So, anyway we're now into a fully fledged-motoring toward an existential abyss -Plebiscite on the question of our once Sovereign Nation's continuing subservience and deeper incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation under the aegis of Empress Angela.
Or at least it would seem so from the requisite prominence being accorded this most vital of concerns throughout the mainstream and not so mainstream Media. But,hang on a mo' what's this being sneaked past our ever vigilant parliamentary watchmen,those heroes of Labour ?
The Daily ProperToryGraph reports :-
" Britain is prepared to send troops to Libya to bolster the country against Islamic State without asking for Parliament’s permission, the Foreign Secretary has said.
Philip Hammond said MPs need not be given a vote, as they were for air strikes in Iraq and Syria, because British troops would be deployed on a training rather than combat mission.
The Foreign Secretary spoke as the Government rejected Labour calls for a legal guarantee that MPs could veto sending troops to war in future.
Enshrining in law the current agreement that MPs vote on sending troops to fight would tie the hands of a future Government and limit options in a crisis, the Defence Secretary said.
Defence chiefs are considering offering as many as 1,000 troops as part of an international effort to train the police and army of the fledgling Tripoli government. "
So,where's Shadow Foreign Secretary Benn's impassioned,hyperbolic,quasi-moralistic outrage when you need some ? After all ,during the "Can We Bomb parts of Syria,please "debate , he managed to invoke the entire,largely bogus mythology surrounding the events in Spain 1936-39 with such aplomb that many a grown politician,ekeing out a pitiful existence on parliamentary expenses,were reduced to weeping aloud and gnashing their privately maintained teeth and some,those on the proper Left may even had cause to rend their garments.
But not this time,a diplomatic " piss off " is all that our sojourners on the benches of Westminster are getting by way of reasoned argument sans actual debate in the hallowed Chamber. The Chamber of the Commons which has seen many an eloquent rhetorical defence of,the continuation of slavery,arrest and imprisonment and execution of various opposition leaders and people who the majority wanted rid of, ( circa 1630-49 ).
And so it goes,bomb a country,destroy a country,lament the ensuing chaos,look aghast at all the people who flee the chaos and then cobble together something anything with a lot of heavily armed gangsters who are only in it for the money and the power. And of course there are also the diverse Libyan factions to deal with as well.
Postscript :-
Oh and don't forget to comply and endorse in a personal and meaningful way your own desire that the place you were born and brought up in remains a peripheral maritime province of the Imperial Tyranny.Who ,quite honestly couldn't care less one way or t'other.Unless,of course you happen to be someone who shares the intellectual rigour and comprehensive worldview of someone like, Mary Creagh MP.
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