Don’t mention the wars
A nice, easy ride for David Miliband in today’s Observer, as the Foreign Secretary gives a chilling warning that New Labour are looking to another ten years in power.
As an interview with a Foreign Secretary, the piece is an extremely curious beast with the strange omissions of any mention of Ir*q, Agh*nist*n or Ir*n. In fact, any mention of foreign policy is almost entirely lacking.
For that very reason, however, we can also see exactly what form a New Labour election campaign will take. Looking forward to it?
Posted on September 23rd, 2007 at 10:53 am
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Every time I hear the name ‘David Miliband’, I want to vomit. Surely I’m not alone? I’ve read two paragraphs, and if there weren’t wires and stuff coming out of my monitor, I’d have thrown it through a window. If I could add graffiti or write in the margins, I’d add “Obviously not piniching himself.” to the first paragraph and ‘Uriah Heep-like’ before ‘humility’ in the second. Fuck it, I’ve made paras 3 and 4 now. I like the idea that Brown’s first action was to address “perceptions” rather than do something - about, say, Iraq.
On the Politics Show he was on today and I thought that they rode him sufficiently hard, asked him questions he was obviously annoyed with and tried to deconstruct the double speak a bit.
In fact, any mention of foreign policy is almost entirely lacking.
Very much in line with the paper itself then, which appears to view foreign news as uninteresting to its target demographic.