No-fly zones? Oh, grow up Mr Cameron

By Peter Hitchens
Last updated at 10:34 AM on 7th March 2011

The main threat to this country’s liberty, independence and prosperity comes from the European Union.

Almost every week, some pitiful ‘Minister’ confesses that he is powerless against a decree from this grey, bland Empire across the Sea.

The latest is the one which says we must now pay full welfare benefits to 100,000 European migrants, who we must also allow to live and work here, because we no longer control our own borders.

Childish behaviour: David Cameron, pictured yesterday, is thoughtless about Libya

Any genuine patriot in politics would devote his every effort to extracting us from the EU.
Joining it was the gravest mistake made by any British Government in at least four centuries. Leaving it should be the heart of our foreign policy.

So it is pathetic and contemptible for our collaborationist national leaders to pretend to be patriots by ordering planes, tanks and ships – and men – into foreign parts. Haven’t they sentenced enough soldiers to death already in the futile adventure of Afghanistan?
They are posing as brave when their decisions force others to be brave, and in many cases be dead or severely maimed for life. They are posing as virtuous when they are merely trying to cover up for their weakness and failure in other matters.

I have little time for Mr David Cameron. I told you all, correctly, that he was a Left-wing liberal who would let you down. 

 

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If you aren’t yet sorry you voted for his useless party, you soon will be.

 But I had thought that he was at least grown-up, unlike the absurd, Olympically ignorant Blair creature, who got a thrill from invading countries he couldn’t find on a map.

I was wrong.

 Mr Cameron’s Oxford degree and Etonian polish actually clothe a small boy in shorts who wants to play with jet fighters and seeks diplomatic advice from . . . Mr Blair.

One of the greatest if grimmest pleasures of my week was to hear the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, dismiss Mr Cameron’s fantasies about a no-fly-zone over Libya as ‘loose talk’.
What is all this morality in foreign policy? We sucked up to Colonel Gaddafi because our oil industry needs to be in Libya.

If Mr Cameron so loathes tyrants who slaughter their own people, then what was he doing in Peking, simpering at the Chinese leadership a few yards from the scene of one of the greatest massacres of modern times?

The current fashionable rage against Colonel Gaddafi is barmy and self-defeating and we will have to say sorry for it if he holds on to power.

Our logic seems to be that we will take a high moral tone towards any leader who fails to terrorise his people into submission, but remain silent about those who are ruthless enough to stay in the saddle.

Meanwhile, we do nothing about the great national issue of our time, the EU’s slow-motion strangling of a thousand years of independent British history.

That would be a real, difficult challenge of diplomacy, which would require actual courage and determination from politicians, and couldn’t be sub-contracted to the real men in the Army, the Navy and the RAF.


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