Blair is an 'insane fanatic and narcissist'

Author, comedian and long-time Iraq war critic Jeremy Hardy told MEE that he felt Blair was "insane" a "fanatic" and also a "narcissist" who blindly "supported any project the White House would have come up with". 

"The fact that the Labour Party is still in awe of this mad man and want [current Labour Party leader] Jeremy Corbyn - who has been entirely vindicated today - to be replaced by someone more like the maniac who unleashed [the war] is extraordinary," he said. 

"It is not the way that politics should be decided - big countries deciding to re-order the world for their own whim. We cannot have a world order where big, well-armed, nations just decide who is going to be in power and then change their minds from year to year and kill 100,000s of civilians in the process. 

"Blair's god will deal with him - he is lacking any contrition or self-awareness and is zealous - but I think that he probably can't sleep at night. Not because of a sense of contrition but because of his narcissism and the fact that he hasn't come out of this looking like he had hoped. He is a legacy junkie. He wanted to go down in history as a hero and a great figure but he will go down in history as a maniac and that is what upsets him.