Two sandwiches Short of a picnic
Shame on embittered has-been Clare Short for her frankly weird attack on Baroness Amos.
Short said of Amos' presence at the EU/Africa summit "I don't see any reason to send a kind of pseudo-minister and I think that it's not right to send her because she's black. I don't see any other reason for sending her."
Well done to Amos for the dignity with which she has responded to questions about Short's remarks.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 6:55 pm
4 Comments:
However, there may have been a better case made for sending no-one at all. Either you boycott something or you don't: sending a lower-level substitute is itself a half-hearted and compromised response.
6:06 pm, December 09, 2007
Zimbabwe is not the only topic up for discussion at the EU-African summit.
Whilst I believe the government's strategy on Darfur is deeply flawed, (promoting peace talks in the current circumstances is tantamount to supporting the GoS), it would be daft not to have a voice on an issue as important as the genocide there.
12:28 am, December 10, 2007
Does seem odd though Luke.
Brown could have boycotted it personally, to send a signal, but sent lower ranking ministers.
The odd thing is he refused to send ministers too, but sent a non-minister - who happens to be black. I don't think that's the reason she went actually, but you can see why people may think that if Brown withdraws everyone and then just sends her.
2:55 am, December 10, 2007
Shame on Gordon Brown for sending any old black person. They all know about africa don't they. Baroness Amos is from Guyana and I don't think her Hackney credentials help much
8:57 am, December 10, 2007
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