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John Rentoul in The Independent does not try to rationalise why Blair is hated. Instead he gives a great insight into why Liberal people dislike Blair and those who act like him. A series of smears of your opponents and then a crude summary of what he thinks is what they think and why. The classic anti intellectualism that reached its nadir under Brown. I assume like Blair playing with Prescott Rentoul’s just trying to get a rise as it’s all he has left (there you see I did it myself spoke for him with a nasty explanation of why he does things).

Rentoul basically accuses people of not listening to reason whilst seemingly smearing and trying to infuriate readers. However I thought I’d answer why I have a low view of Blair.

Truth be told in the devalued world of the internet I guess I am a hater although my distaste for Blair is nothing compared to the genuine visceral hatred I have for Gordon Brown. Brown a man, but not in the John Wayne sense, whose every utterance and action is aimed at self aggrandisment and whose lack of intellect and morality are so stunning it’s beyond my credulity that he was ever allowed to ascend to the leadership. I would not even try to rationalise my distaste for Brown save to say I am grateful we are not in the Euro and now go away and not be heard of again.

However there is a point here deep in our subconscious a dislike so great that you will not listen to a word someone says needs to be addressed. It amounts to prejudice or bigotry at that point. On Blair I think I can justify my view but maybe there is something that defies argument and explanation (Another flaw in Rentoul’s argument if people’s dislike defies argument then it defies explanation! The content that spews forth is a rationalisation not an explanation but then expecting nuance from a Blairite is silly of course).

So to Blair. Why do people like me who consider themselves Liberal (even if we are not in cliques as Rentoul  smears) have such odium for the man who brought us 13 years of non Tory Govt.

• Liar! Never really phased me. The Foreign Secretary said that the Weapons of Mass Destruction were a myth so anyone fooled was probably wanting to be lied to – after all Robin Cook would know better than anyone else as Foreign Secretary. I pretty much accept the Jack Straw view that it was baloney but we did not see much downside in the war.

  Anyone who had read the news on Iraq over the years would have known the country would have struggled to organise a Barbecue after the Gulf War and sanctions bit. If Parliament wanted the WMD fig leaf don’t blame Blair blame yourselves.The problem is that people dislike liars and politicians have opted instead for the incompetence defence – see MI5 and MI6 claiming they did not know the US tortured even though it was clear when they junked the Geneva Convention in the same bin as the post invasion plan of Iraq and was announced in the media and on Channel 4 news. More on this later.Sadly Blair does seem to want to rationalise it and after 58 excuses and rationalisations settled on how proud he was to get rid of a dictator like Saddam, said the main who kissed the souls of Gadaffi’s shoes.

