(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Diplomatic experts are puzzled by a very strange diplomatic incident which occurred at Heathrow airport a couple of days ago.
In an unprecedented diplomatic action by UK border police, Lech Walesa the Nobel Prize laureate and ex-President of Poland was halted and searched by UK border guards as he arrived at Heathrow airport. Walesa complained that his bags were opened and his underwear pulled out for all to see. He called the actions of the UK border police ‘humiliating’
The incident has been widely reported in Poland, but has hardly warranted a mention in the UK press, this Telegraph article being a notable exception:
Lech Walesa ‘will never return to London’ after being searched at Heathrow
I assure you, this incident really is very odd. It’s normal practice for diplomatic VIPs from EU countries to be allowed to enter the country without being stopped and having their bags searched.
After all, what on earth do the border guards think they’ll find among the 70-year-old Lech Walesa’s underwear – bomb making equipment or Al Qaeda propaganda?
This action occurred at exactly the same time as the Cameron government announced a charm offensive aimed at the Chinese Communist leadership in Beijing – a charm offensive which includes the present high level visit by Cameron, Osborne and Boris Johnson as well as the announcement of a new visa system aimed at attracting rich Chinese visitors and Chinese government officials to Britain.
Walesa has been a long-standing thorn in the side of the Chinese government. Not least because he is seen as the person who brought about the destruction of the Soviet Communist system but also because he has openly supported Chinese dissidents and human rights activists.
Walesa regularly invites Chinese dissidents to his native Poland and when Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was prevented from collecting his Nobel peace Prize in 2010 by a furious Chinese government – Walesa infuriated the Chinese even more by offering to collect the prize for him.
Is his diplomatic humiliation a coincidence?
Or is Cameron and our coalition government so desperate to attract Chinese investment to the UK – they are prepared to do the bidding of the Communist dictators in Beijing in order to silence voices speaking up against human rights abuses in China?
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Like justice, it only needs to be seen to be done, not actually done. I know it’s the wrong way round, but how many times have we “seen” justice only to find out that the real wrong has not been either undone or penalised?
Thus it is here – an action right before the Chinese’s eyes, designed to please and flatter. This myopic from six months ago shows Thatcher and Lech as another great “seeing the charm action” exercise…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10378091
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I DO NOT BELIEVE,IT WAS COINCIDENCE,TO HUMILIATE LECH WALESA,I BELIEVE IT WAS DELIBERATE,–AND–ON –DIRECT—ORDERS,FROM–CAMERON,HIMSELF,TO COZY,UP TO THE CHINESE, ELEPHANT MURDERERS,THE CHINESE ELEPHANT,SLAUGHTERERS,WHO ARE PUSHING,ELEPHANTS,AND RHINO,TO THE VERY EDGE,OF EXTINCTION,IN THERE ,WICKED,EVIL,PERVERTED,DEPRAVED QUEST,FOR THE ELEPHANT,AND RHINOS IVORY,THESE ARE IN MOST PART ,A WICKED NATION,WHO WISH TO WIPE OUT,ELEPHANTS,AND-RHINO,—HOW–LONG–BEFORE–THEY–TURN–ON–US>?THE PEOPLE,ONCE WE ARE NO LONGER USEFUL,THAT WILL BE IT,,–AND–WE–THE–PEOPLE–KNOW,–HOW,–EVIL CAMERON IS,,HE WOULD SELL HIS MOTHER,,FOR A LITTLE WONGA,AND HIS CHILDREN,,THAT MAN IS PURE–PURE. EVIL.TO EMBARRASS ,A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT IN THAT MANNER,IS NOTHING SHORT OF DISGRACEFUL,,AND AGAIN DEMONSTRATES,THE VERY,VERY,SERIOUS CORRUPTION,–WITHIN THE ULTRA–RIGHT–WING–PRESS,AND–MEDIA,NOTABLEY THE PEOPLE HATING,DAILY-MAIL,THE-TIMES,–THE-SUN.–THE–EXPRESS,,THESE ARE PEOPLE,,HATING –RAGS,,MEDIA–PROPAGANDA,–TERRORIST ARMS,–OF THE–POLITICAL–TERRORIST,–CONDEMS,,
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Reblogged this on The Greater Fool.
