Zimbabwe: sending a message
I’m not sure if it’s true of all governments but the ability to hold two contradictory ideas simultaneously is one that seems particularly New Labour. Tony Blair was Repugnant Moral Contradiction’s Patient Zero and the infection spread quickly to the rest of the party.
There’s no sign that they’re anywhere near to finding a cure. Take Zimbabwean refugees for example…
Attempts by Gordon Brown to use a meeting of G8 leaders this week to campaign for tougher action against Zimbabwe are in danger of being undermined by claims that Britain is forcing as many as 11,000 Zimbabweans seeking refuge here to make a stark choice between destitution or returning home to possible torture or death. Letters obtained by The Observer show that the Home Office continues to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence.
I’m not sure what happened to the moral compass Gordon Brown used to brag about. One can only assume that it’s at the menders after leading its owner up some dark and terrifying, piss-stinking blind alleyway. How else to explain the likes of this:
Sir John Waite, co-chairman of the Independent Asylum Commission, which has just published a report on the asylum system in the UK, described the situation as a source of shame.
He said: ‘We heard testimony from many Zimbabwean asylum seekers and we were shocked by what we found – Zimbabweans sleeping on sofas, in parks and launderettes, reliant on charity and prevented from working.’
Gordon Brown’s father was a committed Christian and church minister. They say Gordon’s ‘moral purpose’ came from his father. They say an apple never falls far from the tree. I say I’d quite to measure the seemingly enormous distance between this tree and its apple. I think it might constitute some kind of record.
Update: Has David Miliband had a letter telling him it’s now safe for him and his family to return to where they came from?
Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 11:27am under Human rights, New Labour
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For a short while back there, I actually thought that Brown and his Labour government could actually lead on this issue around the world and instead they manage to destroy any achievements their bluster may have given them.
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s latest blog post… Call Centre Blues
Miliband also a nasty racist innit? VERY selective about who he champions. He needs to read Palestinian Pundit, Uruk.net. Supporting violent zionism is racism in the first degree. His little children are precious but not those of middle easterners except those who live in shitty little Israel. Ugh
Steady on Annie, you’re not seriously thinking that Miliband is some kind of Zionist?
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Gordon Brown ( for it is he ): I have a cunning plan to really stick it up that Robert Mugabe!
Acolyte: Tell us, oh Master, of this cunning plan.
GB: This will hit the fat fucker where it really hurts! We will stop playing cricket against him!
Acolyte: Oh Master, what a cunning plan indeed. That will show him we mean business
What’s yur point, Danny?
And today in the Independent we learn that they’re doing the same to Darfuris. My jaw literally dropped.
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own with borders!!