Brown's and Obama's hyprocritcal high horse

Once again we see our leaders displaying astounding levels of hypocrisy by threatening Iran with sanctions and hinting at possible military action.

The first point of hypocrisy is our mistaken belief that we have a right to nuclear weapons while others do not. Brown's futile gesture of cutting the amount of nuclear submarines by one, is pointless. We still remain a nuclear power and are wasting billions replacing the scheme while our country racks up further debt.

The second point of hypocrisy is the refusal of the current nuclear club to tackle Israel on its nuclear arsenal. Israel is the only country in the middle east since 1990 to take hostile military action against another country in the region, yet they are allowed to hold onto their arsenal not just without sanctions but with preferential trade agreements and US foreign aid.

Don't get me wrong, I too do not believe Iran should become a nuclear power, but neither do I believe any other country should either.

Ahmadinejad stokes the flames of anti-Semitism in the Middle East

Yet again Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has used blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric to attack Israel by stating the Holocaust was "a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim". [BBC News]

How is such behaviour helping the Palestinian cause? To resort to lies and racism to fight for a cause discredits any valid statements you may make.

Israel should be criticised for it's illegal occupation and war crimes in the occupied territories, based on evidence and argument. Such abhorent behaviour is unacceptable and the sooner Ahmadinejad is gone the better.

Conference time

Unfortunately I am not going to be able to make conference this time. I would ask you to look out for the following fringe meetings organised by Green Left:

The first on the Afghan War will be on Thursday at 7pm with Jeremy Corbyn MP of Stop the War Coalition and our own Farid Bakht, Parliamentary Candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow.

The second on ‘Greens in Coalition – the Irish Experience’ will be on Saturday at 1pm with former Green Party councillor Bronwen Maher from Dublin and Joseph Healy, Parliamentary Candidate for Vauxhall.

There will also been a Green Party Trade Union Group fringe meeting on Saturday 7..00pm "Welfare Reform & Low paid Workers " with Anne Gray, Alan Wheatley and Peter Allan.

I have also put my name to two important motions which I would ask you to support:

C05 on Afghanistan and D01 on GPEx Standing Orders.