Cameron's Blair impersonation fails
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:40 pm
At the beginning of the week, William Hague who is even more of a warmonger than Blair which is really saying something, was talking about no need to get a Security Council resolution, no need to wait until the weapons inspectors had finished their work etc. etc. before lobbing cruise missiles into Damascus.
It reminded me of the same rush, rush, rush that Blair used in 2003. And then the so-called weak Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said No, we are not going along with this bullshit and we have to wait until the weapons inspectors have done their work and various military objectives have been outlined and discussed etc etc.
So Cameron changes his approach completely and as a result instead of having one vote tonight so that they could get bombing later in the week, he caved in and came up with a vote tonight and one next week.
Credibility blown, Cameron lost even this watered down motion.
So at long last we have stopped being the US poodle and the MPs appear to have taken on board that the electorate are not convinced that lobbing a few missiles into Damascus is going to stop in itself, the killing. It's not just a reflection on Iraq but also on Libya where we launched cruise missiles to defend the people of Benghazi whereas now the country has been taken over by militias vying for influence and filling the vacuum by killing and acting like Mafiosi.
Let's hope the UK now redoubles the efforts to get a ceasefire in Syria.
It reminded me of the same rush, rush, rush that Blair used in 2003. And then the so-called weak Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said No, we are not going along with this bullshit and we have to wait until the weapons inspectors have done their work and various military objectives have been outlined and discussed etc etc.
So Cameron changes his approach completely and as a result instead of having one vote tonight so that they could get bombing later in the week, he caved in and came up with a vote tonight and one next week.
Credibility blown, Cameron lost even this watered down motion.
So at long last we have stopped being the US poodle and the MPs appear to have taken on board that the electorate are not convinced that lobbing a few missiles into Damascus is going to stop in itself, the killing. It's not just a reflection on Iraq but also on Libya where we launched cruise missiles to defend the people of Benghazi whereas now the country has been taken over by militias vying for influence and filling the vacuum by killing and acting like Mafiosi.
Let's hope the UK now redoubles the efforts to get a ceasefire in Syria.