Letters From A Tory

Dear David Miliband,

It was with great amusement that I watched Gordon Brown announce new plans for treating cancer patients last week, seeing as it was clearly the job of Health Secretary Alan Johnson to make such an announcement.  Alan Johnson was presumably instructed to take a back seat and hide behind Uncle Gordon and I suspect your orders today are to keep your mouth shut about the CIA destroying video tapes of interrogations involving terrorist suspects.

I wonder if you are naive enough to think that the Americans have only recently used torture to extract information from suspects.  To my mind, it is totally inconceivable that abominable practices were confined to one prison in Iraq and one detention centre in Cuba, although Guantanamo Bay was a focal point for a lot of criticism as the Americans evidently had a lot to hide - torture being a significant part of what they were carrying out.  Seeing as you don’t really like the Americans that much, I wonder whether you will fall in line and keep quiet or whether you might use this as an opportunity to attack the American government and CIA to knock their reputation?  My god, you must be tempted….

Yours sincerely,

A.Tory