• Corruption. It’s become accepted and a part of every day Govt under Labour – I am not talking about financial graft here. Like roping in the nasty little spook Scarlett to the so called Dodgy Dossier and then promoting him it showed a preference for fawning subservience and broken men who would do their bidding over anyone else.This was repeated with Sir Ian Blair who made a victim of himself in someone else’s murder. He was then wheeled out as required to support even more ludicrous draconian nut case policies.
  It was this aspect of the wars that needled me.The military also were paid off. Their incompetence and waste in procurement brushed under the carpet. Indeed the Govt took the hit over Helicopters for Afghanistan from the clowns who’d wasted more than enough money to provide them. The laughable scenario where we bought helicopters and tried to penny pinch on the software rendering them unusable.
• Incompetence. This became the New Labour ethos. No one lied they just knew nothing. MI5 even this year as it’s revealed Blair and Straw actively had a hand in determining the rendition and “interrogation” of British subjects denies it knew anything about it. MI5 denies it read newspapers or watched Channel 4 news. No one turned marginal intelligence into the 45 minute claim it was a lack of responsibility and ignorance. Every failure was greeted with a I do not know.Blair and Campbell preferred to waste resources on an inquiry which no one believed to prove he had produced a load of crap without lying just by being foolish!
  PFI ruinously expensive and we are paying for 30 years, thanks.
  How hard was it to ensure under no circumstances that we did not torture and beat people to death in Iraq? Especially given the preferred explanation of why we were there, to free them from torture and murder. Indeed all we do is spend masses of money buying people off, denying and pretending it did not happen.
  Most successes were stroke of the pen and delivered by legislation never by management. Minimum wage.
• Death Toll. If I had a critique of the under rated Major Govt who laid the platform for Brown’s moronic economic management in this decade it was this why did they not clean the hospitals? Yet we had Milburn’s red alert, foundation status etc etc legislation and more legislation, PFI, NHS Direct,  etc, Yet why did C-Diff and MRSA stay a slaughter of thousands of people up to when in 2007 Alan Johnson the new Health Secretary said it was unacceptable – not sure he did much about it either! The seemingly pointless shift to Foundation Hospitals in some regions alone is said to have killed 100s. Talk to doctors and it’s the dirty secret.
• Rhetoric Led. They understood the media hence you have one Baby ‘P’ or Bulger and everone is sacrificed to be seen to be doing something. However as noted you kill 100s in the health service and it’s not an ongoing story just a day of embarrassment.One came to wonder at the nadir under Brown if policy was someone would come up with a line of rhetoric then develop policy from that without an inkling of goals, problems to be solved or strategy (Tough on Crime being so obvious I will use it anyway!). Just pass rafts of legislation and bore interviewers you have acted.
• Achievement Not Important. The aim of policy as the grim Asylum policies of the last few years was the generation of facts to show ‘that policy was working’. Anyone who has ever worked corporately can tell you what happens when there is a focus on numbers they move in the right direction – in the US all crime reduction miracles happen except murder as you cannot re-classify murder albeit Blair and Brown probably could.To reduce Asylum numbers and increase deportations the Home Office decided to go after and lock up families – rather ignoring the demographic reasons for immigrants! Thus the Coalition had a nice open goal of no longer detaining children.
• Internment. Possible the most fascist and illiberal policy I can think of any Western Govt contemplating was 90 day internment. It smears the entire Labour party who seriously contemplated it. As Ministers and advisors it taints for me all the serious leadership candidates. The sad fact is no one has been held for 28 days even.There are only three reasons for wanting this on the statute books. One some sinister scenario none of us can comprehend or want to and they do not want to explain to us why they want to hold people in limbo for 90 days. Two that it was manifest incompetence and they had no idea what they wanted. Three rhetoric led they assumed a frightened population who are not strong on individual liberty would want it and decided to play the tough on crime Joker. None of these reflect on more than the fascistic bent of those coming up with the Policy.
• Other Illiberality. Up and beyond a mere fault. CCTV does not solve or crucially prevent much crime but we can say we are doing something – people do not have number plates visible at all times sadly. ID Cards, where are your papers mein herr.

I could go on but the theme is this an obsession with perception not achievement. Of nothing being beyond the Pale if they thought they could sell it. So one could argue in a roundabout way Rentoul is right to say people resent winning elections. However that is not true. I think it was with the Tories still so unpopular they could barely scrape power in 2010 after 13 years of expensive incompetence that Labour had an amazing opportunity. The finances of the Clarke/Major years had begun to pay off the manifest incompetence and economic mismanagement of the Thatcher years. Yet what did they achieve that is lasting? That they achieved little but did it in an insulting stupid and illiberal manner I cannot see as anything to praise. The wars just add to their reputation of incompetence and led by tomorrow’s headlines.

I actually owe a great debt to Blair and Brown. Whilst I will never match the complex sophistry of self serving rationalisation nor the social intelligence of Blair I certainly have lost an inferiority I once felt of people with better grammar and Oxbridge education. That they should have bent their intelligence to polarising anti intellectualism shows what you cannot learn in education and the cloistered confines of The Law and The Labour Party.

In the end it’s the base Sun reader anti intellectualism that did peak under Brown when Alan Johnson 19 years a Postman had nothing to say on the Postal dispute and decided to mock science in the Commons. However the dye was cast.

Blair is a great Prime Minister in the way these things are measured but like Thatcher longevity is not the same as good or even competent. I’d take Major over them tomorrow and the next day.

Sadly their best policy may have been treating addicts with drugs to help the natural fall in crime. For some reason they never trumpeted this as its not one that makes for good rhetoric and would require nuance and explanation.

Contrary to Rentoul’s analysis for this liberal Iraq actually stands out in a positive sense. I believe the Straw position it was done in the national interest and that was to stay allied to the US. It was not done to sell Labour. It is a measure of the missed opportunity that a war conducted with such poverty of thought for Post Invasion Iraq did not cost them an election win in 2005.

They would have won 3 elections doing more good.

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I have been following the easy line on Park 51, it’s not a mosque and it’s not at the site of the former World Trade Center. End of. Yet a quote from Chris Hitchens in Slate struck me:-

One would want assurances, also, about the transparency of its funding and the content of its educational programs. But the way to respond to such overtures is by critical scrutiny and engagement, not cheap appeals to parochialism, victimology, and unreason.

