{"id":1865,"date":"2010-07-27T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2010-07-27T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T14:33:57","slug":"1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Refreshing Foreign Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been dismissive of our foreign policy both under Miliband and\u00a0Hague. This maybe the point when I have to\u00a0change my tune.<\/p>\n

I am enormously impressed with Cameron’s outspoken encouragement for Turkey in its bid to join the E.U. and his recognition of\u00a0its importance as a westernised democratic Muslim power of the Middle East. His remarks were a slap in the face\u00a0for France which has long been critical of Turkey joining. His attack upon the Gaza blockade will have left Israel in no doubt that there is no free lunch for it in London and that Cameron will be a tough critic if it does not come forward to direct talks with a constructive, rather than its usual nihilist, agenda.<\/p>\n

All this en route to India with a giant entourage to forge a stronger alliance and build trade\u00a0with Asia’s emerging power, with which we have ties of\u00a0 culture, kith and kin. This is all very good and shows a bigger shift in the nuance of British foreign policy than commentators thus far have picked up.<\/p>\n

Where is William Hague?\u00a0 He is the invisible man of the coalition he helped to set up. Is he miffed at being displaced by Nick Clegg as the Number 2 in the government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Refreshing Foreign Policy I have been dismissive of our foreign policy both under Miliband and\u00a0Hague. This maybe the point when I have to\u00a0change my tune. I am enormously impressed with Cameron’s outspoken encouragement for Turkey in its bid to join the E.U. and his recognition of\u00a0its importance as a westernised democratic Muslim power of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}