Are you ashamed of your country and depressed following last night’s vote against intervening in Syria? David Aaronovitch the journalist is.
I do not give a fuck what this means for Miliband and Cameron. It’s the message it sends to Assad that counts. I am ashamed.
— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) August 29, 2013
Tim Shipman of the Daily Mail is.
Glad I’m in France today, a country that understands the responsibilities of being a military power
— Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) August 30, 2013
So is Sarah Vine, the columnist, as well as, apparently, her husband Michael Gove.
Paddy Ashdown says that Great Britain is plunging towards ‘isolationism’. Even our own Toby Young says ‘that the message sent out by the mother of parliaments last night to tyrants across the world was: “Do whatever you like. Gas your own citizens. Murder innocent children. Commit genocide.
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