Comic Book Journalism
How would you guess that the author of this piece of comic book journalism from The Mirror, Kevin Maguire, is aspiring to be a Labour Party MP.
Now propaganda as bad as this sounds like it has been written for a presenter from Russia Today, apart from the reference to kicking President Putin 'in the roubles' whatever that Benny Hill style double entendre is supposed to mean.
Vlad the Impaler indeed, the UK's tabloid press has sunk to another low.
Lightweight David Cameron is no match for Vlad the Impaler
BY KEVIN MAGUIRE - The Mirror
British colonialism was bloody, nasty and unjust and our columnist Kevin Maguire does not feel any pride for the current empire
BY KEVIN MAGUIRE - The Mirror
British colonialism was bloody, nasty and unjust and our columnist Kevin Maguire does not feel any pride for the current empire
Weak: David Cameron hasn't done enough to stop Russian rebels - Photo PA
David Cameron’s championing of Britain as a servant economy for the world’s plutocrats gives a hollow ring to his empty threats against Vlad the Impaler.
Putin, Russia’s new Tsar, feels impregnable because the judo black belt is up against a 10-stone wimp.
The indignity in death of the 298 victims of Kremlin imperialism, armed rebels refusing to let bodies be recovered, demands a tough response.
Behind the rhetoric little will happen when Cameron values the banksters of the City of London over Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over the Ukraine by Russian rebels or, perhaps, the Russians themselves.
How else can we explain the Prime Minister’s refusal to freeze the bank accounts and seize assets of the regime’s oligarchs?
London remains the playground of the rich who looted and swindled fortunes in Putin’s gangster land.
To inflate the prices of mansions we continue to allow Russians to buy property with dirty money.
Rather than kick Putin in the roubles where it hurts we watch as Cameron lets a Moscow elite launder money in London.
he puny sanctions imposed to date are an indictment of the PM’s grubby politics.
In opposition, when Cameron posed as a principled politician to con electors to vote Tory, he posed as a St George prepared to slay a ferocious Russian dragon.
After Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, the Conservative leader declared: “Russian armies can’t march into other countries while Russian shoppers carry on marching into Selfridges.”
Russia was provoked by Georgian shelling but there is no excuse for the destabilisation and destruction of Ukraine.
Whether the fatal missile that killed 298 on a passenger jet was fired by Russian-backed rebels or Russian forces is unresolved yet the trail leads back to Putin.
And those Russian shoppers carry on marching into Selfridges.
The days are thankfully long gone when a Lord Palmerston could send a British gunboat to settle a dispute.
British colonialism was bloody, nasty and unjust – and I for one feel no pride in the Empire era.
We aren’t going to settle this dispute by dispatching an aircraft carrier, not least because Tory defence cuts leave the Royal Navy without one.
But we could impose tough financial and travel sanctions to match Cameron’s rhetoric.
Putin must be laughing when Cameron waves a nail-studded baseball bat in his speeches then produces a feather duster.
US President Barack Obama and the European Union haven’t covered themselves in glory either. Cameron can’t hide behind them forever.
Inaction over Russia underlines a character flaw glimpsed by Cameron dumping reshuffled friend Michael Gove to save his own skin.
The PM is morally bankrupt.
David Cameron’s championing of Britain as a servant economy for the world’s plutocrats gives a hollow ring to his empty threats against Vlad the Impaler.
Putin, Russia’s new Tsar, feels impregnable because the judo black belt is up against a 10-stone wimp.
The indignity in death of the 298 victims of Kremlin imperialism, armed rebels refusing to let bodies be recovered, demands a tough response.
Behind the rhetoric little will happen when Cameron values the banksters of the City of London over Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over the Ukraine by Russian rebels or, perhaps, the Russians themselves.
How else can we explain the Prime Minister’s refusal to freeze the bank accounts and seize assets of the regime’s oligarchs?
London remains the playground of the rich who looted and swindled fortunes in Putin’s gangster land.
To inflate the prices of mansions we continue to allow Russians to buy property with dirty money.
Relationship: Cameron talks to Putin during a visit to the 2014 Winter Olympics - Getty photo
Rather than kick Putin in the roubles where it hurts we watch as Cameron lets a Moscow elite launder money in London.
he puny sanctions imposed to date are an indictment of the PM’s grubby politics.
In opposition, when Cameron posed as a principled politician to con electors to vote Tory, he posed as a St George prepared to slay a ferocious Russian dragon.
After Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, the Conservative leader declared: “Russian armies can’t march into other countries while Russian shoppers carry on marching into Selfridges.”
Russia was provoked by Georgian shelling but there is no excuse for the destabilisation and destruction of Ukraine.
Whether the fatal missile that killed 298 on a passenger jet was fired by Russian-backed rebels or Russian forces is unresolved yet the trail leads back to Putin.
And those Russian shoppers carry on marching into Selfridges.
The days are thankfully long gone when a Lord Palmerston could send a British gunboat to settle a dispute.
Reckage: The remains of doomed flight MH17 remain in the Ukraine - AFP photo
British colonialism was bloody, nasty and unjust – and I for one feel no pride in the Empire era.
We aren’t going to settle this dispute by dispatching an aircraft carrier, not least because Tory defence cuts leave the Royal Navy without one.
But we could impose tough financial and travel sanctions to match Cameron’s rhetoric.
Putin must be laughing when Cameron waves a nail-studded baseball bat in his speeches then produces a feather duster.
US President Barack Obama and the European Union haven’t covered themselves in glory either. Cameron can’t hide behind them forever.
Inaction over Russia underlines a character flaw glimpsed by Cameron dumping reshuffled friend Michael Gove to save his own skin.
The PM is morally bankrupt.
