Britain's poisonous hypocrisy | SocialistWorker.org

19.9.13

Britain's poisonous hypocrisy | SocialistWorker.org: The British Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband, the main parliamentary opposition to Cameron's Conservatives, have been credited with the resolution's defeat. However, Labour Party leaders indicated they would back the attack on Syria if the U.S. effort was sanctioned by the United Nations, according to international law. The Labour Party has a long history of supporting U.S. imperialism--with Tony Blair's enthusiastic support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan only the most recent examples.

Support for U.S. imperialism and preservation of the so-called "special relationship" between Britain and America is hardwired into the entire British political establishment, no matter what the cost, no matter what the opposition of the British public, and no matter what the degree of hypocrisy required to sustain it.