Bye bye Mubarak

Mubarak has finally gone. but control now rests with the army council. Now what for Egypt?' Ideally free and fair elections as soon as possible. I only hope that the army does not get a taste for political power,,,,

Where will the protest go next? Yemen? Jordan? Syria? Algeria? We will know soon enough...Source URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/Egypt
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George Galloway SS*: Soi-disant Egypt Expert

I know this is a bit late (thanks patellar tendon!) but George Galloway SS* is a tad peeved.

In his Daily Record self adoration piece last week (for anyone else that would be a column) he bemoaned the fact that nobody was asking his opinion about the current situation in Egypt

Don't you think it's a little strange? All the television and newspapers who covered my deportation from Egypt last year…. have completely ignored me during these, the last days of the tyrant's power.

He goes on to announce that he is viewed as almost god-like in Egypt with powers of clairvoyance that puts Nostradamus to shame:

I am the most popular British person in Egypt the man who knew about the imminent downfall of Mubarak. (okay perhaps I exaggerate but you get the drift)

Yet, I have not been interviewed or asked for a comment once by the lamestream media as the Egyptian masses poured on to the streets in their millions.

Hmm perhaps it is because you are a self-aggandising arsehole who will kiss the arse of just about any tyrant just so long as they are anti-American. I wonder if this is why the media hasn’t considered him their first choice as pundit.

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I know I have been silent on recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, partly because I have been preoccupied but mainly because there are plenty of people out there who can analyse the state affairs much better than I ever could.

The turn on events has come as a huge surprise to me. Who would have thought that the self immolation of a street vendor not much more than a month ago could have precipitated all of this? I don’t believe that this has been orchestrated by the West regardless of the Telegraph’s revelation . Nor do I believe that they are an Islamist front.

The protests appear to be the release of a hell of a lot of pent up anger, be it unemployment, spiralling food prices, anger with corrupt and repressive leaderships/Sometimes all it takes is a single spark to light the fires of anger. Mohamed Bouazizi seems to have ben just that spark (apologies if the metaphor is inappropriate given his form of protest).

Where will this end up? Who knows. I hope to hell that it leads to better things for millions of people who people who deserve so much.

There is a serious risk that fundamentalists like the Muslim Brotherhood could hijack the protests. That is something that will be, to say the least, unwelcome (a huge understatement!). But this by no means inevitable.

We can only see what happens. This is for the people of Tunisia and Egypt (and, and, and) to sort. Here's hoping that it leads to better things for them.Source URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/Egypt
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