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Hapless and hopeless Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, chairing the United Nations Security Council's first debate on climate change, got a roasting from China, Russia and leading developing nations when she spouted, no doubt in her usual supercillious and pompous manner, that climate change posed a threat to world peace, making it a fit subject for the 15-nation Security Council.

"Our responsibility in this council is to maintain international peace and security, including the prevention of conflict. An unstable climate will axacerbate some of the core drivers of conflict such as migratory pressures and competition for resources," she said.

Russian UN Ambassador Vitali Churkin advised Beckett to "avoid panicking and over-dramatising the situation."

Impossible advice for New Labour's Beckett to take to heart, when the racking up of a constant state of fear appears to be key government policy, along with ever more tax rises disguised as 'green' policy.

Perhaps Beckett's sudden concern with conflict in the world would be more convincing if she was not a minister in a government already embroyled in two preemptive wars, at least one of which is clearly illegal, and if she was not the Foreign Secretary who stayed silent for so long as Israeli troops and aircraft pounded the citizens of Lebanon last year.





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Labels: Climate Change, NuLab, Politics, UN, War