Without wishing to harp on about Syria, I was a tad miffed to see that a member of HM Government - or a minion thereof - had referred to Labour leader Ed Milliband as a f***ing c**t, because he opposed Eton Dave over military intervention. I'm glad that's out of the way, because those asterisks are bloody hard to pronounce, I can tell you.
Now, there can't be many people - including a lot of Labour supporters - who haven't reflected on the wisdom of Mr M's appointment as leader from time to time, but the obscenities do seem rather harsh.
What Ed Milliband said, in effect, was that his party was not prepared to give Dave an open cheque with which to go get him some Arab. They - quite rightly in a lot of people's opinion - asked that concrete evidence of who was responsible for the crime be provided before the punishment was meted out - always assuming we had the legal right to punish in the first place.
Seems reasonable to me. What our new Minsister for Verbal Abuse has done is to call most of the British public f***ing c**ts, because most people have - rightly or wrongly - been saying the same as Ed.
It's an aboose of 'ooman rights is what it is, but do not worry, because Eton Dave is dead against any such abuse.
Our Minister for Verbal Abuse will be gone very shortly, his house a smoking crater after a punitive air-strike by RAF Tornados.
After all, what's sauce for the goose................................................
You are dead right (possibly an unfortunate turn of phrase). Before you hang someone, you really should have a trial and find them guilty. Although the balance of probability places the blame on the government, there are many other 'scenarios', including rebels trying to frame the government, or even Al Qu'aida attempting to get the US involved. In any case, if we were intending to do something, why have we waited till now? People have been dying in their thousands for months. For some reason, poisoning them with sarin gas is beyond the pale, whereas blowing them up, shooting and burning them is OK in International Law. I'm perplexed....
ReplyDeleteAs are we all! A lady who used to live in Colchester - but now lives in Damascus - said on BBC Essex that she was overjoyed that we had not intervened, because it would have made matters worse.
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