Ladi Warsi resigns from the Cameron government over Gaza - her MUST READ letter

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/05/lady-warsi-resigns-government-gaza-stance
Lady Warsi, the senior Foreign Office minister, has resigned from the government in protest at its policy on Gaza, describing it as “morally indefensible”.

Warsi announced her departure on Twitter on Tuesday, saying: “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza.”

In her resignation letter, Warsi said the government’s “approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain’s national interest and will have a long term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically”.

She said the UK’s stance was “not consistent with the rule of law and our long support for international justice”, adding: “The British government can only play a constructive role in solving the Middle East crisis if it is an honest broker and at the moment I do not think it is.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/picture/2014/aug/05/lady-warsi-resignation-letter

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Interesting she brings up Clarke and Grieve getting pushed out of their jobs

It was said at the time that it indicated a more right wing line on international justice - Clarke has long been the most pro-EU of senior Tories, while others see the EU as 'foreign interference in British law', while Grieve was the Attorney General, who apparently took the straight-forward (in legal terms) line that the UK could not leave the European Convention on Human Rights without also leaving the EU and making the UK look like it doesn't care about human rights - and that was why Grieve was dropped, before there was a confrontation in which he resigned on a point of principle (most Tories hate the ECHR, because it guarantees some basic freedoms, and, since we don't have a formal constitution, that's all we have). So she lost allies shortly before the Gaza crisis started (and Hague was also more moderate than Hammond, his successor).

[malaise]

2. Reminds me of when Robin Cook

publicly resigned over Iraq. Then he died - still have doubts about that one.

[Jefferson23]

3. K&R.

[Karmadillo]

4. "I must be able to live with myself..." Let's hope her action inspires

some introspection on the part of those who continue to support the slaughter of innocents.

[MohRokTah]

5. I just read her tweet before seeing this thread.

It's good to see some integrity in somebody who was in the Israeli government.

[malaise]

6. British government n/t

[MohRokTah]

7. Pardon me.

Freudian slip on the keyboard.