British author Tom Sharpe on Tuesday used a presentation of his latest satirical farce 'Wilt in Nowhere' to lash out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair for supporting the US invasion on Iraq.

"Tony Blair is right wing, much more to the right than (former prime minister) Margaret Thatcher," opined Cambridge-educated Sharpe, attending the presentation in Barcelona, Spain.

"He is doing much more damage than Thatcher and is destroying our faith in politics," Sharpe said.

Warming to his theme, Sharpe, 76, added: "(US) President (George W.) Bush doesn't need toilet paper. He has Blair," and said he hoped that Democratic challenger John Kerry would unseat Bush in next month's US presidential election.

Sharpe, who gained notoriety with his debut novel Riotous Assembly set in apartheid-era South Africa, also drew a parallel between the US-led and British-backed invasion of Iraq with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, which led to Britain declaring war on Hitler's Germany.

AFP