This is pretty funny! Gotta love the Brits!

From George Galloway:

Friends,
As you may know we are intent on getting the single War by Tony
Blair’s old band Ugly Rumours into the charts in the week after the
big Stop the War demo in London (Feb 24). You can register for the
chart download now by texting (if in Britain) peace1 to 78789. Do it
and it will be the biggest humiliation ever and will show the depth of
feeling against Blair and this illegal war. The cost of the download
is £1.50.

All of the profits on the single go to the Stop the War Coalition

If you are not in Britain go to www.uglyrumours.com where you can
download the single.

This is a musical referendum on Blair and the illegal war.

Please send this message or your own individual one to all of your
friends and contacts.

George

From the Ugly Rumors site:

Hi Pop Pickers,

You may or may not know that I was in a band at university called Ugly Rumours - which is a coincidence as it was my ugly rumours that got us into the war in Iraq in the first place! The war has killed approximately 650,000 civilians and more than 3000 British and US soldiers, without us finding any weapons of mass destruction.

I’ve joined up with Stop the War Coalition and on the 25/02/07 “Ugly Rumours” - fronted by yours truly - are putting out a cover version of the Edwin Starr classic “War (What is it good for?)”, we are aiming to get the track in to the UK pop charts for March the 19th, the 4th year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq to show the government what people really feel about their actions. (Plus I want to be remembered as the UK’s highest charting British Prime Minister of all time!)

You can buy/pre-order the track NOW or at anytime by texting the word “PEACE1″ to 78789 or by clicking the button below. You can buy it several times if you like, either way the song will only cost you £1.50 (plus standard network charges) with all the profits going to support the good work that Stop the War Coalition do. We only need around 5000 sales to get Ugly Rumours into the charts so please take the time to buy it NOW!

I know I didn’t give you a chance to vote on Britain going to war so please think of this as a musical referendum on me before I leave office!

PLEASE forward this site to as many people as you can and tell them about my great new single and video. (Check out my video below with cameos from my old friends, George Galloway, my real life sister in law Lauren Booth and Brian Hoare). You can join my Ugly Rumours fan club by entering you email address below, we will then send you exclusive video links for our other promos and information on how Ugly Rumours are progressing in the charts.

Yours always,

Tony Blair