Chris Brooke is surprised that David Miliband would abandon those Iraqis who used to work for the British forces so quickly, when he himself is the son of a refugee:
It seems to me extraordinary that the Foreign Secretary, whose father escaped from Ostend on the last boat to leave for England in May 1940 and was granted refugee status while at sea, should sign his name to a document arbitrarily abandoning some of the Iraqis whom we employed in and around Basra to the tender mercies of the Shi’ite death squads, and to whom we can easily offer sanctuary, just because they were employed for less than a year. That’s pretty disgraceful, and I expected better from Ralph Miliband’s son.
I don’t know though. Isn’t pulling up the ladder after you’ve climbed it not standard New Labour policy?