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Prestwick wrote:

After seeing the BBC Newsnight report (all twenty horrifying and fury inducing minutes of it) I think back to the catalouge of appeasement, corruption and sheer political inaction that has let Robert Mugabe destroy what was once the "breadbasket of Africa", institute one a racist, homophobic police state who only aid the populance when they want to get out and whose mismanagement of the economy, I could go on.

Instead, I'll go on about the total incompetence of the British government, too busy handwringing and looking embarrased after seeing their dancing monkey of many a 1960s British University campus go nuts in his native environment, a European Union so two faced and hypocritical that even though it placed a travel ban on Mugabe and his thugs, they still manage to let him enter Europe again and again to be applauded like some kind of perverse hero on stage. Of the Commonwealth ripped apart by either naked self interest to protect Mugabe (the African nations) or by simple lack of interest. I would say "for all its fine words" but I don't even think Canada has even said anything, ever, at all, in any of the past two administrations to warrant any interest in the Zimbabwean situation.

This is something which no matter how many times I try to ignore or forget, I just simply cannot ignore the anger of how this man has been allowed to destroy such a promising and beautiful country in such a way. It makes me more angry how those very institutions who are meant to make a difference completely fail.

The real problem with this thread is that Zimbabwe is no longer a member of the Commonwealth, therefore it cannot be the 'Shame of the Commonwealth'.

Moot point old chap.