Anything to Get Away From the Wives Eh?!

Although it's Tuesday (17/4/12) I've been to the gym leading to a long conversation about my lower back pain that has now been upgraded to a lower back injury. However I don't think it's really time to tell that story.

Throughout this British morning Parliament has been swirling with rumours that the Home Secretary (Ministry of the Interior) will be announcing that Britain intends to break off it's back channel negotiation with Jordan over Syria by deciding not to challenge a recent European Court of Human Rights ruling preventing the extradition of Al Qaeda hate cleric Abu Qatada back to his native Jordan. As a result Qatada would have remained in Britain on bail. Then at around mid-day Qatada decided to demonstrate that he has always been a British assest by leaving his house and breaking his bail conditions in front of an assembled mass of police officers, photographers and TV news crews. Funnily enough he has now been arrested and is currently (14:20GMT) in front of a special immigration court charged with breaking his bail conditions. The most likely outcome is that Britain will now break off it's back channel negotions with Jordan by defying the European Court of Human Rights much to the joy of Eurosceptic members of the Conservative Party.

I should also point out that in the codebook I am sometimes Abu Qatada. So on the day when Britain is casting me as right-wing anti-Islamic extremist Anders Behring Breivik they are also casting me as Al Qaeda hate cleric Abu Qatada. This is Britain's way of trying to announce to the world that Islamic extremism and anti-Islamic extremism are the sides of the same coin being manipulated by authoritarian governments across the world to justify taking away freedoms and human rights. I think this is also the point that the US TV show "Homeland" is trying to make in it's own long and slightly boring way.

Or to put it another way the British Monarchy has calculated that it's support for the Gulf Monarchy's as they brutally suppress uprisings in places like Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Bahrain while trying to overthrow the Syrian President may well have a significant negative impact on it's own reputation in this Jubilee and Olympic year. As a result they're now preparing to throw the Gulf Monarchy's under the proverbial bus. Or maybe they're just bluffing.

Feeling paranoid yet?