Mr David Cameron on his visit to Pakistan (emphasis added):
I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place.
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Sweet spirits of nitre! I bloody well hope that Mr Cameron has misspoken and apologises immediately; because if he didn't, I want him to resign like a gentleman for having insulted his country abroad. Who does this pipsqueak think he is? More to the point, who does he think we are? Does he truly have such a low opinion of Britain? If so, why the blazes did he seek office–any office–in the first place? If this is what he believes, then I can only conclude that he never entered politics to serve either the people or his queen, but merely to fulfill his own selfish ambitions.
The frightening thing, and I mean truly frightening, is that among the political class we have no other choice except the traitorous and the deranged.
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Cameron increasingly looks like he only belongs at No. 10 if it's in an episode of "Yes, Prime Minister".
As for Hunt from Labour saying that the problems in the Indian Subcontinent, etc., are not Britain's fault, that's certainly a stunning reversal from Labour, who have spent the last three-quarters of a century blaming all the world's ills on the UK and the United States, either in turn or together. I'd have expected him to agree with Cameron- well, except that Labour always takes a contrary position to everybody else on general principles. (I've long wondered what would happen if a Conservative PM should issue a statement to the effect that eating peas was good for you, betting that Labour would insist on green beans instead.)
John Kerry once said that "the entire spectrum of political thought in Europe would fit comfortably inside the Democratic Party". Well, he was right; like the Dems, the lot of them are idiots. Especially, and regrettably, in Britain.
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Does Mr. Cameron golf? He should get together with our idiot. Who, I hope, will be quite free to work on his swing after January 2013.
He's right, though. Upon leaving India the British took the cowards' way out and agreed to a partition, instead of insisting that the people of India work out a system they could all live with. The result: Pakistan, a nation founded on religious bigotry and self-pity. You couldn't ask for a better breeding ground for extremism and terrorism.
Trismegistus,
A fair point, were Mr Cameron a private citizen, but he is not. He is also wrong. Were he talking about partition, the boy prime minister may have an argument, though an exceedingly poor one. The fault doesn't lie with Britain, but with the ideological blinkers of Mr Clement Atlee, who gave India full independence right off the bat rather than dominion status without partition, which would have avoided this grief and keep the British Commonwealth a strong alliance under the Crown.
At any rate, the bloodshed and misery in Pakistan is not Britain's fault. We drew up the line of partition and both Pakistan and India agreed with it. Both demanded full independence and they got it. After that, they were on their own and FULLY responsible for any evil that they did. They made their beds and all that.
My real argument is with Mr Cameron's choice of the word "world's". I'm sorry, but this is the reality, not an undergraduate's common room. The Empire wasn't perfect, but it was on balance the most benign example in history that spread, to be blunt, civilisation to backward world and imposed a Pax Britannica that lasted for what was perhaps the happiest century this poor old globe ever knew.
Mr Cameron is entitled to his opinion, but he is prime minister and it behooves him not to foul mouth his own country in another land. If he wishes to do so, the let him resign so that he cannot appear to be speaking ex officio.
Please!
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