Lobby your MP to act against any war!
Readers might be interested in the email I've just sent to my MP. If you feel likewise, please write to your MP opposing the war. On the other hand, if you support a war, then go and jump in the lake.
Email to Mike Weatherley MP for Hove.
Dear Mike Weatherley
I am writing to you to use your vote today in Parliament and all other occasions to oppose any military attacks on Syria, or indeed any other country, by the UK, alone or with other countries.
I'm sure that you know that the overwhelming majority of the UK's population are against yet another war conducted by the UK and USA. You will have noted that on the front page of The Independent yesterday was a photograph of Mr Cameron with the caption "Heir To Blair". I think this is very appropriate as Mr Cameron has modelled himself on Mr Blair who must be the most reviled politician in the world.
Mr Cameron has changed his tune in the last day or two as he knows that the original motion he was going to put would have been defeated even if the Conservative Party had issued a Whip and if the Labour Party and Lib Dems had done the same. It seems that the majority of Conservative MPs would have opposed the go-ahead for a military attack on Syria. Ed Miliband, who originally supported a war using some weasel words, has now backed away somewhat fearing that the majority of Labour MPs would have denied him support. We know that Mr Miliband has got the spine and character of a pink blancmange.
As for Nick Clegg, he is now completely discredited as being an unprincipled puppet or Mr Cameron. You will remember that he rode on the coattails of the Lib Dems' opposition to the war in Iraq but he has now squandered all this good will to his party by his obsequiousness. He is now politically dead and the Lib Dems will surely soon dump him.
As for Mr Cameron you know as well as I do that he's very unpopular with the Conservative Party and in the country generally. Whatever happens in Parliament, Mr Cameron will never have any authority again.
You will probably recall that Anthony Eden MP was destroyed by his unleashing of war (secretly with Israel and France) against Egypt in 1956. That attack failed and not only was Mr Eden forced from Office but his health was also broken. Mr Cameron's weird words are probably based on the fact that he moves in circles that suck up to him and because he reads the organs of the political class.
The argument for the proposed attack is completely based on their having been a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August 2013. There is no evidence that such an attack had been carried out ot, if it had been, who did it. Obama, Cameron and Hollande have merely said, time and time again, that there was such an attack and that the Syrian Government was responsible. Not only is there no evidence that the Syrian Government carried out an attack, there is no possible reason that they would do so. The Government is winning the ground war against the armed rebels and for any Government to launch chemical weapons in the suburbs of it's own capital would surely cause it to lose support amongst it's own population. The allegation is simply not credible.
We do not even know if Syria has any chemical weapons at all. The recent Syrian ambassador to Turkey told the BBC yesterday that he didn't know! Has Syria got an equivalent to Porton Down? If so, we should be told about it!
The latest news from the Government is that, mysteriously, they now have proof that there was a chemical weapons attack on 21 August and that it was carried out by the Syrian Government but they don't say how they know this!
Information about the chemical weapons allegedly used on 21 August is very vague. Sometimes those who stand behind the allegation say it is sarin, sometimes "a nerve gas", and sometimes " a poison gas". As you surely know, sarin, which is an organophosphorous material, is very easily distributed and certainly doesn't need any shells or rockets. You could take it out of a handbag and throw it at people which is what happened on the Tokyo underground in 1995 when about a dozen people were killed in this way by a terrorist group. It is open to any terrorist group in Syria, and they are well-funded by the UK tax-payer, to unleash sarin in a populated area and then blame the government.
You probably know that it's very easy to make sarin and any chemistry undergraduate could do so.
Finally, I remind you that the next general election is likely to be hotly contested, not least in Hove. There seems little doubt that UKIP will do very well as it did last May in East Sussex and Kent. Also, the Green Party is likely to do well as it has a lot of support in your constituency and in fact the MP for the conjoining constituency, BrightonPavilio, is already in their hands. You can be sure that both UKIP and the Green Party will exploit any support you give to yet another war.n r. I'm sure that if you vote for war you will never hear the end of it. So for the sake of your own political future, I urge you to say no to any war, however dressed up. I remind you that I am not a supporter of any political party.
