More bloody Iraqi translators. Literally.

The campaign to ensure that Iraqi employees who have been employed by coalition forces have the opportunity to leave the country before they get killed rolls on.

They really need to think of a better title for the campaign but, as you know, I feel that there is a certain moral and legal obligation that the British government must address.

Dan Hardie has now sent around an update and a request for anybody who’s interested in supporting the campaign.  The short version follows below, and Dan has more talking points on his blog:

If you’ve already written to your MP, write or email him or her again: and this time, invite them to a speaker meeting at Parliament on the second day of the new session, Tuesday 9th October.

If you haven’t already written to your MP, please do so. You can find out about your MP here.  Outline what’s happening and why we should be concerned, ask them to contact the relevant Ministries (particularly the Home Office but also the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and also invite them to the meeting. Stress to MPs that mainstream print and TV journalists will be present: that is the kind of thing that tends, for some reason, to attract them. And stress that this is the first blog-based campaign in the UK: this is how politics is going, and they need to see what it looks like.

That last point interested me – I hadn’t thought about it in those terms.  To me it feels like the good old days at Amnesty, but with more RSI.  Unfortunately I probably won’t be in London on the 9th – something about a mountain and some guns – but I’ll be cheering from a distance.