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Thursday 9 September 2010

David Milliband's lack of perspective

Yesterday Labour leader candidate David Milliband showed a shocking lack of perspective in his below twitter post.

Clegg says govt "acted wrongly" in 1972 in not investigating Father Chesney case. So why no investigation into Coulson?

So David a few questions for you.

1. How many Labour MP's where killed by Andy Coulson?
2. Considering that no final decision has been taken as to whether there will be an investigation why do you feel it is appropriate to claim that there will be no investigation of Andy Coulson.?
3. Why do you think it is apropriate to compare murder with an invasion of privacy?

I have e-mailed these questions to David milliband and will wait to see if he replies.

MP’s narcissism and David Camerons poor judgement


The News of the World phone “hacking”* is still being discussed in parliament. Surely this is another example of MP’s Narcissism. The alleged hacking of MP’s phones is not something for the house to discuss until the police finish their investigation. If the investigation is unsatisfactory in its thoroughness or it is clear that phones where “hacked” but the police cannot prosecute because it is not illegal, Then it is time for a debate and new laws** not before. The cynical side of me thinks that certain labour Mp’s are trying to Pre-judge Andy Coulson and the News of the World to score a cheap political point.

I can have little sympathy for David Cameroon in all this, what on earth was David Cameron thinking appointing a tabloid editor as an advisor! They will always have undesirable skeletons in there closet especially as the news of the world is infamous for its creation of news rather than reporting it. He Clearley was never fit to hold the post of Director of communications. This is like appointing Libya to the UN human right watch dog or Tony Blair Middle east peace envoy. Ohh they did do those things, damn.

*The accusation against Coulson and the news of world are not technically hacking but I use the word for convenience.
** Reading someone’s private messages should always be illegal unless there is a genuine threat to the country and if there is it should be passed to the police before publication.

Book Burning

The BBC today reports that the Dove World Outreach Centre is planning on burning the Koran. With a name like that you might have thought there leader Pastor Terry Jones would recognise the hypocrisy of what he wants to do and this would certainly make him a candidate for hypocrite of the year. Pastor Terry Jones said on Wednesday that his plan to burn the Islamic holy book is intended to draw attention to his belief that "something's wrong." Book burning is a sign that you cannot argue against the ideas contained within that book and that is further confirmed by the quote “something is wrong” So what is it that is wrong Pastor Terry Jones or are you simply seeking attention by burning a book? Sadly this just another piece of evidence that the United states version of christianity is more about attention seeking showmanship and money than the teachings of jesus. Ultimatley book burning is an admission of defeat and should always been seen that way.

Monday 6 September 2010

Labours Iraq and Afgahnistan war failings

The Telegraph today has a pretty obvious report about the Iraq war war by Sir Sichard Dannatt. that labour chronically underfunded the Iraq war was very obvious at the time. One of the most Damming revelations is that by early 2009, at a time when the Army was suffering a punishing casualty rate in Afghanistan, he had not had a face-to-face meeting with Mr Brown for six months. Eventually he was forced to “ambush” the prime minister during a chance meeting in Horse Guards Parade to get his concerns across;

He writes in his book: “History will pass judgment on these foreign adventures in due course, but in my view Gordon Brown’s malign intervention, when chancellor, on the SDR by refusing to fund what his own government had agreed, fatally flawed the entire process from the outset.

“The seeds were sown for some of the impossible operational pressures to come.”

Mr Blair “lacked the moral courage to impose his will on his own chancellor”.

Gen Dannatt warns the Coalition that carrying on with the current rate of casualties in Afghanistan – where more than 100 servicemen were killed last year – would be unacceptable. “We’ve got to have cracked it by 2014, 2015,” he said.

Who is the right choice for labour leader?

The Guardian has chosen to support right of centre David Miliband for the labour leadership. Now considering it is the right to far right of centre policies that got Labour kicked out of office does the Guardian really think that David Miliband is the man to regain Labours lost support?

I would not agree he is a self evident career politician -ok they all are but his desire is more obvious than most- who will say anything to get elected. He would most likely be a Tony Blair II not quite the same policies but certainly the same superficial charm on the service but an amoral machine underneath unable to think of people as individuals with their own dreams and desires and completely unable to grasp the reality that these dreams and desires may be different from his own just like his old master Blair. Finally how can the Guardian a supposed liberal paper support fro Labour leadership a man who as foreign secretary spent his time lying about government complicity in torture and defending the Iraq war. Is this really the man they want as Labour leader and presumably future prime minister?