Clare Short
Clare Short
Clare Shortis a British politician, and a member of the Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent. She stood down as a member of parliament at the 2010 general election. Short was Secretary of State for International Development in the government of Prime...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 February 1946
force kosovo leave refugees returning seem
They seem now to have started rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by force.
change
I have set out to change the language of the international system.
aid bear brought enormous intelligence lady misuse people promise round services trying
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
anyway bully countries war
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.
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Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
causes dealing discussion finding honest horrendous people preventing situation underlying
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
again attorney brought defence domain fishy legal legality public question stopped suspicion war
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
thinking iraq suffering
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
break-up mean agreement
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
government needs chance
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
anger mean justice
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
rights roots effort
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.
needs action should
Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
morning accusing-me people
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.