It is not such a bad Hague idea for UK and Canada to share certain Embassies. In future Scotland and Quebec might do the same.
Hague shared hotel rooms with his special adviser to “save money”. Good to see consistency in a politician.
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So this is why the Tories put Gay Marriage in their manifesto.
William Hague… is he the chap with the beard who drinks 14 pints a night?
Yep, wasp box, 14 pints and then he goes and storms some embassy to arrest a man who has not been charged with anything. indeed he commits hundreds of thousands if not millions in police and court costs to make out that this man COULD BE a criminal.
So what does this mean if a partner looses his accreditations for one or other reason? would leaving the other partner not be left with paying all expenses, defeating the object?
what if one country goes to war?, something the UK does every so often when it suits them and those who wag us, the tail.
Finally if one country holds a suspect, fugitive, refugee, wanted by the host country, is the other partner sharing the premises equally liable for giving him political asylum/refuge?
He can’t be gay as his wife had an abortion dontcha know. Now let’s draw a line under it! And let’s be clear, say what you like about our distinguished Foreign Seckatry, Mr Miscarriage, he didn’t let any gangsters pay for his young friend’s hotel bills, he insisted that the taxpayer pay for it all. And for my money that says a great deal about William. Lets be clear. We are very lucky to have him in the role of Foreign Seckatry.
There might be some physical boundary – say a patch of carpet or the door to a toilet cubicle – beyond which the suspect, refugee or what-have-you might claim political asylum from one of the partners against the other. William Hague is a brilliant man who has clearly thought this sort of thing through.
“In future Scotland and Quebec might do the same.”
Thanks Craig, best laugh I’ve had all week.
Other than that the post is just plain catty.
And what’s wrong with catty?
That raises the question… Who would be a good head of state for both Scotland and Quebec?
Well Billy fourteen pints has always been full of tricks, and this latest one does not surprise me.
The notion of trying to fuck up anything that is still remaining operational ought to have gone into overdrive with these latest revaluations.
@Eddie-G
“That raises the question… Who would be a good head of state for both Scotland and Quebec?”
Dunno about Quebec, but for Scotland my nomination is this guy – familiar sentiments on the BBC news. Non-Glaswegians, just pronounce phonetically and you’ll probably get most of it.
http://www.tomleonard.co.uk/main-publications/intimate-voices/the-six-oclock-news.html
La question est si on va demander que les Ambassades britanniques sont à mesure de réponder aux québecois en français au niveau attendu d’un fonctionaire fédéral canadien…
Are you applying for the post Tim?
President Salmond? 😈
Vronsky, thanks, always loved that poem, good to see it again. Grand that it’s being taught in schools.
I’ve just watched Peter Oborne’s Dispatches program about the Zionist influence on media and other activities. Incredible. It demonstrates the pressure put on William Hague for his denouncement of Israel’s retaliation against Lebanon as being disproportionate. I think there were 1000 deaths in the retaliation opposed to 2 in the original attack. It also shows the pressure people like Jeremy Bowen, Richard Dimbleby and Alan Rusbridger are under from the Zionist lobby. A battle they all seem to have lost. If you have not seen it it is a brilliant piece of honest reporting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E70BwA7xgU&feature=autoplay&list=PL813E682113845E3E&playnext=1
Breaking news from the BBC website: The BBC have just apologised for reporting the news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19716941
Presumably as part of a wave of mass cowardice induced by this Leveson stuff, it’s now a shameful breach of privacy to report what a major political figure says when lobbying the government on matters of public interest, even when that figure reports it to the journalist concerned, in person.
So much for investigative journalism…
@ Aim Here
Yup, Beeb apologises to the Queen for committing an act of journalism.
Goes back further than Leveson too; Hutton inquiry was a warning shot against precisely this type of reporting.
‘It is not such a bad Hague idea for UK and Canada to share certain Embassies.’
So two countries that support the |Zionist terror state join forces. How lovely for the Palestinians.
So the brainwashing corp: apologises to the unelected unacountable freeloading feudal fascistic relic,what else should one expect in our “democracy”?
Gardner did not specify which home secretary was lobbied, but it appears most likely to be David Blunkett, who held the post from 2001 to 2004, at the peak of Abu Hamza’s infamy before he was arrested. Following his initial arrest in August 2004, Abu Hamza was convicted in 2006 of 11 charges connected to soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.
There was no immediate comment from Blunkett’s Labrador.
What a wonderful caring and generous hearted Prime Minister we have in David Cameron and how jolly sporting of him to go on the Letterman show after he gives his speech.
David Cameron reaffirms UK aid pledge at United Nations
Mr Cameron is expected to argue that aid should be more transparent and accountable
David Cameron will reaffirm his commitment to increase Britain’s aid spending later, despite opposition from within his own party.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19709321
Obama is launching another tirade against Iran in his electioneering speech but will probably not mention the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons.
