Condems dumping human rights report-
The Observer has learned that civil servants have been told to stop working on the next edition of the FCO Annual Report on Human Rights, which highlights incidents of torture and oppression, monitors use of the death penalty and aims to expose the illegal arms trade. The report also acts as a guide to MPs and businesses over which countries it is ethical to trade with.
David ‘Torture’ Miliband now seemingly Labour leader when the media want a quick quote from the opposition
David Miliband, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour leadership candidate, said that it had “saved lives”, revealing atrocities in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gaza and Sri Lanka. “Britain has led the world in standing up for human rights and the coalition is taking a serious step back,” he said, arguing that the audit was not just “nice to have” but a crucial tool.
So this is it, a tribal party war of he said she said where one was terrible on human rights and one is trying to be terrible on human rights and appearances are maintained by the adversarial parliamentary system but in truth, Neoliberals use violence & torture to pursue their policies,Westminster squabbling is Punch & Judy to soothe the minds of chumps. One signifier that Labour are reforming would be David Miliband not being leader, is that so fucking hard? I mean how many Labour leaders have to go before enquiries on torture before they figure- Hey, y’know maybe that isn’t such a good thing for a party needing supporters, oh and get me General Pinochet’s corpse on the phone and tell him he’s not getting the Shadow Home Secretary gig after all.
