Bag's Rants

Sidelined. The UKs place on the worlds stage.

Seems the US and France have agreed the wording on a ceasefire in Lebanon. Read here.

Blair was sidelined and the best he got was to welcome the agreement. Read here. So much for our presence on the worlds stage and our wonderful leader working on the middle east problem.

Maybe if he is good he will get to stand by them when the announce this to Israel and Hezbollah. Maybe they will even imply that others, including the UK, helped on it. Save a bit of face there if they do that. With the US involved this will already have been agreed with Israel. Getting Hezbollah and Lebanon to agree will be the interesting bit but in reality they won't have much choice if they don't want to have others lined up against them. They can always restart in a few weeks.

I think that Blair could leave for his holiday only a day late if the reason is really the conflict in the middle east. Of course if it's the conflict in the Labour party he has been working on then he better wait a few more days. Use the middle east crisis as an excuse.

posted by Bag @ 9:28 pm