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May 27, 2012 10:23 am

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  • Just_Another_Voter

    Who paid for this publicity tour? I hope it came from Labour or union funds.
    It is not an election year so the leader of the opposition has no business going to an area he has absolutely  no control over and will not do so in the near future.

    • Brumanuensis

      So the leader of the opposition should ignore the armed forces while in opposition?

      That’s a novel approach, I’ll admit.

      • Just_Another_Voter

        This was just a publicity tour to stroke his ego.
        He can go to any barracks to learn about the forces.
        And as an ex soldier (a few years ago now(cold war and NI)) I can say that Labour have never cared about the forces.

        • AlanGiles

          Did Liam  Fox and David Cameron, when they were in opposition visit for the same selfish reasons, in your opinion?. Perhaps Dr. Fox just looked on it as an awayday with Adam Werrity?

          * Trevor Tompkins (1941 –   )

          • Just_Another_Voter

             Yes, if it was not an election year.

        • Brumanuensis

          Afghanistan is the UK’s most significant military deployment at present. If Ed Miliband wants to visit the armed forces, it’s difficult for him not to go there. 

          • treborc1

            he is leader of the opposition and he has a right and duty to visit our troops.

            It was a sad day to day for the Welsh battalion with another soldier killed.

          • Brumanuensis

            A very sad day, I agree. I hope they all come home alive soon.

        • treborc1

          I’m sure it gives the troops a lift to see the leaders  arriving, we always enjoyed  getting a visit from somebody important.

  • leslie48

    Just on Foreign Policy Labour’s failure to  condemn the massacres of children and others in Syria remains deeply disturbing; as a large European political party our silence is deafening – these are our brothers and sisters fighting a ghastly regime in this part of the Arabic Spring. I can overlook the UK  religious peoples  indifference as that’s their typical spiritual isolationism but ours in the Labour movement never was and never should be isolationism. We are or were moral leaders not quivering cowards. 

    • Brumanuensis
      • leslie48

        My apologies and good to see this information from Labour.org.uk; However I still feel that say compared to French Socialists or both American political parties or our own Foreign Secretary our response to the horrors of Syria  has been over the months rather limited in tone. I would have expected more from the UK Labour movement. 

        • Brumanuensis

          There’s not much we can do. We haven’t a substantially-different view from the government and I doubt we have much influence internationally anyway. What do you propose?

          • leslie48

            Half a million people had signed this petition by 8:00 AM this morning  http//www.avaaz.org/en/syria_will_the world_look_away_c/?vl

          • Brumanuensis

            Moniters? Is that a euphemism for military intervention?

  • Doc!!!

    Looks like ross from Freinds 

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