Gordon Brown Is Absolutely Right
Gordon is absolutely right to have boycotted the EU/Africa summit over the attendance of Robert Mugabe and his human rights violations. I said the same when this was first announced as possibility, and I haven’t seen anything that could change my mind about it since.
If anything, in fact, I think that Brown is even more right than I thought before to boycott this, since it is being proclaimed as a “summit of equals“. This just boosts Mugabe, something which the civilised world should not be doing.
It is certainly ironic that the EU, with all it’s rules and proclaimed interest in human rights to back a man who is killing his own country. In fact, wasn’t Mugabe supposedly banned from entering the EU due to his human rights violations? Isn’t it nice how consistent they are.
Gordon Brown is absolutely right to boycott this summit over Mugabe. Just a pity he’s so wrong about everything else…
UPDATE: It seems it isn’t such a principled stand after all, since “pseudo minister” Baroness Amos has been sent to represent Britain. If Brown was really serious over this, he wouldn’t have sent anyone.
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