This is not the uncritical unquestioning much of the left is indulged in. It recognises that much of what we are sold as mainstream or even moderate Islam is in fact anathema. The easy opinion let ‘them’ have their centre and let’s all glory in how open and tolerant we are it is not. Indeed the mirror Hitchens throws up shows a lot of the easy answers are mere rhetoric.

One has to ask who is funding and what is to be distributed at this Muslim Center. It is a fantasy that such a centre is necessarily benign. Worse to allow such a centre and find later it has pushed the kind of crack pot theories that al Quada  and the Taliban spew forth would be more damaging than not allowing this center.

Opponents of the proposed Center of course are delusional. Are they really saying that Americans cannot tolerate any vestige of Islam within 2 blocks of a terrorist act? Or that they blame Islam as a whole for the attack? What is their position or point? Where is the logic bar an illogical link with 9-11 because the murderers were Muslim.

It’s time for us on the left to move on and stop treating ethnic advancement and the stupidity of the right on racial and religious matters as proof of our own magnificence. I am not sure I’ll ever agree with Christopher Hitchens on Iraq and pretty sure on Afghanistan too but one can see why he moved from a self congratulatory Left that asks no hard questions and has propagated the vile and damaging racist theory of multiculturalism.

written by reaction \\ tags: Christopher Hitchens, Islam, Multiculturalism, Park 51, The Left

There was a time when obscure batsmen in Maidenhead and the surrounding area held a fascination for me. I would scour the local cricket scores in the Maidenhead Advertiser. Any deaths locally would hit home. Any thing that happened locally was covered. Now local papers are a dying breed. We have cut out local news from our news gathering. In addition people talk less to their neighbours. Where once I went out with school friends now its a succession of people from work.

Today I passed the bridges next to my house and there was a large  floral tribute on the Bridge to someone or something. It could have been a recent death or an anniversary. I did not know.

Lately despite scouring the country national news has found 3 or 4 people it seems who fiddled the benefit system and managed to convince morons that the comparatively small Jobseekers allowance payments are being ripped off to a large degree. Indeed Channel 4′s The Morning Line about horse racing had Jeremy Kyle twisting his mouth about scroungers as the low lives McCririck and the vile creep Nick Luck joined in. This was repellent as it was on a program about something else but one fears a scene happening in many middle class and working working class households as people pretend that the massive gap between vacancies and jobs would close if people were not scroungers!

My point being that people will extrapolate the world from seemingly trivial but well timed national stories which suit a political agenda of the Govt yet how many of us even know what our neighbours are doing now?  We think we know everything and yet many of us cannot tell you why there is a flower tribute on the Bridge up the road. The newspaper story does not even have to be strictly true or representative to set the cretins of this nation off.

We do not ask the unemployed near us or talk to them but will judge them on an exaggerated and single  bad example from the whole country?

For all the internet offers we fail to use the best means of getting information talking to people.

written by reaction \\ tags: Local Media, Politics of the Few, Scroungers, Tabloid Culture

I do not know who came up with the word multiculturalism a word for a racist concept that has no opposite – monoculturalism is not a word as my spell checker attests. It takes the  clothes of multi cultural society, a good thing, and twists them to support its opposite. The main application of this brutal creed by New Labour was the increased use of state funds to fund religious indoctrination. The result is religious schools can teach whatever religious theory it likes.

What I really object to is not so much this sad pathetic attempt to keep the coffers of the pedlars of superstition full for many years to come. Indeed judged on my friends brought up Catholic all a Catholic education brings many people is a life long contempt for the cult. However what it does do is separate children into racial and religious groupings. People in formed groups can develop visceral hatred of other groups whether they believe the religion or not – especially when those other groups have a markedly different appearance.

Many councils are already starting to try to tackle the legacy of multiculturalism and to try to mix children who have become separated by even regular state schools yet this is undercut by schools who can exclude on religious grounds.

It’s also divisive and dare I say racist. Suppose I want my child in the state school local to me. He cannot get in as he is the wrong religion. My choice of schools is compromised. Indeed you could argue in a small way we have a Jim Crow/Apartheid law here whereby state schools for different groupings may be considered separate but equal. Metaphorically the front of the education bus in my area might be for catholics and the back atheists and the middle Hindus, Jews and Muslims.

