Emulating Our Greatest Ally

Well, here's a thing: an American policy which Her Majesty's Government is not rushing to emulate. The Government announced an "urgent review" of its policy on leaving Iraqi collaborators for the wolves on 8 August, which has turned out to be so urgent that no change of policy is evident two months later. Why is the Government not acting more like its greatest ally?

If you have not already done so, please write to your MP asking them to attend the Parliamentary Speaker Meeting on Tuesday 9 October. Speakers will include Mark Brockway, a former Warrant Officer in the Territorial Royal Engineers, who ran the British Army’s Quick Impact Reconstruction Projects in 2003. He hired a great many Iraqi staff in 2003, has been in close contact with them since and knows of at least one who has been recently murdered. Also present will be Richard Beeston, senior foreign correspondent for The Times newspaper; Ed Vaizey MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; Lynne Featherstone MP, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for International Development; and a senior Labour MP. Reporters from the mainstream news media will also be present.

Dan Hardie, who began this campaign, has a useful template setting out the main points; please adopt and adapt it, as MPs, like most people, tend to ignore obvious form letters.