David Cameron faced down accusations yesterday that he was ignoring bread-and-butter issues as he set off on a two-day visit to Rwanda to champion the Conservatives' emphasis on international development.
Aides said the Tory leader was relaxed about signs of renewed strife in the party's ranks after two byelection defeats and a run of negative polls. The latest, by YouGov for yesterday's Sunday Times, put Labour seven points ahead.
But at least two, and perhaps as many as six, unnamed MPs have written to Sir Michael Spicer, chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, urging a vote of no confidence, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Though the chances of such a motion being tabled are unlikely - 29 names are needed to force a vote - it was reinforced by attacks from the former home office minister Ann Widdecombe and David Davies, the MP for Monmouth, who urged him to concentrate on crime and immigration. Ms Widdecombe said: "He has been very successful in getting support from people who previously would not have looked at us. But he must now pay a great deal of attention to shoring up our traditional vote."
The party's leadership believes aid is a key issue. In an interview for Sky News, Mr Cameron said: "What we are not going to do is retreat to the comfort zone. I made changes to the Conservative party over the last 18 months for a very clear purpose - to get us back into the centre ground, to get us into a position where people would listen to what we were saying, where we were in touch with Britain as it is today, talking about the things people care about. I am proud of the fact that we are the greatest aid donor to Rwanda."
He said the Tories' visit was "a damn good thing for an opposition to do".
Mr Cameron will be greeted in Rwanda by 43 Conservatives, including MPs, candidates, councillors, and public servants, who are spending a fortnight working on small aid projects designed and organised by Andrew Mitchell, the shadow international development secretary.
Mr Cameron will welcome the report by the party's policy group on globalisation and global poverty, advised by Bob Geldof and chaired by the former social security secretary Peter Lilley, to be launched tomorrow. "In the 21st century extreme poverty is not only a preventable economic absurdity but a moral disgrace," Mr Lilley will say.
The report will call on wealthy countries to decide which will take the lead in monitoring how aid funds are spent in each country. The plan will involve a "global donor index" that names and shames countries which tie up their aid in red tape or create grand schemes for their own benefit.
Yesterday Mr Mitchell, speaking of events back home, condemned "the gutless wittering of unnamed colleagues", behind the calls for a no-confidence vote.
David Mundell, the shadow Scotland secretary, said the "tea-room chatter" seemed irrelevant in a country such as Rwanda. "If some of our colleagues concentrated on the important issues both at home and internationally and less on the internal machinations of the party, they'd be doing the party and the country a service," he said. "It's the same people who have been grumbling for 20 years."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/jul/23/conservatives.politics
The dictator Kagame at UN
Dictators like Kagame who have changed their national constitutions to remain indefinitely on power should not be involved in UN high level and global activities including chairing UN meetings
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Thousands of Hutu murdered by Kagame inside Rwanda, e.g. Kibeho massacres
Kagame killed 200,000 Hutus from all regions of the country, the elderly and children who were left by their relatives, the disabled were burned alive. Other thousands of people were killed in several camps of displaced persons including Kibeho camp. All these war crimes remain unpunished.The British news reporters were accompanying Kagame’s fighters on day-by-day basis and witnessed these massacres, but they never reported on this.
25,000 Hutu bodies floated down River Akagera into Lake Victoria in Uganda.
The British irrational, extremist, partisan,biased, one-sided media and politicians have disregarded Kagame war crimes e.g. the Kibeho camp massacres, massacres of innocents Hutu refugees in DR. Congo. The British media have been supporting Kagame since he invaded Rwanda by organising the propaganda against the French over the Rwandan genocide, suppressing the truth about the genocide and promoting the impunity of Kagame and his cronies in the African Great Lakes Region. For the British, Rwanda does not need democracy, Rwanda is the African Israel; and Kagame and his guerilla fighters are heroes.The extremist British news reporters including Fergal Keane, Chris Simpson, Chris McGreal, Mark Doyle, etc. continue to hate the Hutus communities and to polarise the Rwandan society.
Kagame political ambitions triggered the genocide.
Kagame’s guerrilla war was aimed at accessing to power at any cost. He rejected all attempts and advice that could stop his military adventures including the cease-fire, political negotiations and cohabitation, and UN peacekeeping interventions. He ignored all warnings that could have helped him to manage the war without tragic consequences. Either you supported Kagame’ s wars and you are now his friend, or you were against his wars and you are his enemy. Therefore, Kagame as the Rwandan strong man now, you have to apologise to him for having been against his war and condemned his war crimes, or accept to be labelled as having been involved in the genocide. All key Kagame’s fighters who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity are the ones who hold key positions in Rwandan army and government for the last 15 years. They continue to be supported and advised by the British including Tony Blair, Andrew Mitchell MP, and the British army senior officials.
Aid that kills: The British Budget Support financed Museveni and Kagame’s wars in Rwanda and DRC.
Genocide propaganda and fabrications are used by the so-called British scholars, news reporters and investigative journalists to promote their CVs and to get income out of the genocide through the selling of their books, providing testimonies against the French, access to consultancy contracts from the UN and Kagame, and participation in conferences and lectures in Rwanda, UK and internationally about genocide. Genocide propaganda has become a lucrative business for Kagame and the British. Anyone who condemned or did not support Kagame’s war is now in jail in Rwanda under the gacaca courts system suuported by British tax payer's money, or his/she is on arrest warrant if he/she managed to flee the Kagame’s regime. Others have fled the country and are still fleeing now. Many others Rwandans are being persecuted in their own country. Kagame is waiting indefinitely for the apologies from other players who warn him or who wanted to help to ensure that political negotiations take place between Kagame and the former government he was fighting against. Britain continues to supply foreign aid to Kagame and his cronies with media reports highlighting economic successes of Rwanda. Such reports are flawed and are aimed at misleading the British public to justify the use of British taxpayers’ money. Kagame and his cronies continue to milk British taxpayers’ money under the British budget support. This started from 1986 through the British budget support to Uganda until now.
Dictator Kagame: No remorse for his unwise actions and ambitions that led to the Rwandan genocide.
No apologies yet to the Rwandan people. The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana by Kagame was the only gateway for Kagame to access power in Rwanda. The British media, politicians, and the so-called British scholars took the role of obstructing the search for the truth and justice; and of denying this assassination on behalf of General Kagame. General Paul Kagame has been obliging the whole world to apologise for his mistakes and war crimes. The UK’s way to apologise has been pumping massive aid into Rwanda's crony government and parliement; and supporting Kagame though media campaigns.
Fanatical, partisan, suspicious, childish and fawning relations between UK and Kagame
Kagame receives the British massive aid through the budget support, British excessive consultancy, sector wide programmes, the Tutsi-dominated parliament, British and Tutsi-owned NGOs; for political, economic and English language expansion to Rwanda. The British aid to Rwanda is not for all Rwandans. It is for Kagame himself and his Tutsi cronies.
Paul Kagame' actvities as former rebel
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