Why won't the West help Syria?

The people of Hamas in Syria are desperate; they are desperate for help and support. The world looks on as President Assad continues his assault on innocent civilians, women and children, young and old. After the brutal crushing of protesters there was condemnation from Western leaders but there was little in the way of action, why?                                                                                                                            We can thank President Bush and Prime Minister Blair for our inability to act in the Middle East. The disastrous Iraq war has left the Western governments deeply scared and weary of any military intervention. I have no doubt that the people of Iraq would have participated fully in the spring uprisings in order to overthrow Saddam if he was still in power. If only we our governments had waited. Think of the loss of life we could have saved not to mention our integrity as democratic and peace loving nations. It is the Iraq war alone which has disabled any chance of the West playing a part in these uprisings.                                                                                                                                                       What of the Syrian people? It is sad to say but there is little hope for them. Assad will crush all resistance to his totalitarian regime and will use propaganda to blame the Israelis for the insurgency.  Again we must sit and watch.

A dark day for Clegg and a dark day for Britain.

The votes are in and it is a landslide for the conservative elements of this country.  The British public have clearly said no to the alternative voting system.  The results speak for themselves, it appears that the ‘Yes’ votes add up to merely 30%.

                Nick Clegg has been punished, this is hardly surprising, the public have been gunning for him since he first formed the coalition government with the conservatives back in 2010. The Conservatives hate him, the media hate him and the Liberal voters hate him. However all this hate and smear campaigns has damaged the British peoples best interests, here the public had a chance to shake up the political landscape and to pave the way for a fairer Britain, instead Clegg has egg on his face and the politicians are talking as if the notion of political reform is dead. Was it worth it? Does the country really want to keep the deeply flawed first past the post system?

                The real winners of this referendum are the conservative party and the right wing media, from day one they have hounded the Liberal Democrats (Remember Vince Cable and The Telegraph saga) and the ‘Yes’ campaign.  David Cameron knew that the British public would never vote for anything supported by Nick Clegg, anything the bogie man supports will be rejected.  Now the conservatives have suppressed any argument for reform of the political system. It is a sad and dark day for Britain and we only have ourselves to blame.