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some odds and sods

nice to see that although we have persuaded libya to give up its wmd programme - that tony blair and a few others are rushing to supply him (well sell him at a fat profit) conventional weapons. i would have thought it would have been better not to sell him any weapons at all, but there you go.
one of the reasons that the weapons are being justified (aside from the money it will rake in for a few) is that libya has a problem with refugees (and with luck i am sure the rest of europe is hoping that libya will stop "undesirables" "flooding" into europe!)
you wouldn't mind this but amnesty have just slammed libya for human rights violations...... (here)

oh look here is jack straw.
and look whose hand he is shaking....
yup jack straw shook the hand of robert mugabe (here) i love the fact he says there are serious disagreements between zimbabwe and the uk, but no need to be rude.
jack in case you hadn't noticed the man is a dictator and a pretty nasty one at that.
oddly we are in iraq at the moment after just having gotten rid of one there. couldn't be because there is a lot of oil in iraq and not much at all in zimbabwe ?
we are also about to send a cricket team out to zimbabwe - i think most of the players are keen to go as they are sure to get their win bonuses. but it's time to realise that sometimes you just have to say - no no no you just can't go and do this as it legitmates the regime you are visiting.
and anyone who says sport and politics should be kept apart, is right in theory, but in practice we know the two things are joined together at the hip. but it's ok mugabe will not use the tour in a political way what so ever.

my favourite tory - boris johnson - has started a blog on his website. he really should be in charge of them. at least they would at least be a bit more human.
there are also links to other politicians who have blogs there - i shall have to check them out.
hey they can't be worse than this !
sadly though boris doesn't give us his version of the TTT list (top tory totty).