I just watched Gordon Brown talking about international development in Milton Keynes, broadcast live across all the breaking news channels.
If you switched off your critical faculties, it was a heartfelt plea for internationalism. I was jogged harshly out of semi-attention when he talked of the need to “Do something about torture”.
Well, New Labour did something about torture. They promoted it, they institutionalised a policy of employing torture to get confessions for their “War on Terror”, they co-operated with the extraordinary rendition system. Oh, and while they were at it they sacked me and tried to frame me for opposing torture.
Brown’s heartrending photos of third world destitution strangely did not include any of the many tens of thousands of children’s bodies mangled in Iraq, or victims of bombings in Afghanistan. Nor did he talk about his nice ally President Karimov.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/04/britain_boosts.html#comments
Today was a play for the bleeding heart vote. The problem is the hearts New Labour made bleed quite literally.