Some interesting points as ever.

However what is the problem if we do have double standards? We should be able to choose as a country what we do, who we support and why. Don’t tell me more or less every country in the world doesn’t have double standards because in my opinion they do. Class issues and inequality are as relevant in every continent and as far as I am aware every country. Don’t tell me it isn’t the ordinary people who lose out in these countries/continents because it is, just as it is here.

Up until recently the USA did think it could police the world and decide to take sides in conflicts. Finally they realised that even they, with all their wealth and advantage, could not decide how others lived, thought, existed. It took thousands of American deaths in foreign shores before the people made their politicians realised that.

We are not perfect no one is but we haven’t half contributed massively to the well being of most of the world over the last couple of centuries or so. Not bad for a small island of less than 0.1% of the worlds population. Some people need to remember that.