FORMER deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has reportedly taken aim at his previous boss Tony Blair – allegedly suggesting that the "bloody crusades" in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to the radicalisation of a generation of young British Muslims ...
..Speaking at a fundraising event in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, last month, Lord Prescott is reported to have said that Mr Blair "wants to invade everywhere" and is "still into that" notion of regime change in the Middle East.
He is also believed to have suggested that young Muslims are turning to extremism after seeing grisly images on the television - including people being murdered and rockets fired, according to The Telegraph.
His comments come amid a growing anxiety surrounding a number of young Britons fleeing to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State.
He said: "I was with Tony Blair on Iraq. We were wrong.
"They told us it wasn't regime change. It was. And that's exactly what the Americans have had.
"Now Tony, unfortunately is still into that. I mean the way he's going now, he now wants to invade everywhere. Express.
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