Yours sincerely,
Colin Bennett (very active in your constituency)
Email to Mike Weatherley MP for Hove.
Dear Mike Weatherley
I am writing to you to use your vote today in Parliament and all other occasions to oppose any military attacks on Syria, or indeed any other country, by the UK, alone or with other countries.
I'm sure that you know that the overwhelming majority of the UK's population are against yet another war conducted by the UK and USA. You will have noted that on the front page of The Independent yesterday was a photograph of Mr Cameron with the caption "Heir To Blair". I think this is very appropriate as Mr Cameron has modelled himself on Mr Blair who must be the most reviled politician in the world.
Mr Cameron has changed his tune in the last day or two as he knows that the original motion he was going to put would have been defeated even if the Conservative Party had issued a Whip and if the Labour Party and Lib Dems had done the same. It seems that the majority of Conservative MPs would have opposed the go-ahead for a military attack on Syria. Ed Miliband, who originally supported a war using some weasel words, has now backed away somewhat fearing that the majority of Labour MPs would have denied him support. We know that Mr Miliband has got the spine and character of a pink blancmange.
As for Nick Clegg, he is now completely discredited as being an unprincipled puppet or Mr Cameron. You will remember that he rode on the coattails of the Lib Dems' opposition to the war in Iraq but he has now squandered all this good will to his party by his obsequiousness. He is now politically dead and the Lib Dems will surely soon dump him.
As for Mr Cameron you know as well as I do that he's very unpopular with the Conservative Party and in the country generally. Whatever happens in Parliament, Mr Cameron will never have any authority again.
You will probably recall that Anthony Eden MP was destroyed by his unleashing of war (secretly with Israel and France) against Egypt in 1956. That attack failed and not only was Mr Eden forced from Office but his health was also broken. Mr Cameron's weird words are probably based on the fact that he moves in circles that suck up to him and because he reads the organs of the political class.
The argument for the proposed attack is completely based on their having been a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August 2013. There is no evidence that such an attack had been carried out ot, if it had been, who did it. Obama, Cameron and Hollande have merely said, time and time again, that there was such an attack and that the Syrian Government was responsible. Not only is there no evidence that the Syrian Government carried out an attack, there is no possible reason that they would do so. The Government is winning the ground war against the armed rebels and for any Government to launch chemical weapons in the suburbs of it's own capital would surely cause it to lose support amongst it's own population. The allegation is simply not credible.
We do not even know if Syria has any chemical weapons at all. The recent Syrian ambassador to Turkey told the BBC yesterday that he didn't know! Has Syria got an equivalent to Porton Down? If so, we should be told about it!
The latest news from the Government is that, mysteriously, they now have proof that there was a chemical weapons attack on 21 August and that it was carried out by the Syrian Government but they don't say how they know this!
Information about the chemical weapons allegedly used on 21 August is very vague. Sometimes those who stand behind the allegation say it is sarin, sometimes "a nerve gas", and sometimes " a poison gas". As you surely know, sarin, which is an organophosphorous material, is very easily distributed and certainly doesn't need any shells or rockets. You could take it out of a handbag and throw it at people which is what happened on the Tokyo underground in 1995 when about a dozen people were killed in this way by a terrorist group. It is open to any terrorist group in Syria, and they are well-funded by the UK tax-payer, to unleash sarin in a populated area and then blame the government.
You probably know that it's very easy to make sarin and any chemistry undergraduate could do so.
Finally, I remind you that the next general election is likely to be hotly contested, not least in Hove. There seems little doubt that UKIP will do very well as it did last May in East Sussex and Kent. Also, the Green Party is likely to do well as it has a lot of support in your constituency and in fact the MP for the conjoining constituency, BrightonPavilio, is already in their hands. You can be sure that both UKIP and the Green Party will exploit any support you give to yet another war.n r. I'm sure that if you vote for war you will never hear the end of it. So for the sake of your own political future, I urge you to say no to any war, however dressed up. I remind you that I am not a supporter of any political party.
Yours sincerely,
Colin Bennett (very active in your constituency)
posted by Colin B. Bennett at 2:54 PM
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