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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
http://news.sky.com/story/1169049/sr...mil-protesters
He is supposed to be a man of integrity, yet he goes to a country where other world leaders have boycotted, due to human rights problems.
What is he trying to prove. Mr Cameron was confronted by people trying to tell him something, but as usual wasn't listening. He is tryin to prove a point, but l cannot see why he went there. 
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He is there because:
1. Gordon Brown agreed the venue in 2009.
2. Prince Charles will be there, representing the Queen. If our heir to the throne can go to Sri Lanka, so can our Prime Minister.
3. He is the Prime Minister, so he doesn't have the luxury of making cheap political gestures from the safety of a TV studio, like, for example, Douglas Alexander.
4. He has the statecraft and the personal strength to go to the Tamil North of the country, in the full knowledge that he was going to *seriously* tee off his hosts back in Colombo.
5. The Tamil people, many of whom did not take up arms against the government and did not ask to be bombed out of their homes as the war came to a bloody end, were really quite keen to see him, because his visit has given their grievances an international platform they would not otherwise have had.
Arthur, your mindless anti-Tory trolling on this forum is getting very tedious.