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It's no secret that Thom Yorke isn't much of a Tony Blair fan. Last year, he publicly turned down a meeting with the British Prime Minister to discuss climate change (on behalf of the Friends of the Earth campaign), because, Yorke said, Blair has "no environmental credentials."

Yesterday, in light of the heightened, multi-front war in the Middle East, Yorke called for the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister. On Radiohead's official blog, Dead Air Space, Yorke wrote:

"I've had enough of this. Our government sitting on the fence with the U.S. while World War 3 appears to be breaking out in Lebanon and Northern Israel. We must throw Tony Blair out of office NOW. He does not represent the views of the British people. He does not represent the views of his foreign office and officials. He does not even represent the view of those in his cabinet. He cares far too much about his relationship with Bush, and Murdoch. The man is not fit to be our Prime Minister. It's a nice sunny day. Come on, let's do it. You know it makes sense. A vote of no confidence. Or something. Anything."

For reasons unknown, the blog entry was quickly removed from Dead Air Space, though it's not hard to come up with conspiracy theories. (Radiohead being somewhat of a musical superpower and all.) Yorke's publicist had no further information.