Some say to not allow religious schools is a denial of parental choice but clearly to allow them is a denial of parental choice on the grounds of religion which is normally known as bigotry.

What next Scientology schools? And if not why not? Is a revealed religion any less credible for being newer?

The only fair solution is for state schools to become almost all secular.

written by reaction \\ tags: Catholic Church, Cult, Faith Schools, Indoctrination, Multiculturalism, Religion, Scientology

The former Chancellor Alistair Darling today said that Labour’s lack of a credible plan to tackle the deficit cost them the election.

This undercuts two themes of Labour now who pretend that they have not ever been in Govt and have no 13 year track record of what they actually do. It removes the nonsense that cuts would not have been severe under Labour (Brown had guaranteed Darling would be Chancellor as the markets, Bank of England and populace would not stand for Balls or him in charge of what matters). It undermines the current view that our public and private debt is manageable.

The Labour supporting left need new clothes. My view is to come up with economics of how we can grow our economy and pay our way. For all the rhetoric no one seems able to answer a simple question “How can we grow our economy and close the Balance of Payments deficit that means we add £7Bn of external debt every month?”. Only George Osborne has raised this question, admittedly rhetorically, but as he said it makes no sense to borrow from China to pay China for goods.

The UK being outside the Euro does not have Germany to fund it and sell it goods as the Eurozone has – even then at some point does Germany own everyone else? China is doing this for the US for the foreseeable future. The UK has to pay its way at some point and whilst short term more growth may be preferable to a double dip of Osborne’s creation nonetheless long term we need more and will maybe not have the opportunity Brown had 10 years ago bequeathed by the maligned Major Clarke years to build public services and the UK economy.

Indeed aside from the Tories the only party who has a ‘positive’ view of the future is the Green’s. Whether their plans will work relies on whether we really can reduce Tax Evasion fundamentally. Certainly using credit checking agencies on the middle and upper classes might work better than on Dole frauds! Catch one generate millions. Catch a dole cheat and it costs as much as saved to do so.

Darling will of course get the full force of the one liners and Labour rhetoric but he’s probably one of the few whose opinions I accept as straight from the horses brain to mouth to me.

Something’s clearly wrong when we have 0.5% base rate and 3% plus inflation after a rapid deflation and the easy solutions of people standing for Labour leadership clearly make no sense.

written by reaction \\ tags: Balance of Payments, Cuts, Darling, Ed Balls, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, Green Party, John Major, Ken Clarke, Long Term, Rhetoric, Tax Evasion

There is a lot of talk of cuts but until we have a genuinely intelligent Govt cuts cannot be reversed. The point is that they can be reversed and indeed by removing the mindless vandalism and headline chasing of New Labour the public services could be built better.

What cannot be easily reversed is another 5 years of Tory abandonment of the environment. Predictably the  two greenest manifestos in UK mainstream political history will yield a new phalanx of coal powered greenhouse gas producers. This is not party political only fools who want to be Labour MPs believe there is a substantive difference in any terms bar rhetoric here.

No doubt new runway capacity will follow as businessmen whine that expecting them to be cost effective and video conference is insane. I mean it reduces highly paid executives to  granny and grandpa talking over Skype to their grand kids in another country.

Whilst no one event can be definitively labeled as a result of AGW (man made climate change to plebs like me). It must be hard to escape people’s notice that the news when not dominated by moronic coverage of Naomi Campbell and murders is drought and death in Russia, Floods in Pakistan and Floods in China. Even when it’s not the climate it was pollution in the Gulf of Mexico as The Obama Administration’s fight to increase US production of Oil to pollute the world with went wrong.

The likes of Ed Miliband are currently sucking up to everyone promising endless metaphorical summer but when he has a sniff of power will he be following through on his Green sloganed placards or listening to Big Oil again?

written by reaction \\ tags: Cuts, Drought, Ed Miliband, Floods, Obama Administration, Oil, Pakistan, Russia

David Cameron fresh from holding back the Gove-ian bats who wanted the blood or at least milk of the poor under 5s decided to get populist in a hurry. As with drug crime and just about everything else he picked an easy target and lumped lots of things together to try to create a significance. He said that 5.2Bn was wasted by errors and fraud in social welfare – with everyone putting the emphasis on the less relevant fraud of course. Most of this stemming from the tax credits fiasco – classic case of the Govt farming out difficult work to others to calculate, Big Society indeed.

