That was until this week. Consider. I wrote here yesterday about the incoherence by both Cameron and Nick Clegg over UK strategy for Afghanistan. Even as the reverberations from this muddle were spreading, Cameron was making another, even more startling mistake. He told Sky News: I think it's important in life to speak as it is, and the fact is that we are a very effective partner of the U.S., but we are the junior partner...We we are absolutely determined - given how long we've been in Afghanistan, given that we are six months into an 18-month military strategy, embarking on a new political strategy - that we must be out in a combat role by 2015 but also b) that this, of course, is consistent with the timetable for the Afghan forces assuming responsibility for security - as agreed in the Kabul conference yesterday - in 2014, Straw pointed out that the question of whether UK forces will definitely leave by 2015 or whether their departure was conditional on the Afghan forces being able to take control of security in the region was now as clear as mud. David Cameron himself...Thursday, 22nd July 2010
Oh dear; it really is turning into a comedy act
11:34am
One of the main reasons people have been purring over the Cleggeroon coalition government is that it is apparently so very competent. David Cameron seems born to rule; he and several of his ministers have brains the size of planets; government once again appears smooth and effortless, in such pleasing contrast to the incoherence, dysfunctionality and chaos of its Labour predecessor.
...Wednesday, 21st July 2010
The brilliant military strategy of definite conditionality
6:27pm
Jack Straw was right. After the deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told the Commons this afternoon a) that
Saturday, 24 July 2010
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