If you support it, then you are more right-wing than Simon Heffer.
Apparently, it will never be used anyway. So that's all right, then. And the thing is obviously all the more necessary. Isn't it?
And since this measure would be more appropriate in Cuba, it seems only fitting that aid to Cuba is being promised in order to buy off MPs who would have voted against it; Cuba is to sections of Labour what South Africa used to be to the Tories.
As I sometimes have cause to tell people, if I wanted a government which persecuted those who engage in homosexual acts, then I'd move to Cuba. The American blockade has won the Cuban regime the sympathy of huge numbers of people who should know better.
Since there is both a Santiago de Chile and a Santiago de Cuba, I propose the Santiago Test: however you reacted to the death of Pinochet, then that is how you should react to the death of Castro. Watch out for the people who don't pass the Santiago Test.
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Simon Heffer is a leftwing, nationalist, atheist buffoon.
ReplyDeleteThe absurd bill that the Government has just passed will apparently have MPs voting on whether or not to keep suspected terrorists locked up.
I feel safer already!
Why Cuba? What's wrong with Dominica? Or with Antingua and Barbuda, which still has the Queen as Head of State?
I think you'll find there are a few political differences between Pinochet and Castro. For one thing, there is no way Castro (or his brother) will ever step down in favour of a democratically elected successor.