Twiggy Garcia

I can't take anyone with the name of Twiggy Garcia seriously, but this is the name of the clown who says he tried to effect a 'citizen's arrest' of Tony Blair the other day - egged on by the Guardian columnist, George Monbiot.

Now I don't know George Monbiot personally although he seems to me to be a ridiculous person for encouraging people to behave in this way for an £8,000 reward - even though it is a perfectly meaningless exercise in the sense that the police are responsible for arresting criminals in the UK, while the former Labour Prime Minister has 24-hour police protection.

So it is just another political stunt which has attracted lots of adverse criticism from people who don't like 'Hipsters' - a especially irritating kind of individual, I am reliably informed, who specialises in getting up other people's noses.  

Which is what you would expect from someone with a silly name like Twiggy Garcia who appears to have walked off his job in return for a cheap news story, 15 minutes of fame and a chance to claim £8,000.      

Meanwhile Tony Blair seems to taken it all in his stride and a spokesperson from his office said:

"There is nothing to report here apart from fact that Mr Blair did offer to discuss the issue that offer was declined and the individual walked off. Nothing else happened. Everyone is fine and they had a great time at the restaurant."

All I can say is that that George Monbiot is a buffoon and if I come across him having a quiet family dinner or a meal with friends, next time I'm in London, I will gatecrash the party to tell George that he's a real cheapskate and deserves a good taste of his own medicine.

I can't stand these effete bullies - they can't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, if you ask me.  

Hipster who attempted citizen's arrest on Tony Blair awarded over £2000

By FELICITY MORSE

He might have quit his job immediately afterwards, but the London barman who attempted a citizen’s arrest on Tony Blair has been rewarded with a sizeable bounty for his efforts.

Twiggy Garcia was working at Tramshed in East London when the opportunity arose to confront the former Prime Minister.

As Mr Blair was dining with friends and family, the DJ turned barman laid a hand on the former Prime Minister’s shoulder and tried to arrest him for “crimes against peace..namely the decision to launch an unprovoked war against Iraq.”

The website that inspired his actions, George Monbiot's Arrest Blair website, has now awarded him a quarter of their funds, a total of £2222. Mr Monbiot explained he satisfied their conditions as not only attempted the citizen's arrest but attracted the attention of the media.

In Mr Monbiot’s words the bounty is deserved for “keeping the issue – and the memories of those who have been killed – alive, and sustaining the pressure to ensure that international law binds the powerful as well as the puny. “ However Mr Blair’s considered response to Mr Garcia, who also goes by the name "Ghoulian Assange" on Twitter, saw the barman come under a torrent of criticism on social media.

It seemed that Mr Blair’s unpopularity with a certain portion of the population was rivalled only by an instrinsic dislike of those considered “hipsters”.

“Can we alter the title of this article to 'annoying hipster harasses Tony Blair. Realises he looks stupid. Runs'? “ tweeted one social media user. As others weighed in with their opinions, it seemed many couldn’t decide who to dislike the most.

Speaking to CNN on Tuesday night, Mr Blair gave yet another “ Teflon Tony” performance, telling the broadcaster such episodes didn’t bother him. “If you intervene - as we did and removed on any basis a brutal dictator in Saddam who was responsible for hundreds of thousands of people dying - you end up with a very difficult set of consequences you have got to face up to “But if you don't intervene, as we see in Syria today, we are also facing very difficult consequences.”

A spokesman for the former Prime Minister told The Independent: “ There is nothing to report here apart from the fact that Mr Blair did offer to discuss the issue – that offer was declined and the individual walked off. Nothing else happened. Everyone is fine and they had a great time.”

Mr Garcia is the fifth person to have tried to arrest Mr Blair. He told Vice at the time: “ It will keep people from forgetting he is a war criminal. I hope one day he faces his charges in The Hague. People seem to think those laws only apply to Nazis and African warlords.”