Friday 19 March 2010

Power-Broking For Grown-Ups

Here's an in interesting image: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, special representative of the “quartet” Tony Blair and EU High Representative Catherine Ashton are in Moscow.  Their starter for ten is Israel-Palestine relations.  Members of the team then have discussions on follow-up questions such as  -oooh -  balance of power in the Middle East, US-Russia nuclear arms talks with a supplementary on nuclear non-proliferation international agreements, European defence relations to NATO and to Russia, with a supplementary on NATO/Russia defence agreements?

What would  Gordon and Peter give to be where these people are?  They must be eating their hearts out denying their thraldom to Unite, denouncing cases of individual tax avoidance, and announcing small grants for electric car assembly.

4 comments:

Odin's Raven said...

What a nasty bunch of people!

hatfield girl said...

Oh yes, Raven.

The fifth man is Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Secretary who once remarked to David Miliband:

“Who are you to f—— lecture me?”

'Such was the repeated use of the “F word” according to one insider who has seen the transcript, it was difficult to draft a readable note of the conversation. He also asked Mr Miliband in equally blunt terms whether he knew anything of Russia’s history?

One Whitehall insider told me: “It was effing this and effing that. It was not what you would call diplomatic language. It was rather shocking.” (Telegraph).

Of course European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton has been toughened in the furnaces of Hell to stand up to this kind of abuse and is, no doubt, holding up under it, unlike the wilting banana.

Odin's Raven said...

It's a pity the Russians didn't just stick both Millibands in a gulag for a couple of decades. Now there's an idea for Gordon's retirement home!

Weekend Yachtsman said...

Gordon and Peter?

The sympathy meter is firmly stuck on zero.

They are as complicit as anyone in the handing over of our power and independence to the EU.

If they don't like it up 'em, they can reflect on the fact that they brought it on themselves - and on the rest of us, unfortunately.