Quaking In His Boots

With Morgan Tsvangirai out of the running for the Zimbabwean Presidency, our utterly incompetent Foreign Secretary, David Miliband along with the Queen have said that the soon to be ‘re-elected’ Robert Mugabe will be stripped of his Knighthood.

Such a strong, decisive and well thought out act on the part of our Monarch, Ministers and Government will no doubt leave Mugabe quaking in his boots when he hears he’s lost his title as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Not.

If this rather pathetic and purely symbolic act is the best our Government can muster then Mr Mugabe has little to worry about, while the people of Zimbabwe still have much to fear.

Gordon Brown talks of wanting to see an end to violence in Zimbabwe and a peaceful transition to democracy – but this will not happen unless Mugabe is forced in some way to listen. Since African leaders have failed to strongly condemn President Mugabe’s terrible and oppressive regime; unless a western nation chooses to step in and take action then the suffering of the Zimbabwean people is only set to continue.