Go Home Condi!

Boos and smiles for Condi

MORE than 300 anti-war protesters greeted American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a Blackburn school but the visit was still hailed a massive success.

Boos rang out from many parents and around 150 children as Dr Rice arrived at the school with Foreign Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw.

They were joined by banner-waving anti-war protesters outside the school, chosen for the visit as an example of a top-performing ethnically-mixed school.

Some parents yesterday had demanded that headteacher Robin Camp-bell, withdrew his invitation for the US Sec-retary of State.

Around 70 per cent of the 1,200 pupils at Pleck-gate are Muslim and parents were furious they were not consulted about the visit by someone they blame for the war in Iraq.

I wonder if Condi will have time to fit in some shoe shopping while she is touring the north west of England!

Be sure to check out condiwatch.co.uk - a response to Jack Straw's invitation of Condoleezza Rice to the North West of England in March/April 2006