What's the story on Michael Meacher?

[prophetlady]

Just now watching a videotape interview with him on Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet TV.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/110805jonesinlondon.htm">www.prisonplanet.com/arti...london.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Not familiar with this guy (sorry!) but he seems very knowledgeable and sincere. Can someone provide more info? <p></p><i></i>

[Sokolova]

Meacher is a onetime leftwinger in the Labour Party who became pretty mainstream under Kinnock and Blair, but then suddenly seemed to rediscover his Left credentials again during the Gulf War.<br><br>Not sure how genuine he is. But then how can we ever be?<br><br>Ellie <p></p><i></i>

[ewastud]

Meacher tends to have automatic respectability and credibility being a 30 year member of the British parliament and a 6-year member of Blair's cabinet (as the Minister of Environment), until he was fired about 3 or 4 years ago because of his opposition to genetically engineered crops. He wrote an outspoken and controversial article in the Guardian titled "This War on Terrorism is Bogus" I believe in Septmber of 2003 which greatly annoyed Blair and Bush. The article questioned whether the 9/11 attack was an inside US government job to provide a pretetxt for the Neo-Cons desired wars in the Middle East to take control of its oil resources. Meacher also wrote a preface for Griffin's book A New Pearl Harbor. <p></p><i></i>

[wintler]

He's written & done loads of media supporting quite a number of pro-Bios, anti-war/corp.globalisation causes, including GMO's, climate change, & oil depletion. Not quite the passionate visionary Monbiot is, but similar bent. <br>Read nothing of his that really smelt, sometimes underwhelming (aren't we all), but i regard as a 'friendly'. <p></p><i></i>