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I’ve never been a fan of Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry.
She comes across as being aloof, arrogant, pompous and too removed from the general public to be considered a real voice of the working class.
But to her enormous credit, she didn’t mince her words in a recent article condemning Saudi Arabia’s warmongering government.
She positively – and rightly – slated its disgraceful military attacks in Yemen, deplorable human rights record and, of course, the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in what the
Saudi regime claim was a “fist-fight” in its Istanbul consulate.
But the main thrust of her article centred upon the uncaring duplicity that has been shown by the UK Government over this horrible killing.
She rightly asked what our Government’s reaction would have been if Russia or Iran had carried out a similar atrocity on one of their foreign dissidents within the sovereign territory of another country.
As she pointed out, it took Boris Johnson, then Foreign Secretary, less than 24 hours to have a hairy fit over the alleged assassination of journalist Arkady Babchenko on the streets of Kiev five months ago.
His death was actually staged in an attempt to get Vladimir Putin’s agents to reveal themselves.
However, in comparison, it took our new Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, a lamentable seven days before he even issued a tweet saying he was seeking “urgent answers” from the Saudi authorities over Jamal’s disappearance.
One rule for one brutal regime, another for a more despicable one.
It is about their blockades and carpet bombing of Yemen, now regarded as the greatest humanitarian crisis in modern times, their systematic repression, jailing, torturing, whipping and beheading of their own citizens, and a few unlucky foreigners, who criticise or mock Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman