Here in America, when our leaders lie us into a war and then completely fuck it up, we re-elect them with a mandate to do more of the same. On the other side of the pond they take gross dishonesty and incompetence a little more seriously :

A motion to impeach Tony Blair for “gross misconduct” over the Iraq war has been tabled in Parliament.

A total of 23 MPs have put their names to the motion, which is the first attempt to impeach a Prime Minister for 198 years.

The MPs say that the Prime Minister misled Parliament and the country over the case for war, destroying “the fundamental principle of parliamentary democracy”.

The group wants a select committee to be set up to examine the Prime Minister’s conduct in relation to the war and to consider whether there are sufficient grounds to impeach him on charges of gross misconduct.

It says the Government should consider the conclusion of the Iraq Survey Group, that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, and the declaration by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, that the war was illegal.

The group also wants the committee to consider whether there are sufficient grounds to impeach Mr Blair on charges of “gross misconduct in his advocacy of the case for war and in his conduct of policy in connection with that war”, the MPs demanded.

Don’t fret, fellow Yanks. Here’s the smoking gun that will make impeachment of our leader inevitable :