FROM DOWNING STREET

In response to our letter (see stopwar.org.uk draft letter) we received the following letter, dated 03.08.06 from "the Direct Communications Unit" , 10 Downing Street:-

"Dear Mr Copsey,

The Prime Minister has asked me to thank you and Mr Ford for your recent letter.

Mr Blair would like to reply personally, but as you will appreciate he receives many thousands of letters each week and this is not possible.

The matter you raise is the responsibility of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, therefore he has asked that your letter be forwarded to that Department so that they are also aware of your views.

Yours sincerely,

M Davies"

We are writing back to Mr Blair to thank him for his letter and point out that if this matter is indeed the responsibility of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office would he be so good as to stop interfering in the work of "that Department" which,  as he well knows, condemns the green light given by Downing Street to the continuance of the war crimes pending a disingenous flurry of phoney diplomacy.