Friday, July 28, 2006

Response (and counter response) from Ben Nicol at Labour Party HQ

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Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: The Labour Party has lost my Vote.




Thank you for your email about the Middle East Crisis.

When questioned about this the Prime Minister responded by saying:

"If we want to bring this situation into a better place, the only way we are going to do so is to be able to bring about the conditions in which a cessation of hostilities occurs. Everyone wants it to stop now, of course we do, you can see the terrible tragic loss of life that is happening. It's an appalling situation and a dangerous situation for the whole of the region, for the whole of the world. But unless there is some negotiated process then we are not going to be able to get a cessation of hostilities, and so the issue is how we manage to bring that about, and that is something I am discussing, as you can see, with close allies."

For more information you can visit the Foreign and Commonwealth office website at: www.fco.gov.uk

Thank you once again for your email.


Regards,


Ben Nicol
Membership & Communications Unit
The Labour Party


Labour - the work goes on

(Friday 28th July 2006 10.21 am)

Dear Mr Nicol,
Thankyou for your quick (automated?) reply.
With reference to the statement by the Prime Minister ('s speech writer) regarding the Middle East Crisis, can i say that i expected nothing more than a vague and non-committal statement. It is what we have come to expect and it is what we are delivered time after time.
These pratonising vacuous statements on International Affairs are shallow and meaningless, only serving to fill in the spaces between the directives and decisions which ultimately come from the Neo-Conservatives in Washington. I guess we'll have to wait and see what President Bush wants to do before any action is actually taken, that is afterall why the Prime minister is in the US at this moment, is it not?
How the Labour party can, in all good conscience, support Tony Blair's premiership, is beyond me.
Regards
Daren Higham


Thursday, July 27, 2006

Open Letter to Tony Blair. A Coward at number 10.

Dear Mr Blair,
This is now the second time in a week that i have felt it necessary to write to you through sincere concern .
Your cowardice in failing to act or show solidarity with the innocent people of The Lebanon will be the legacy of your premiership. The blood of the Lebanese people are already on your hands, Mr Blair. You now have the blood of unarmed UN observers on your hands too. Israel's deliberate attack on the UN observers is totally unacceptable. At worst it is an act of war against the rest of the world, at best it is gross incompetance by the Israeli miltary. You could have stopped this attrocity from happening. And now with your inaction the Israeli government has said;
"We received yesterday at the Rome conference permission from the world... to continue the operation," Justice Minister Haim Ramon has said.
They do not have my permission Prime Minister, and from what i understand they do not have the permission of all but the leadership of The United States and The United Kingdom.
Am i wrong in my understanding of what Democracy means? Do you actually think that you are representing the will of the public which voted for you? Because i can tell you that from where i sit, you most certainly are not.
Your actions seem to be increasingly dictated by the will of a handful of Neo-Conservatives in Washington (whose power was aquired by highly dubious means in the first place) who clearly have their own agenda, which concerns us deeply.
We, in the UK, are lucky enough to have a powerful sway over international politics, but you seem to consistently pass that responsibility over to a handful of war-mongers in Washington. You are undermining centuries of our political evolution and leading us all into a complicated conflict which no-one can win. Have you forgotten which political party you yourself are a member of and what that party stands for? Have you forgotten where your responsibilities lie? Have you forgotten what it means to be British?
Clearly you have.
You are incompetent and I call for your resignation Mr Blair, you no longer have my confidence as our Premier and i will do what i can to encourage others to say the same.

Yours Sincerely,

Daren Higham
Someone you represent.

Please click the title of this blog, it will take you to the contact page of Number 10 Downing Street, where you can leave your own message. I urge you to make yourself be heard. We live in a Democracy and we are dangerously close to losing that honour.

Friday, July 21, 2006

solidarity, legality, equality. as the french say.

We went to war with Iraq for much less.

Israel does have WMDs, they are certainly guilty of War Crimes (previous to these latest attrocities) and they consistently demonstrate a disproportionate use of force against the minorities within their own state.
For a nation of people who still use the Genocide as an excuse to ignore international opinion, they're remarkably similar to the Nazi's and Soviets in their aggression and oppression of their neighbours. It makes me wonder...
I'm ashamed of my government for effectively supporting Israel.
Call for an immediate cease-fire Mr Blair, put peace keeping troops on the ground between Israel, Lebanon and Syria...DO something.
Stand up and be counted for once, or are you too afraid of upsetting The Chimpanzee In The White House?
This conflict has the potential to drag everyone into a war that no-one will win. Or is that the point i wonder?
If Syria legitimately defend their borders, Iran will begin to mobilise her troops and that will be all the excuse that the Chimp In The WhiteHouse needs to attack.
i hope i'm wrong and God help us all.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

from then.

Through the fog of introspective anxiety, its easy to become all consumed by our own self pity. Easy to miss the fact that we have it better than most people. Easy to miss the fact that we have an easy life.
Get over it. Pull yourself together. And get on with it. We are lucky enough to live in a world where we can make our own choices. Where we are now, is where we chose to be.

I'm so very tired of people using 'depression' as an excuse for being rude.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Faith, Logc and Departure 2

...so i was thinking, if i turn left it will bring me back upon myself, and i'll have to go around the whole block again but if i turn right, i'll probably fall over.
So i should turn right this time...yeah?

Being Daren Robert Higham

In here behind the Monkey outside, we are safe, scared, in control and alone.

You may be filling in your tax return, focusing on every balanced number, defining yourself with every correct decision. You may be playing your guitar too
god damn loud, to drown out the feelings of inadaquacy you carry, or maybe you are suggesting that people pick up their own rubbish. Good for you.
In one way or another, we all paint our own landscapes.

AngelFish Under Siege

Angel Fish, quite unlike their name suggests, are not that Angelic.
These 6 probably need to be usefully depressed.

too much time...2


hmm..
..Since the redundancy, i have had significantly more time on my hands to waste.
More time to look and listen, more time to think.
More time to make plans.
When i looked at my watch again, a season had come and gone.
It is very easy to get stuck in a moment (there's a song in there somewhere), stuck in an unresolved conversation from 18 months ago, stuck in the numb rejection of an old and dead relationship, stuck in the mud of somebody else's guilt ridden nightmare. All the time making plans and dreaming of how we'd like things to be 'one day'.
John Lennon said; "...life is what happen's whilst you're busy making other plans...", how very true.