Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Saturday 16 July 2011
Recognition Failure
There is now no reason why any guerrilla uprising, and certainly not why any Islamist one, cannot expect to be recognised as the legitimate government of whichever country might happen to be under discussion. Is there?
I wrote here at the time that after Kosovo, those who supported that move would be powerless against any such declaration by, for example, Southern California, or the former Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire. I stand by that. But this is even worse.
First Kosovo, now this.
ReplyDeleteI wrote here at the time that after Kosovo, those who supported that move would be powerless against any such declaration by, for example, Southern California, or the former Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire. I stand by that. But this is even worse.
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