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On Friday, 24th April, Ed Miliband spoke on Foreign Policy at Chatham House. He spoke of the result of Cameron's and his government's paralysis that the UK was losing influence around the world and that through lack of planning for post military support, Libya was close to becoming a failed state.
- He argued that Labour would re-engage with the international institutions, including the EU. He empasised Cameron's retreat from global leadership, which started on day 1, when he defined British interests solely as trade interests and a narrrow amoral view he has carried on throughout the administration as he seeks to appease UKIP and his own right wing. Here's the Guardian on the speech,
Ed Miliband: small-minded isolationism has damaged British influenceEd Miliband will today say that the small-minded isolationism of David Cameron has led to the most substantial loss of British influence abroad in a generation. In a foreign policy speech, the Labour leader will say Britain's capacity to navigate global turbulence is being undermined by a short-sighted and inward-looking foreign policy.- And Labour List provide us with the complete text
Full text of Ed Miliband's foreign policy speech at Chatham House | LabourList
It is a great privilege to be here today. Chatham House has always led the way in shaping new thinking on Britain's place in the world. So with the general election less than two weeks away now, there is no better place to come to set out my case.- The Telegraph doing the bidding of its owners and the Tory party examine the speech with a microscope to give us the following headline, "Outrageous Miliband accuses Cameron for migrant deaths"
Election 2015: Ed Miliband says David Cameron to blame for migrant deaths - as it happenedAppearing on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Ed Miliband was challenged over his failure to ask David Cameron about Libya at Prime Minister's Questions for four years. He insisted he had raised the issue recently outside of PMQs but refused to say how many Libyan migrants Labour would take in, saying he was not going to "pluck figures out of the air".- which is repeated by the BBC. "If the cap fits..", I say.
Ed Miliband: UK failures 'contributed to Libya crisis' - BBC NewsEd Miliband has accused David Cameron and other world leaders of failing to stand by Libya, contributing in part to the crisis in the Mediterranean. The Labour leader said the UK had repeated the same mistakes "in post-conflict planning" for Libya as were made in Iraq and the current refugee situation should have been anticipated.- Once again Ed stands firm! Hell Yes!
Miliband stands by claim over UK contribution to migrant deathsEd Miliband has insisted that the people smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean are to blame for the mass drownings in recent weeks - but refused to back down from his claim that inadequate postwar planning in Libya contributed to the crisis.- and Alistair Campbell skewers the Tory spokesman and Lynton Crosby, who is proving for the second time, that he doesn't really get Britain.
- Cameron with another panic move, Miliband on foreign policy, this is not the crossover Crosby predicted!Posted on 24 April 2015 | 5:04am So as to what utter calamity Ed Miliband would unleash upon us if he became Prime Minister, you can take your pick from the increasingly desperate right wing papers and the increasingly desperate right wing 'campaign' of David Cameron and Lynton Crosby.
- One area where this gets serious and partisan, and maybe why the Tories were so quick to react is pointed out by Tim at Zelo Street, with an article attacking Kate Hopkins' pieces on the mediterranean boat people. To keep it short, she doesn't care and used the word "Cockroaches". As we can see from the illustration, she's a mate of Dave,
Zelo Street: Katie Hopkins - You're A LiarAfter a Twitter silence for all of four days, and to the dismay of all those who wished it might have become permanent, Katie Hopkins has returned, mouth motoring along, to continue demonising anyone who might vote for the rotten lefties, and to try desperately to explain away the severely adverse reaction to her last Sun column.- Her opinions have been opposed, by many including one of the fastest growing petitions ever on change.org, aimed of course at the Sun, for whom she writes. (The Sun's material, thankfully in this case, is behind a paywall.) The Sun has form on truth telling and employing criminals.
The Sun Newspaper: Remove Katie Hopkins as a ColumnistKatie Hopkins' malicious words were once more published in The Sun newspaper on the 17th April in an article on Mediterranean migrants, following the sinking of a migrant vessel on the 12th of April which saw 400 people drown.- The affair though is so serious that the UN Commissioner on Human Rights, wades in criticising both Hopkins for using the language of genocide, the Sun for publishing her, and the Mail for wishing it had. I made that bit up, but Mr Al Hussein did criticise the whole of the British tabloid press in particular for ignoring article 20, the freedom from hate. Here's his press release,
- Here's the statement,
- DisplayNewsGENEVA (24 April 2015) - After decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion, and in the wake of a recent article in the Sun newspaper calling migrants "cockroaches," the UN Human Rights Chief on Friday urged the U.K.
- Maybe I should have left it at Ed stands by what he says, the crisis in the med, is the result of bad actions taken by bad people but Britain's soulless, rudderless foreign policy has contributed to the word in which it happens. Britain can do better than this.
- One note, when looking for a picture to act as my headline background, I found it really difficult to find a usable picture of the event itself, all of them have Ed speaking with his mouth open, which you would expect, but you'd think that some one would use good pictures, but I couldn't find them. So this is a picture I found and used on my wiki to decorate an article on machine translation. I hope it illustrates the multilateralism that Ed tries to speak to, Anyway better than pictures of Ed taken by Murdoch's press and better politically than a gunboat.