Only £1 Bn is outright fraud even then I would question that after having  to re-sign on after a day trip to a racecourse because I was wrongly advised by the Job Centre – I could have filled in a holiday form prior and been OK. It occurred to me that I now counted as one of those who had been caught cheating. Of course I reclaimed from the next day and was added back to the numbers of sponging cheats defrauding the taxpayer!

The rest is mistakes on tax credits which split between half the mistake of Govt and half the claimants. However since tax credits go to poor and working parents such errors are hardly egregious and arguably are far better targeted than any benefit I can think of.

The moron Tory press proclaimed Call Me Dave  a £5 Bn scambuster!  As with their stories on immigrants they clearly want to create a climate of hate of a group so they can be kicked even harder – even if it means lying through their front pages, anger sells and pandering to prejudiced anger sells even more it seems. The fact is unemployed numbers minus vacancies is still a big number and British benefits are not enough to live off. Sure some claimants prop up the Black Economy but the effort to crack down and the righteousness of doing so is questionable. The clear agenda is not to cut fraud here but to cut benefits for the poorest people.

The saddest part is the Labour Left now out of power they automatically screech about the £40 Bn of Tax avoidance. Again whilst this is almost Green Party policy to close the deficit is this any more practical than Benefit fraud measures?  If so why didn’t Labour not deal with this in 13 wasted years if it’s so easy? In terms of revenue mind this should be what Cameron is considering whilst trying to cut the error rate at the Dept of Work and Pensions.

There’s no easy answers and reducing benefits will only further sap money out of the family and friends of the unemployed. It will make only a relatively miserable contribution to cutting the deficit. One hopes this is just PR to pander to the reactionary middle classes with an unspoken acceptance that there’s not a lot of money here. Yet with the naked contempt for the poor shown in the Education system this is doubtful and becoming a theme.

The poor will always take the worst of cuts but this demonising and eugenic targeting of them directly is frightening.

Thanks to Cathy Newman and the Channel 4 FactCheck team for the info on the make up of the £5 Bn or so.

written by reaction \\ tags: Cuts, David Cameron, Free Milk, Green Party, Michael Gove, Tax Avoidance, Tax Credits

The media and the idiots who spew bile (moi?) were out in force this week at Naomi Campbell who showed far too much respect for the ICC by pointing out the inconvenience of her testifying in a case she had no worthwhile evidence for. Indeed I assumed I was in hell in a snow storm this morning as I almost felt sympathy as the press desperately grab at things she might have done that were illegal – even though any laws she may or may not have broken were aimed at protecting de Beers monopoly and the concepts of Blood Diamonds was hardly currency in 1997.

Yet who was the villain? Charles Taylor of course. Who invited Taylor? Who was the only reason Campbell was there given she had no idea who Taylor was? Whose foundation was likely taking blood money and who knows maybe blood diamonds from Taylor? Why aren’t the media asking hard questions? Where’s Chris Hitchens when you need an iconoclast? The point is that the nuance of being a friend of the butcher Taylor and a much more knowing accomplish than Ms Campbell does not fit the pastiches of a Mandela the super hero who served 27 years for his cause.

Indeed like many leaders Mandela’s critics probably lie in South Africa’s own borders. Mandela’s  failure to offer poor South Africans improvements the buffoon Chavez has tried to with his country’s natural resources in terms of stuff like housing, clean water, doctors, education. Mandela’s South Africa instead agreed to the strictures of Globalised Capital the poor of all races remain the poor relatively and absolutely.

This is not to damn Mandela who did a formidable job and survived his incarceration without bitterness merely to say that it says nothing good about the media when a vacuous supermodel is the story for doing next to nothing except maybe believing the myth that one person is 100% good.

written by reaction \\ tags: Blood Diamonds, Blood Money, Charles Taylor, Globalisation, Naomi Campbell, Nelson Mandela

Even before cuts are announced the Labour Party is rushing in a fit of hypocrisy to attack them. They are apparently ideological. They are malicious. We do not even know specifically what they are yet but boy are they brutal. Now I don’t like the sound of them and putting VAT not income tax up was a poor start but Labour planned to use National Insurance an insidious tax favoured by Brown so he could trumpet income tax falls!