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More from Glenn Greenwald. Very damning.
New Stanford/NYU study documents the civilian terror from Obama’s drones
New research shows the terrorizing impact of drones in Pakistan, false statements from US officials, and how it increases the terror threat
A vitally important and thoroughly documented new report on the impact of Obama’s drone campaign has just been released by researchers at NYU School of Law and Stanford University Law School. Entitled “Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan”, the report details the terrorizing effects of Obama’s drone assaults as well as the numerous, highly misleading public statements from administration officials about that campaign. The study’s purpose was to conduct an “independent investigations into whether, and to what extent, drone strikes in Pakistan conformed to international law and caused harm and/or injury to civilians”.
The report is “based on over 130 detailed interviews with victims and witnesses of drone activity, their family members, current and former Pakistani government officials, representatives from five major Pakistani political parties, subject matter experts, lawyers, medical professionals, development and humanitarian workers, members of civil society, academics, and journalists.” Witnesses “provided first-hand
accounts of drone strikes, and provided testimony about a range of issues, including the missile strikes themselves, the strike sites, the victims’ bodies, or a family member or members killed or injured in the strike”.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-obama-drone-deaths
Aim Here and Anders 7777, I don’t like Hamza. Nevertheless there is no reason why a British subject should be extradited to one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Of the almost 8,000 people held in Guantanamo Bay only one has ever been brought to trial and convicted. The US controls Guantanamo Bay. I have a lot more sympathy for Babar Ahmad (already awarded £60,000 for being beaten up by our police) and the poet Talha Ahsan, (who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome) both of whom have been held without charge for more than 8 and 6 years respectively. This injustice has to be stopped.
Jack Straw is trying to snake his way out of his culpability for the war in Iraq. It just shows how deluded he is, he believes he could have stopped it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208155/Jack-Straw-I-stopped-going-war-Iraq-This-I-didnt.html
I left the following comment at the Mail but they did not use it.
“Absolute balderdash, Jack Straw. You knew exactly what was going on in Iraq. Hussein said he had no WMDs. Dr David Kelly said there were no WMDs. The ‘dodgy dossier’, don’t suppose you know anything about that either, was cooked up to take us into an illegal war. You’re trying to save your skin with the oncoming torture lawsuits and the possibility of a trial at the Hague for war crimes. Your father, your wife, and your children, had guts. Robin Cook had guts. You could not say no to Tony. I have no words to describe you that would not look disgusting on the page.”
Aim Here and Anders 7777, I don’t like Hamza. Nevertheless there is no reason why a British subject should be extradited to one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Of the almost 8,000 people held in Guantanamo Bay only one has ever been brought to trial and convicted. The US controls Guantanamo Bay. I have a lot more sympathy for Babar Ahmad (already awarded £60,000 for being beaten up by our police) and the poet Talha Ahsan, (who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome) both of whom have been held without charge for more than 8 and 6 years respectively. This injustice has to be stopped.
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Totally agree, extradition is only one way, and even US jails specialise in mental torture, not even getting into Guantanomo, that OBOMBYA pledged to CLOSE before the last election.
The USA is out if control, Israel is out of control, and the UK supports both.
OBOMBYA began his first day in office by killing a little Pakistani girl.
Says it all, really.
“Absolute balderdash, Jack Straw. You knew exactly what was going on in Iraq. Hussein said he had no WMDs. Dr David Kelly said there were no WMDs. The ‘dodgy dossier’, don’t suppose you know anything about that either, was cooked up to take us into an illegal war. You’re trying to save your skin with the oncoming torture lawsuits and the possibility of a trial at the Hague for war crimes. Your father, your wife, and your children, had guts. Robin Cook had guts. You could not say no to Tony. I have no words to describe you that would not look disgusting on the page.”
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Brilliant letter. Claire Short also stood up against the warmongers, but unlike Cook, who IMHO was whacked a la David Kelly, she was not considered to be a serious threat.
Roll on the war crimes trials!
On politican’s plans, could it possibly be that in recent times they have been giving intense scrutiny to the funding level of the Supreme Court?
With hindsight, might the complaint made last year by Lord Phillips in his lecture on judicial independence about the part funding by the Ministry of Justice be a veiled cry about an acute situation, rather than a general theoretical discourse about the separation of powers?
Did someone say he has retired since the EAW decision?
Lord Phillips doubts his own independence
by Carl Gardner on February 9, 2011
http://www.headoflegal.com/2011/02/09/lord-phillips-doubts-his-own-independence/
Anders7777, Roll on the war crime trials.
I read 800 people interned in Guantanamo Bay.
So a more convenient quantity of people to kidnap and torment in hopeless perpetuity…
yes I think up to 800 is correct Thatcrab over the years. Apols for the hyperbole. There are that many figures skating around in my head it’s a wonder the ice doesn’t crack.
A new educational video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bS1608Afr4