This EU-approved banana is really thin, isn't it?
In what I can only assume is an attempt to boost his profile for a forthcoming leadership contest, the man most famous for advertising bananas has decided to take us to war, not with one country, but with two!
Not content with getting Iran to threaten to punch us in the mouth, he’s now gone and picked a fight with China. China!
Now, normally a bit of light war is a great vote-winner, just ask Thatcher. It’s especially good if you’re not hugely dependent on the country you’re fighting. But while we might be able to source our steaks from somewhere other than Argentina, it’s a lot more difficult for us to survive without China as a trading partner (in both directions) and owner of British public debt. China wouldn’t even have to fire up a single jet to crush us: simply dropping all they own of our debt onto the open market would render Britain unable to finance a whelk stall, let alone a war with a major superpower.
While his self-aggrandising battle with imams might play well in the coffee houses of Teheran, I think most people in the UK are already unhappy with the number of fights that this government has picked with dusky foreigners who think that the death of a martyr is a good way to go.
And this completely ignores the fact that the British public are weary of pointless wars instigated at the behest of tin-pot madmen, especially when these wars in far-away lands are used to justify attacks on us.
If I may be so very humble as to offer a small observation, David: this isn’t going to end well for you. It’s probably better if you shut up now, before anyone actually gets hurt.
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David Miliband wouldn’t last ten seconds with Mick McManus
Having read many of Ralph’s books and pamphlets, I could imagine him taking a good thick slipper to his son’s nasty little oik impressions……….bet he’s turning in his grave…..didn’t like Ralph either though and he wrote crap!
The Banana Foreign Secretary for the Banana Republic – how appropriate.
God, the man’s such a political lightweight it’s embarrassing. If he’s the next Labour leader the Tories are going to be in power for at least a decade.
This is what happens when a monocular idiot sends a boy to do a man’s job….with a bit of luck the Chinese will see the funny side and wait until after June before discussing anything important with us.
He’s not going to be the next leader – Balls has his eye on that job, and will elbow Miliband out of the way and trample over the still twitching body for it…
In fact, I wonder if he put the Safety Elephant up to this?
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/12/charles-clarke-being-helpful-again.html
And Anna is quite right too. As the two readers of the Libertarian Alliance Blog both know, I have never failed to support people like Blair when they went to war in Iraq, which was the only honest and conviction-based act he committed. The trouble with National-Socialist-governments, like New Labour, is that they need to pick wars and confrontations up like badges, to show how important they are: just look at Hitler for one example in only the previous few seconds of Earth’s history.
China can destroy Brown’s position in an instant. It probably won’t, providing that this evil outfit that purports to govern us shifts target as quickly as possible to somebody else.
Are we then only to pick fights with those who are poor and without power?
Sorry, had to say that. I am a great Sinophile (they’re bright, hardworking and probably the best ethnicity we’ve ever imported) but they are annexing Africa, and their ability to roll tanks over people is a tad concerning.
However, they can come and roll their tanks over David Military-Band the Chocolate soldier any time they like. When Tony Blair calls a man ‘my Wayne Rooney’, you know you are in the presence of somebody with no intellectual relevance, wit or antennae – and so it has proved. Ribbentrop was a better foreign secretary than this silly little man.
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On the plus side; neither banana-boy nor any of the other labour “Statespersons” will be able to mix freely in polite society. The populace have been so abused by these clowns that there is an unquantifiable number of people anxious to introduce them to Mr Brick.
They all need to be very careful with their arrangements.
Jago, I’m afraid that there are more than enough people who will be sufficiently impressed with the idea of a former minister of the crown to forgive their incompetencies and peccadilloes.
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