Labour’s credibility is undermined as despite having the purse strings and official projections it would not say what its cuts were albeit they were in the same ball park as the other two parties but delayed a year. A year delay that was probably a false hood as it referred to a piffling 6Bn which was really things we would no longer spend on rather than savings or cuts. Now when you listen to Labour you’d swear they would have cut nothing and the world would have smelled of roses – anyone fooled by that one assumes lived abroad for 13 years. They should be ignored. They have no policies only placard positions they will paint over and replace later. We may safely assume behind all those stupid pledges the cuts would not be a great deal different.

Nonetheless many Liberal Demorcrat voters like me and my ilk who are instinctual leftists are concerned that deep cuts will inevitably be landed on the poor. That is a given but it’s not like we can afford deep cuts on the poor here having been the first country in Western Europe to go for this kind of cutting 30 years ago. Already those of us on crowded buses know that they will just get more crowded as perverse pledges to keep giving unlimited free travel crowd out anyone dumb enough not to have a car. This is why many of us favour tackling the deficit with more tax as not just the only fair means but the only sensible means that will not reduce the already low quality of life modern British Capitalism offers – it’s a perversity to lecture the world and 13th century fiefdoms whilst creating your own serf society.

However without the deep factual detail of what the cuts will be and where they will fall it would be folly to be fully judgmental. Certainly we should take with a pinch of salt that a million people will be made homeless by changes to house benefit – albeit we should monitor such a policy closely.

Indeed I would argue the person most delighted with the brutal scare stories being spun at present is George Osborne. It’s an old political trick to promise a metaphorical knee in the groin only to settle for a punch in the guts and be grateful about it. He will know that his power declines the longer he is in power as vested interests and rhetoric are refined. No doubt he was cook a hoop when Tony Benn and the usual suspects patronisingly whined about the poor in a letter to the Guardian. He will be even more delighted that the odium is falling on the Govt’s partners not even the Tory party!

Other than the Green Party which proposed closing tax loopholes and getting a large chunk of what it said was a 100 Bn in avoided taxes  no party was actually against cuts – bar the nationalists whose countries have been reduced to enterprise free zones by transfer payments from the working class of England who pay for their extras and can be excused wanting that to continue.

The brutal reality for those who want to damn the Liberals as junior partners is this any election now will leave us with an English Conservative Party with free reign or a broken incompetent unreconstructed sloganising Labour Govt neither of which anyone sane could want.

To blame the Liberals before any real actual cuts and detail is jumping the gun. It’s not fed by anything other than Labour’s continuing slogan politicising. To expect the tail to wag the dog in coalition is ridiculous but equally I would expect the bottom line when it arrives to be somewhere north of what is currently being fear mongered something that suits Osborne and Labour perversely.

It’s also better to wait rather than have your messages trail off when real details emerge. Scaremongering now may make Labour supporters feel better about supporting the party of rendition, torture, wars, foundation hospitals killing 1000s, MRSA etc  but it hardly changes those facts – Labour supporters look blankly when you mention them and try to offset the thousands of lives against the minimum wage. Besides screaming now softens people up for deep cuts not as deep as those threatened or assumed.

We should also not ignore that so far our Lib Dem votes have brought greater liberty and justice to this country. Now they will have to deliver greater fairness in the cuts and taxation to tackle the deficit.

written by reaction \\ tags: Buses, Cuts, George Osborne, Scaremongering

So the International Criminal Court in a fit of trying to remind people it exists for more than locking up aging people from the Balkens has called as a witness a balding UK born model. Her testimony given her complete lack of credibility and rationality is a waste of time and this may safely be called a stunt by an increasingly irrelevant camp for aging failed dictators.

The only people on trial here generally speaking come from the losing side. Gaddafi is not there. Mugabe. Karzai. Blair. Brown. Straw. Shimon Peres. Livni. Saud. Ahmadinejad. Obama. Drone strike operators. An endless list of current villains whose behaviour is not changed one bit.

Indeed the USA does not even sign up to the ICC which is a flaw. Obama will talk to the Sauds without pushing human rights but will pimp jets and missiles. He will talk to Sri Lanka’s butchers on bended knees because of the threat of Chinese influence and strategic placement in the Indian Ocean. Consequently none of these is going before the ICC.

Calling Naomi Campbell is a coup for the ICC as it trumps other reality shows as Campbell is not yet desperate enough for a 100 grand. I am sure that will come and wager she lasts less than a week on whatever Reality Show she ends up on. It merely goes to show the ICC is nothing to do with the reality of justice just attention seeking buffoonery.

written by reaction \\ tags: Barack Obama, ICC, Naomi Campbell, Reality TV