A British member of parliament for the Labour Party, Emily Thornberry, might become her nation’s next foreign secretary — their equivalent of our secretary of state. So we should pay attention to what happened on Thursday, when Thornberry inadvertently explained that her prospective Labour government will be a proud puppet for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Led by Jeremy Corbyn, an avowed anti-American socialist who hates NATO and would unilaterally surrender Britain’s nuclear deterrent forces, Labour wants to replace Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government come the next election, likely in 2019 or 2022. But on Thursday’s episode of the BBC’s flagship political roundtable show, Question Time, Thornberry repeatedly defended Russia’s lie that it is not preventing weapons inspector access to the site of a recent chemical attack in Syria.
Thornberry began by condemning May for joining U.S. and French strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“We start seeing [chemical weapons] being used, so what do we decide to do? We decide that we’re just going to — a few of us are going to — unilaterally say, ‘That’s not right, we’re going to do something about it.’ What we needed to do — I was at the [United Nations] Security Council when we had the first discussion — and what was happening was that the Americans on the one hand were saying, ‘Of course it was the Russians or Assad who was responsible for using these chemicals,’ and the Russians were saying, ‘There were no chemicals used at all.’ Baseline, which they all agreed on, ‘Let’s send in the investigators so there is no argument.'”
Such amazing twaddle testifies to the British Left’s absolutist belief that the United Nations is the best and sole means of international security. That somehow Putin is more scared of Manhattan conversations than practiced national power in support of diplomatic action. But her truly damning assertion was that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inspectors are being denied access to Douma for reasons other than a concerted Syrian and Russian effort to keep them out. The shadow foreign secretary explained that:
This is ridiculous. The U.S. has conducted no air strikes in proximity to Douma and Damascus since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. Second, the OPCW itself has said that gunfire and threats have prevented its inspectors from accessing Douma.
Amazingly, when Thornberry’s blame of “red tape” was then challenged by the Conservative minister on the panel, Liz Truss, the Labour MP doubled down.
“I don’t accept,” Thornberry remarked, “what [Truss] says about the Russians stopping [OPCW access to Douma]. My understanding is that it’s a United Nations problem with their red tape and their safety — getting their safety stuff through. That is what I’ve been told.”
Who told her this? Probably her boss, Corbyn, who has dined with Russian agents and spews Russian propaganda even on the floor of Parliament.
Some people believe President Trump is too friendly toward Putin, but he doesn’t hold a candle to British Labour. The need to keep them out of power has never been greater.
