Paul. I agree that the second Iraqi war shouldn't have proceeded without a UN mandate, although I have some ambivalence as an Iraqi friend, a fellow mature post grad student at Anglia Poly in 1991 (who was outspoken about Saddam and had to leave a very high standard standard of living to flee back to the UK with his British wife in the 80s), gave me an ear bending over some beers about how annoyed he was that we just massacred the Iraqi army and then failed to finish off Saddam at the end of the first Iraqui war. (To be fair, he mainly blamed the US for that.) But back on topic, given the number of Labour members who must have voted for the LibDem, Green and Brexit parties when electing MEPs this could be a serious own goal; yes, Campbell and Blair have large egos but are you seriously going to tell me Farage, Johnson et al, and even Clegg, don't also have massive egos? Surely, they wouldn't be putting themselves forward for such positions if they didn't have at least a tiny bit of ego? I know when I've been chairing management meetings in IT or Infosec I've sometime wanted to blast Brian Wilson's "Hang on to your ego" at the start of the meeting! (It's an outtake from Pet Sounds, the earlier lyric for "I know there's an answer" 🙂)
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