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

----- Original Message -----

From: info@new.labour.org.uk

To: paintmonkey

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