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| Protest outside Russian Embassy would increase hysteria against Russia – Stop the War leader | Protest outside Russian Embassy would increase hysteria against Russia – Stop the War leader |
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| Britain’s Stop the War Coalition has rejected UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s call to stage protests outside the Russian Embassy in London, claiming the demonstrations would only contribute to the "hysteria" and “jingoism” against Russia. | Britain’s Stop the War Coalition has rejected UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s call to stage protests outside the Russian Embassy in London, claiming the demonstrations would only contribute to the "hysteria" and “jingoism” against Russia. |
| During an emergency House of Commons debate on Tuesday, Johnson criticised Britain’s “anti-war protest groups” for failing to hold demonstrations condemning Russian involvement in Syria, just as activists opposed Britain’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. | During an emergency House of Commons debate on Tuesday, Johnson criticised Britain’s “anti-war protest groups” for failing to hold demonstrations condemning Russian involvement in Syria, just as activists opposed Britain’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. |
| “There is no commensurate horror. It seems to me, amongst some of those anti-war protest groups. I’d certainly like to see demonstrations outside the Russian Embassy. Where is the Stop the War Coalition at the moment? Where are they?” Johnson asked. | |
| Rejecting the Foreign Secretary’s call, Stop the War vice chairman Chris Nineham told the BBC Radio 4 Today program on Wednesday: “The reason for that is our focus is on what our government is doing.” | |
| “There’s a very good reason for this, because we can make a difference to what Britain does, we can make a difference to what our allies do to a certain extent and we have done.” | “There’s a very good reason for this, because we can make a difference to what Britain does, we can make a difference to what our allies do to a certain extent and we have done.” |
| “But, if we have a protest outside the Russian Embassy, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference as to what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin does because we are in Britain and were are in the West.” | “But, if we have a protest outside the Russian Embassy, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference as to what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin does because we are in Britain and were are in the West.” |
| “And, not only that – a protest outside the Russian Embassy would actually contribute to increasing the hysteria and the jingoism that is being whipped up at the moment against Russia.” | “And, not only that – a protest outside the Russian Embassy would actually contribute to increasing the hysteria and the jingoism that is being whipped up at the moment against Russia.” |
| He added: “What we are saying is there is a hysteria which is being organised by politicians and the media against Russia to see Russia as the only problem in Syria.” | He added: “What we are saying is there is a hysteria which is being organised by politicians and the media against Russia to see Russia as the only problem in Syria.” |
| Nineham said the Foreign Secretary’s calls for demonstrations were “characteristically trivialising.” | Nineham said the Foreign Secretary’s calls for demonstrations were “characteristically trivialising.” |