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Facebook protest group takes time to 'reclassify' the former prime minister's memoirs in British book shops

Alexandra Topping

guardian.co.uk

When Tony Blair called his much-awaited memoirs A Journey, he probably expected its journey into bookshops would be relatively straightforward.

But a Facebook page was today inundated with pictures of the former prime minister's book in odd places after thousands joined a group entitled "http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150746811621277">Subversively move Tony Blair's memoirs to the crime section in bookshops".

The Facebook page – which had more than 5,000 members by mid-afternoon – urges them to "make bookshops think twice about where they categorise our generation's greatest war criminal".

The group was started by nursing student Euan Booth – no relation to Euan Blair, or indeed Cherie Booth – to protest about the book and Blair's record in Iraq. He had thought of staining books with fake blood – but wanted to take action that was non-criminal and peaceful. "It is mischievous, but no one is coming to any harm," he said. "It is a very English way of voicing your opinion and is meant to be a bit of fun."

Booth, 24, attended Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry, but was frustrated by not being able to convey his own feelings about the war to Blair. "I was absolutely livid that this bloke could still be walking around and lying to the British people. The war was based on a complete pack of lies and we are still paying the price of that," he said. Last Thursday, he decided to take the matter into his own hands. "If it gets back to him in some small way that this is what people think about him, I will be pleased. He hasn't profited from the book but he has a channel to voice his opinions about this. I don't and I'm trying to take that back."

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/05/tony-blair-memoirs-facebook-group