Question Time: Why doesn't UK act against Mugabe? Part 1/2

QuestionTime: 5th June 2008. Why is the UK sitting back and allowing Robert Mugabe to torture and kill members of the opposition party?

The panel will include the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, senior Conservative politician Lord Hurd, the Liberal Democrat chief economic spokesman Vince Cable, the director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti and the columnist Peter Hitchens.

Bare in mind this was recorded on the 5th June, a day before Mugabe banned aid workers from distributing aid in order to starve Zimbabweans into voting for the ZANU-PF in 3 weeks time, and banning all opposition rallies.

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[DisposableName]

Thank you for this upload boognish.

[boognish100]

Your welcome :)

[wisemansden]

Milliband get your band and march on to hell. Who the F are you to tell a sovereign nation what future its citizens must follow ? I know it hurts you like crazy to see a small African nation which once was your erstwhile property (Rhodesia), created by the most evil man by the name of Cecil Rhodes who enslaved its people and raped its resources on behalf of your crown and had the audacity to name it after himself. Mugabe is a man who has been educated in your system and knows all your tricks.

[boognish100]

The British government isn't telling Zimbabweans what future to follow. Mugabe on the other hand most certainly is, through intimidation and torture, censorship of the opposition and withholding aid.

[wisemansden]

The old wicked British empire trick of divide and rule will not work anymore Lord Turd. The reason the president of South Africa is not playing your game anymore, is because he and the other African leaders can see through your garbage of smoke screens. Mind your own god damn business and stop creating problems as usual in other nations. You want to kick Mugabee out of power, who descends from the most royal blood lines of Africa and is the only one who has the guts to make you pay.

[boognish100]

What royalty exactly do you believe Mugabe is descended from? I can assure you he doesn't have royal ancestry. Even if he did, why would that be relevant under a democratic system? It wouldn't hypothetically make his rule any more legitimate.

[StoogeWatcher]

Zimbabwe should be recolonised by the British.

[Waynes150]

Good points by Peter Hitchens.

[JoeSerpa]

@shahideurope Not just that, he supplied Milosevic and Serbia with money for invasion on Kosovo. Scum

[MrGoblin60]

Why does Britain sit back and allow Mugabe to tortute and kill his own people? Because they put him there!

[TheMasterNo6]

It all dates back to UDI. Had Smith not been so arrogant to do that, Mugabe in 79 wouldn't have come to power. The Govt here is hesitant to go over with military force now as it'd be Neo Colonialistic in many eyes. There are also no real economic benefits for the UK to go over there, Mugabe ruined the country. The Middle East is something they interfere in as a) they want pro Western puppet Govts installed and b) Oil reserves amongst other resources of economic benefit.

[codownni]

Great Britain gets slagged so much for her colonial past, yet this is one of many examples of what happens when certain Country's are allowed to rule themselves. 

[shahideurope]

Hurd supported genocide in Bosnia - fucker I hope he burns in hell.

[weiRdFishYorke]

the same goes for Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi, but no one in the West cares to criticize him, do they.

[EffLabels]

@DeborahWinter "Mugabe great"? LOL He's murdering his own people. How is that 'great'?

[mattvansickle]

Boognish? As in Ween? I do hope so.

[DeepSixed300]

Or do you prefer to invent your history instead, rather than examining primary sources?