No Mandate Brown has told a meeting of the UN that “no-one thinks” Mugabe won the Zimbabwean presidential elections.
He then had the audacity to say “The credibility of the democratic process depends on there being a legitimate government”.
What’s that you say? Legitimate government? Is that like the leader of the country asking the electorate to vote for them as leader? The type of mandate that Gordo the Goblin King bottled out of himself?
The Goblin King has made some noises about standing behind the Zimbabwean people (why am I reminded of South Park the Movie?) and making sure their will is upheld. The man really has no shame considering the way he denies the English equal rights that they want.
Gordo’s speech seems to imply that a little trip to Rhodesia might be on the cards for the army if things aren’t sorted sharpish but there’s no mention of the Chinese in all this – they’ve been priming Zimbabwe as a client state for the past few years and they’ve got a lot of investment in Zimbabwe that they might not be keen on risking if Mugabe gets a forced eviction.
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I doubt very much if there will be any military intervention in Zimbabwe. Brown’s not stupid, he’ll go to the UN to widen things – a risky move in itself – but he wouldn’t countenance talk of toppling the government because that would merely make matters worse for the MDC.
You’ll notice the absence of an explanation over why Mugabe didn’t just rig the election from the get-go. He and Tsvangirai probably tied – due to the candidacy of Simba Makoni, a former Zanu-PF finance minister running as an independent. Still, it’s a wonder the MDC didn’t shoot Mugabe’s fox and agree to a speedy run-off election – I guess it reflects the party is split into two factions.
Irony… I’m not sure politicians know what the word means…
Why do tbey hate us aa ‘ex imperial bosses’? were they not independent under Ian Smith for ages?
Sadly, our system is different, we voted in the labour party, so we have to suffer them until we vote them out.
They choose their own choice of socl puppet as leader.
AS a brief aside, was Gerald Ford elected at all?
Rockefeller was impeached, so was Nixon, surely that makes him ‘non-elected’?