Robin Cook in the Guardian today on the International Criminal Court. Leave aside, for a moment, his insistence that only the Court can deal with Darfur, his use of this as a hook upon which to trap the US into acquiescence. Leave aside, even, the fact that we already have a perfectly good method of dealing with it, at the UN (yes, I know, tragic isn’t it, actually recommending that place for anything) if only they could have brought themselves to agree that what is going on is genocide. But they couldn’t, for to do so would mean they would have to do something.

No, what I found interesting was the following:

A commitment to an
international criminal court was one of the changes for the better in
foreign policy as a result of Labour’s victory. Under the
Conservatives, Britain had been a backmarker in negotiations to set up
such a court. After the change of regime,

Beg pardon? Change of regime? Does the red bearded dwarf really think that a Parliamentary election is a change of regime? Something more than just the swapping of one bunch of climbers up the greasy pole for another? Given what they’ve done to the Constitution since they got there maybe he does.

We mobilised support from
other nations, and provided financial help for smaller, poorer states
to send a delegation to the Rome conference at which the final package
was put to the vote.

Translation: We bribed a few ignorant schmucks from nowheresville countries with freebie trips to Rome to get them to vote our way.

Jeez, this is the man who proudly announced that the UK would follow an ethical foreign policy. JB Morton, where are you now when we need you?