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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
To some this is a bit of a wishy washy response to a crisis he compares to the
Cold War. But Mr Hague points out that “all options are on the table”. This
is diplo-speak for military action, which Britain has not ruled out. And
nor, he points out, have the Lib Dems, who as partners in the Coalition
support the policy even if their manifesto is expressly opposed to a
military solution against Iran.
Britain’s involvement in the brinkmanship with Iran is the sharp end of a
wider diplomatic effort that has, in his words, seen Britain advance on the
world stage after years of retreat under Labour. When Mr Hague took over he
found a department demoralised and marginalised by Labour’s internal
disputes and its disdain for institutions. Rigorous diplomacy had been
replaced with a preoccupation for the management jargon of the human
resources industry. The Foreign Office was saddled with so many objectives
it was impossible to track them all. He boiled them down to three, which
amount to promoting the national interest wherever it may be. Mastery of
languages and the study of the skills of diplomacy have been returned to
favour. The department’s irreplaceable library of invaluable historical
documents, disgracefully thrown away and its shelves left bare under Labour,
is being slowly reconstituted. Savings on operations in London are being
used to open embassies in places such as El Salvador and consulates in
northern Brazil.
There is a sense of purpose about the place, epitomised by the energy Mr Hague
has put into the role. It helps that he is close to Mr Cameron, who has come
to rely on the advice of a political veteran who has long since given up
ambitions of leading the Conservative Party once again (although it is
noticeable how often that prospect is still discussed by admiring
backbenchers).
His other daily preoccupation is Syria. He has sent diplomats to the country’s
borders to collect information from refugees on human rights abuses for
when, as he expects, the Assad regime is made to account for its “terrible
crimes”. He says: “One of the things we want the regime to know is that
there could be a day of reckoning. It will not be forgotten. Documents will
be saved, memories will be recorded. Evidence will be there for the Syrian
people to use in future.”
Closer to home, he remains preoccupied by the developing crisis in the
eurozone, in particular in Greece. He reports that the contingency planning
for a possible collapse of the euro is complete: Britain is ready. The
detail remains secret, but he and the Chancellor remain in close contact to
map out what steps the Government would take in the event of British
citizens finding themselves stranded in a country where the banks have
collapsed and cashpoints have stopped working. “It is regularly refreshed
and brought up to date. I check on that very frequently. Contingency
planning is in full place for whatever may happen in eurozone.”
Yet while he voices sympathy for Greeks who find themselves facing economic
hardship, he points out they entered the euro voluntarily. “It’s not my job
to make things more difficult for the Greeks,” he says with a smile that
reveals how much this devoted opponent of the single currency enjoys being
proved right (in 1998 he warned that it would fail and there would be
rioting in the streets). “As you know, I’m a long-standing critic of the
euro. I said there would be riots on the streets, and here they are. I do
feel sympathy for Greek people caught up in this. For many of them it will
be no fault of their own, but it will also be the price of being in the
single currency. It is the choice that countries made when they joined the
euro.”
This is the voice of the “Save the Pound” William Hague Tories like to
remember. To those on the Right of the party who look to him to be more
robust in promoting Conservative interests in the Coalition, he points out
that the numbers don’t stack up. “It’s a coalition government: we always
have to remember that, we didn’t win a majority at the election.” He wants
his colleagues to keep their eye on the key elements of the Government’s
programme. “We are embarked on vital structural reforms in education and
welfare, which in the 2020s and 2030s will be seen as just as important as
the trade union reforms of the Thatcher government. Even if we didn’t do
anything else…those two things in education and welfare are really of
central importance to the country’s future.”
In the meantime, he will continue his mission to restore British diplomacy to
its full strength, one might even say its imperial glory. No doubt another
50 countries are being lined up for direct attention from the Foreigh
Secretary as he takes his message about Britain’s interests and openness
around the globe. “We are expanding our diplomacy. Everybody assumed for
decades that our footprint in the world was shrinking. But it’s not. It’s
growing.”
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