Quote of the BLOODY year!

A Palestinian Authority spokesman has lashed out at the Iranian president who criticized Palestinian negotiations with Israel and PA President Mahmoud Abbas:

"The one who does not represent the Iranian people, who falsified election results, who oppressed the Iranian people and stole authority has no right to speak about Palestine, its president or its representatives" 

-Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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And there we were thinking Labour supported the NHS

Andy Burnham, shadow secretary for Health, was photographed making a surprise change in Labour health policy yesterday:

Don't join the army if you don't want to fight

Tony Blair today announced that all the profits from his upcoming memoirs 'A Journey' are to be donated to the Royal British Legion, a fine act of selflessness you might think.

But this is Tony Blair of course, a man damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. A man who, support him or not, undoubtedly changed the face of modern Britain (I would argue for the good, and I'm not exactly a raving Labourite).

A spokesman said Mr Blair would hand over the reported £4.6m advance payment plus all royalties to honour "their courage and sacrifice", an act which the legion said would make a "lasting difference".

Yet still, we continue to hear the same old tripe about "war crimes", "blood on his hands" and all this crap from ignorant, uninformed and hypocritical sources. I for one am sick to death of hearing "ex-servicemen" or "relatives of servicemen" coming out the woodwork and attacking Blair personally for sending the army to Iraq. I'm sorry, but you don't join the army to choose where you go. You don't join the army to sit around and be paid to do nothing. You join the army, out of choice, to fight for your country, to put your life on the line to protect the interests of the United Kingdom abroad and ultimately to follow orders from those elected representative with the wisdom, knowledge and intelligence.

I don't know what these people thought they were getting themselves into when they joined the army, but I'm pretty sure making political judgements certainly isn't one of them.

Peter Brierley, whose son Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley was killed in Iraq 2003, told the BBC News Channel:

"This gift, or donation doesn't alter my aim that one day we will see Tony Blair in court for the crimes he committed."

If Mr Brierley would care to list these crimes with supporting evidence; mens rea, actus reus and the like, then I am more than happy to hear them. But the fact is it's nothing more than a load of bollocks and it shouldn't be given equal airtime. To make such uninformed, tragically ignorant comments is to tarnish the memory and reputation of those who have fallen fighting for our country and of an army which I am proud to call the best army in the world.

Learning the art of Iranian diplomacy

"England has nothing.  They are a bunch of thick people ruled by a Mafia.  The young lad in charge now is even more stupid than his predecessor."

Interesting comments there from Mohammad Reza Rahimi, first Vice President of Iran, a nation which has this week come under fire for torturing a woman into confessing to her husband's murder and as a resulted was sentenced to death by stoning.

I'm not sure if the Vice President is judging his entire assessment of the English people just on Jeremy Kyle, but what seems 'stupid' to me is using a pretext of 'religion' to justify a brutal, justice-void rule of law which subscribes 99 public lashes for two unrelated males who sleep "unnecessarily" under the same blanket – even without any sexual contact, and even worse, public lashings for young boys who have been raped but whom a religious court have decided "enjoyed" the experience.

But maybe that's just me.

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This is a political blog and I am the Political Whore.

I blog about politics.
In particular, British politics.
Because I am British.
And I'm a Political Whore:

Political Whore.
noun.

The kind of arsehole you find in your Modern Studies class who is purposely there to piss you off. The kind that argues just so his views seem superior, the kind that makes up figures just so he looks cool... even tho we know he's a douche bag.

Symptoms include:
Middle Class Syndrome;
Ignorance;
Arrogance;
General Retardedness.