The grim news from Gaddaffi’s regime is not a surprise. The current squirming and wriggling from William Hague fits our role as a wise-monkey friend of Libya to a T.
‘Sell us your oil, let us explore your desert to find more and we will not look too closely at the way you run your country. We will also help you with crowd control equipment and tear gas cannisters. We will help train your secret police and we will not ask awkward questions about people being locked up without trial. When everything kicks off we will utter platitudes and gentle criticism knowing as we do so that it is a charade. We may even let you know via diplomatic channels that it is a charade.....Since Wikileaks we have to be a bit more careful.’
Hague follows on from the loathsome Tony Blair, David Miliband and Jack Straw, politicians who never knowingly let principles get in the way of profit.
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