Tuesday 3rd November
Bit of a mishmash today.
Firstly, David Cameron has
received a bit of a setback to his plan to bomb Syria. The Foreign Affairs
Select Committee has released a report on the issue which has come up with the
controversial position that if you are going to drop explosives onto a foreign
country then you really should know what your objective actually is. Bomber
Harris would be turning in his grave.
Furthermore, the Committee raises
questions about the legality of any military involvement. So the plans are
possibly illegal and probably going to make things worse than: a combination
which is known in Committee circles as “the Iraq diagnosis.”
Secondly, wounded-weasel and
stunt double for an Imperial officer in Star
Wars, George Osborne, has been in Germany doing some light-diplomacy and
going out for an Italian. He’s so continental. We still have no idea which way
he’s going to campaign in the EU referendum. If only there was some kind of
clue.
Finally, there is the news that
Jeremy Corbyn will not be addressing the CBI, thereby missing a chance to make
his case to business leaders. Presumably that’s due to one of those prior
commitments he so often has. A Republican rally perhaps? Or maybe the Stop the
War coalition is having a smoothie night to celebrate the Foreign Affairs
Select Committee’s report?
In fairness, Cameron doesn’t address
the TUC Conference, but that’s probably for the best. Let me put it this way:
you can’t imagine Corbyn getting literally lynched at the CBI, whereas the PM
would probably be turned into porcine feed so that a pig might actually enjoy
having bits of Cameron put into its mouth.
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