Boris Johnson calls for demonstrations outside Russian embassy
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The
hypocrisy of conservative politicians, especially now of Boris
Johnson, is breathtaking.
Foreign
Secretary Boris Johnson said he would “like to see demonstrations
outside the Russian embassy” he also asks 'Where is the Stop the
War coalition?"
It
seems that demonstrations and those who take part in them are only
acceptable when the object of the demo is one which the Tory party
agree with and actually promote (an event so rare as to be almost a
myth). At all other times, demonstrations are just politically
motivated bandwagons (as per Oliver Letwin) organised by extremists
and left wing militants (as per any conservative politician you may
choose to ask) and are always attended by "Rent a Mob".
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Tories
were not interested, and were quick to condemn demonstrations by
millions of people against the Poll Tax, or the preparations for the
Iraq wars, or the invasion of Afghanistan, or the intervention in
Libya, or the increases in University fees or a hundred and one other
demo's which opposed government policies.
"Rent
a Mob" only has respectability when the government of the day
seeks to shroud their shabby hypocrisy with a veneer of credibility.
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While
on the subject of Conservative Party hypocrisy, consider for a
moment, the latest hypocrite to crawl out of the woodwork of
conservative central office. I refer of course to Andrew Mitchell, MP
for Sutton Coldfield who has thrown his weight behind Boris Johnson
and his calls for prosecutions and anti Russian demonstrations.
However, the hypocrisy pours out of Mitchell when he vigorously
supports Saudi Arabia and others, bombing civilians in Yemen, using
British manufactured and supplied weapons, in their barbaric
targeting of "rebels" in Sana'a
and
other "rebel" held areas.
It
is clearly obvious that it is a war crime to target and bomb "rebels"
when
such "rebels" are attacked by Russian or Syrian forces,
and yet it is perfectly acceptable to attack "rebels" when
they are the as defined by the United States, United Kingdom Saudi
Arabia etc
as "bad rebels".
That
is a fundamental problem when becoming engaged in another countries
civil war. When so many different warring factions are involved, as
in Syria, it is impossible to know which faction or factions to
support. In Yemen supporting the Saudi Arabian led coalition with
arms and logistical support is an indefensible policy which is
blatantly more to do with making the arms manufactures and dealers
even richer, that with resolving the conflict.
The
fighting goes on, the humanitarian crisis grows worse as civilians
are killed and hypocrisy reigns supreme in Westminster.
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