James Forsyth James Forsyth

Harriet Harman needs a moral compass

Harriet Harman comes out with one of the most disgraceful statements by a government minister in a while, in today’s Independent. Here’s the exchange:

Now, Castro is not some cuddly Marxist but a brutal dictator. Harman’s statement is either an expression of extreme ignorance or of a double standard which sees no evil on the left. 

The Freedom in the World survey gives a few examples of the kind of regime that Castro ran:

All political organizing outside the PCC is illegal.Political dissent, spoken or written, is a punishable offense, and those so punished frequently receive years of imprisonment for seemingly minor infractions.

Access to the internet remained tightly controlled. It is illegal for Cubans to connect to the internet in their homes.

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