!
Prime Minister Dawkins:Is it going to achieve what we want it to
achieve? And if not, then what next?
Speaker of the House: Order!
Prime Minister Dawkins: Well, I'll tell you what I think we should do.
We should represent the people of this country, not the lobby companies
that wine and dine us, or the banks and the big businesses that tell us
how the world goes round; not the trade unions that try and call the
shots, not the civil servants, not the warmongering generals, not the
security chiefs, not the press magnates and multi-millionaire donors
demanding dinner at Number Ten; not the whips, not the party lines, not
the status quo.
The people of this country, I put it to you, do not want another war. Of
that, I am sure -- sre enough to stake my political career on it.
Speaker of the House: Order!
Chief Whip Charles Dance:
Tom, please. Enough.
Prime Minister Dawkins: No, John, it's not enough. It's not nearly
enough.
I'll tell you what enough should be. Enough would be learning from our
past and not bulldozing our way into another unwarranted, illegal war.
Enough --
Speaker of the House: Order!
Prime Minister Dawkins: I say enough would be returning democracy to
this House --
Speaker of the House: Order!
Prime Minister Dawkins: -- and to the country it represents. To that
end, I take the unprecedented step...of calling for a vote of no
confidence in my own government.
Speaker of the House: Order!
Prime Minister Dawkins: If you want war with Iran and you want business
as usual, go ahead. Vote against me. But if you are prepared to take
back responsibility and to take a step into uncharted territory for
something that you really care about...something that you believe is
right, join me and vote against this government.
