Dictator and fascist.

Syria has written to the UN accepting the 6 point plan hatched by former UN Secretary General, Kofi Anan. The plan has also been accepted by Syria's backers, Russia and China. Under the plan there is to be a ceasefire and humanitarian assistance may be delivered to those in need. However, after accepting the plan Syria has resumed bombardment of Homs and things are much as they were before. Why is Syria behaving like this? Because its best friend, Iran has been playing this game for years. Iran agrees to talks about its nuclear ambitions without preconditions and then refuses any cooperation. It invites inspectors from the IAEA to verify its nuclear sites and then refuses entry to specific places. As each stage takes months of negotiations Iran has been able to string talks along for years while furiously enriching uranium. North Korea is also a master at this game. It carries out an extremely aggressive act such as bombing an island in South Korea and then demands food aid to restart dialogue. Western countries give in hoping each time that Pyongyang will reciprocate but each time they are left empty handed. The latest crisis has been caused by North Korea's intention to launch a satellite just after the US agreed to supply 240,000 tonnes of food aid. Pakistan does even better. It's intelligence agency, the ISI, trains and supplies arms to the Taliban to go and kill US and NATO soldiers. Pakistan then pleads helplessness unless supplied with more money and arms which the US gladly does. Meanwhile, our favorite upper class fascist, David Cameron has been caught telling a whopper. He claimed to have eaten a Cornish pastie at Leeds station after plans to levy a VAT of 20% on a heated pastie in the budget was seen as an attack on poor people's food. Sadly for Cameron the shop at Leeds station had shut down 5 years ago. His upper class buddy, George Osborne, who is also the Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible for the budget, did not help matters by withdrawing tax relief for pensioners. This has been labelled as a " granny tax " and the friends have been accused of being out of touch with the people. One minister, Francis Maude advised motorists to fill up their cars and store petrol in jerrycans before unions announced a truck drivers strike. This has caused enormous queues at petrol pumps, some pumps running dry and frayed tempers. While transferring petrol from a jerrycan into a jug to fill her daughter's car one woman caught fire and is even now in ICU with 40% burns. Cameron has not realised that you cannot eat a Cornish pastie with a $500 bottle of champagne. You have to shop a Tesco rather than Fortnum and Mason. Poor chap. It is hard being upper class.