The Prime Minister appeared to distance himself from the imperial past when he suggested that Britain was to blame for decades of tension and several wars over the disputed territory [Kashmir], as well as other global conflicts.
Boot-licking: A. History: D. Yes, we are to a certain extent historically involved way back but… The drive to partition India came mainly from the likes of Jinnah. An essay on C20th Indian sub-continent history by Monday Master Cameron or you’re no longer head prefect.
Tristram Hunt, the Labour MP, historian and former television presenter, said: “To say that Britain is a cause of many of the world’s ills is naïve. To look back 50-odd years for the problems facing many post-colonial nations adds little to the understanding of the problems they face.
Quite. And let’s listen to Tristram Hunt (not least because he must have been bullied something chronic at school) when he perhaps nails it…
“David Cameron has a tendency to go to countries around the world and tell them what they want to hear, whether it is in Israel, Turkey, India and Pakistan.”
Quelle surprise! He’s made a career of doing it hree as well. Recall he worked in the media before politics…
Mr Cameron was in Pakistan to make amends for any offence he caused last year by accusing the country of “exporting” terrorism.
Well, it does, doesn’t it? But we can’t say that because being “offended” is much worse than being “blown-up”. You can after all bury the remaining body parts after the later event.
On a visit to India last year, Mr Cameron was criticised when he said Britain should approach its former imperial possession “in a spirit of humility”.
Ah Hell! Shouldn’t the leaders of great nations (and Britain) meet as equals? Wouldn’t that be more dignified for both parties? I mean we both have vibrant economies, aircraft carriers and space programs…
We are tripling aid to Pakistan for schools - that’s GBP600m. Note: it might be easy to observe this is as a form of dhimmigelt and there is certainly truth in this - the Tories themselves have justified defence cuts by aid increases but there is another way of looking at it. Given Mr Cameron’s patrician roots is this not perhaps a deranged post-modern incarnation of the “white man’s burden”?
It’s what I’ve come to expect from the pinbrained, quisling cunt.
“It’s all my fault, everything I do is wrong” is a reasonable enough strategy for dealing with her indoors, but as a foreign policy? Not so much.
But But… iDave is CLEVER, very clever, the MSM keep telling us that! First class education, top class honours…
Erm, para 14 of this may be of interest to our Ian B…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8430760/Cameron-in-Pakistan-Sorry-but-its-not-right-to-apologise.html
Well we all know round here that iDave is Bair 2, and like Blair wasn’t Labour, neither is iDave a Tory. What the hell they think they are is anybody’s guess, but what I think they are, are people who actively despise the country they perport to “lead”, and don’t care how much they destroy its very fabric and sense of history, so long as it leads to their imagined Ellysian fields uplands.
Just like Barry over in Yankland. Barry despises his own people (who he has never actually met or mingled with by the way) he wishes the majority of them to shrivel up and die, or turn into Europeans (he knows fuck all about Europeans either).
We are governed by fuckwits, who we are told are clever. They are not. They are very privileged, removed from reality and responsibility, self regarding assholes, who believe they will bring Utopia, but will only bring misery, destruction and death.
Let’s see what happens to them when the lights of our digital run world go out inside 5 years.
Dave continues to disappoint. The recent slam on the brakes on NHS reforms makes it abundantly clear that he is a follower and not a leader. Very weak. I won’t bother voting next time, it just encourages the bastards.
Cameron is even more pathetic than anticipated.
The only thing that we should remotely apologise for is the Labour party. They gave the natives independence in the first place, which should never even have been countenanced by a decent government.
As for comparing us with India, Nick, an aircraft carrier is not an aircraft carrier if it has no aircraft to carry. Additionally, at least India’s space program does not rely entirely upon a private business project of a US-based subsidiary of a company registered in the Cayman Islands.
“[A]n aircraft carrier is not an aircraft carrier if it has no aircraft to carry.”
Well, that’s a nice existential question. Is a passenger train not a passenger train if it is empty of passengers? Does a Coke can cease being a Coke can after you drink all the Coke? What does it become? Inquiring minds want to know!
I made the mistake of listening to BBC Radio 4 on Saturday morning (whilst working - never listen to a speech network especially not a pathetic speech network) and……
A discussion about the Ivory Coast was on, the present horrors were blamed on”colonialism”.
There was no reasoned attack upon French government of the area before 1960, or even that it had been a French (not a British) colony.
Nor was there any understanding that the place had been tolerably governed by the pro Western President Houphouet-Boigny before the “reformers” took over some years ago (last time I checked one “reformer” was still in his bunker, and the U.N. backed “reformer” held most of the capital city).
One women stated that she knew nothing about imperialists in history (this admission of ignorance was stated as if it was something to be proud of), but then proceeded to slag them off anyway.
They “must have beenm” so “greedy” power mad and so on.
The BBC person in charge of the show agreed.
What do these subhuman scum (the description is not too strong) on BBC shows know about men like Lugard (the main British “imperialist” in both East and West Africa)?
They know sweet Fanny Adams about such people - but that does not stop them being given a platform to “educate and inform” the populations with their ignorance.