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Gets ” interesting ” ……Inspector Knacker and PC Plod raid Miss Whiplash’s abode …just before she was going to * apparently spill the beans on fare dodger Osborne …I’m sure all that powder on the table in the picture was sherbet…..it was very popular amongst the Bullingdon Club Boys …they all must have had a sweet tooth M’lud
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This Chinese conspiracy link is completely daft and based on absolutely nothing. Lech Walesa himself seems to put the blame on a provocation by the Polish Embassy. However, the most like explanation is cockup rather than coincidence.
Walesa was coming here for a film premiere so it’s unlikely Cameron knew anything about it until he read the Telegraph story.
An equally daft theory would be it was Roy Hodgsons idea as a way of upsetting the Poles before tonight’s England Poland World Cup football qualifier.
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Clive – So you think it’s just coincidence – fair enough. Although I’m surprised you can’t see that Walesa’s claims that his own embassy was involved in the incident makes it more of a conspiracy theory not less of one.
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The possible polish embassy link would be a conspiracy but adds no weight to the Chinese Cameron conspiracy theory or to my Roy Hodgson conspiracy theory.
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One investment area for the Chinese will be London property, ensuring that Tarquin and Tara’s investments will continue to reap a return.
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Clive – normally I’m more of a cock-up and cover-up man but the problem with the cock-up explanation of the UK border guards’ behaviour in this case, is that you’d have to believe that an extremely well-known elderly Polish man travelling on a Polish VIP passport with an extremely famous handlebar moustache would not be recognised by them.
Unlikely IMHO.
And if you believe the border guards did recognise him, the question remains. Why on Earth did they break diplomatic protocol and demand to search his bags?
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ah so the Chinese are their best friends now yes I now but is this the new plan when they all get that call to court is it a backdoor to go to wouldn’t surprise me one bit with this lot jeff3
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Could it have anything to do with the description of UKBA staff as rhyming with “lunch of fronts”?
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‘Somebody’ tucked Walesa up, no doubt. So many candidates to choose from, all equally qualified……..
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Reblogged this on HUMAN RIGHTS & THE SIEGE OF BRITAIN POLITICAL JOURNAL and commented:
Should not have happened in the first place, Hang you head shame Cameron
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Tom – You seem to forget that Lech Walesa was in the news MANY years ago. Not everyone is as old as you or me! Also many people are (and were) completely uninterested in the news anyway. Don’t assume that UK border guards have a clue about current or past affairs…….
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Tom – P.S. To most UK border guards a Polish passport just means “dodgy plumber taking our jobs”. I think it’s nothing more than that (though that’s very sad) and you are just inventing a story by claiming Cameron must have been involved.
Have you ever applied for a job on a tabloid newspaper? You might do very well! I’ll look out for your real name…. and what is that?
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FinkFurst – “Did Cameron order the humiliation of Lech Walesa?” is not an invented story.
It’s a question.
And what on earth makes you think I’m not really a 350 year old ex-officer of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army called Thomas Pride?
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Tom – Very true, it IS a question… to which the answer is “almost certainly not”.
I have to say you look and smell pretty good for someone who’s been dead for 350 years!
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Fallowing the money usually gives answers. Chinese comrades are very sensitive and easy to offend. It could be a perfect explanation. The question is if Walesa was ever visited by Chinese dissidents or activists. I can not find any information about it. what was your source of informations ?
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Norbert – do you speak Polish 😉 : http://www.walesa.tv/blog-lecha-walesy/spotkaniezliaoyiwu
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I do 😉 for some reasons Walesa’s activity on the filed of human rights in China or Tibet hardly get any attention in polish media
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Norbert – mówisz po polsku? Ja też ale nie dobrze znam gramatyki – tylko mogę czytać i rozumiem dosyc dobrze też. 🙂
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… i jestem pewien, że nie skorzystać z usługi tłumaczenia Internetu!
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FinkFurst – absolutely nie. Każda błąd gramatyka jest całkowicie moje!
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Proszę, wybacz mi za tak cyniczny. Nie wiem, gdzie mam pomysł, że jesteś też cyniczny!
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Nie mam zielonego pojęcia skąd masz taki pomysł też!
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I thought the Tories rather liked Lech – after all, once he’d got the Soviets out of Poland he pretty well sold the country off to foreign “investment” & saddled them with debts to keep them in bondage for a few decades. What’s not to like, if you’re a Tory?
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