Why enter British politics if you believe that? Baroness Nicholson is a former director of Save the Children, a former EU parliament's human rights committee member, she chairs an APPG againt human trafficking and she has done much more for charity. Nothing in common, eh?
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Yeah, but has she been in EastEnders? And, um, well that’s it isn’t it?
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Replying to @Shatterface @megawhelmed and
She dragged the UK into the Iraq War you goddamn fucks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
A couple of things Arthur firstly where is your manners? Calling people abusive names is not polite and also I know your American but who is she, the cats mother? Its Baroness Nicholson to you and I didn't know she single handedly dragged us into the Iraq War.
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Replying to @IamCassieCurtis @Shatterface and
It is not "Baroness Nicholson" to me and it never will be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IamCassieCurtis and
She has spent her entire career advocating for women and children all over the world. Whereas you just talk on Twitter. I know who I will give credit and respect to.
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Replying to @FrancesLumsden @IamCassieCurtis and
Really? Because the portion of her career when she was Trade Envoy to Iraq didn't contain much advocacy for women and children, as opposed to advocacy for UK-based private contractorshttps://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/26/the-curious-case-of-the-baroness-of-winterbourne/ …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FrancesLumsden and
Interesting that you've chosen to share an article which looks at her involvement from both sides. I find the rebuttal of the first pov quite interesting. I was totally against the war on Iraq at the time, and think it was a disaster. In my view TB should be on trial in the /
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Replying to @TiaTracey2 @arthur_affect and
Hague. We should never have gone to war in Iraq, it is a stain on our history. But I can accept that a lot of those who voted for it thought they were doing the right thing. (Not Tony Blair, Jack Straw, or anyone involves in the dodgy dossier.) Even if you choose to be skeptical
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Replying to @TiaTracey2 @FrancesLumsden and
I don't read this article as both-sides-ing Nicholson's hawkishness, I think it brings up her noble-sounding speeches about taking down Saddam for the sake of human rights to contrast them with her actions as Trade Envoy, when she completely ignored the issue of human rights
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The fact that she went to Iraq while the ISIS insurgency was plunging the country into chaos and her big concern was lucrative business opportunities for UK contractors says it all
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