The muzzie invasion of the UK started long before Blair became PM.
There are still those within the UK government who have the 'nads for covert ops and they have a certain ruthlessness sometimes missing from our own gov't. They also have the amazing ability to keep quiet about those kinds of ops instead of leaking every TS/SCI mission out to the press.
Blair likely has authorized more activities than we will ever know.
I hope youre right. Im just tired of hoping.