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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office – Home Secretary – I would like to add my welcome to you and my recognition of the enormously difficult challenges you face. We support your emphasis on the need for implementation of effective practical measures and better international collaboration, but I have a cautionary word: I feel sure there are some useful contributions that the EU can make in the fight against terrorism, but it has a nasty habit of merely seeking to extend its own powers on the back of a crisis and not necessarily doing anything of real practical value. I trust your antennae are sensitive to this tendency.
I am the last to imagine that terrorism will be defeated merely by more intensive security measures. It has to be fought by every means, politically, diplomatically, financially, through the engagement of the communities from which terrorists draw their support, through sensible media coverage and through the education of public opinion. To date, we have not been very good at any of these. But before involving the European Union, Mr President-in-Office, let us put our own house in order. We have constituents from East Anglia, from Cambridgeshire, in the Parliament here today and, like me, they wonder when the Government is going to appoint a minister for homeland security. And it might not be a bad idea if we were to secure the borders more effectively in the United Kingdom.
We are not hamstrung by compliance with the Schengen Agreement, yet we have no idea who enters or leaves our country and at least half a million illegal immigrants should not be there in the first place. We needed the Pakistan authorities to tell us that the London suicide bombers had been to Pakistan and probably on to Afghanistan, where they underwent terrorist indoctrination and training. We know that the protections of our free society have consistently been abused by extremists who live in Britain while supporting, financing and recruiting for a host of well-known terrorist organisations. No wonder London is widely dubbed 'Londonistan'.
UK-based organisations which support terrorism in Britain or abroad must be closed down. May I just say how appalled I was at the view expressed by Mr Watson, the Liberal leader, that terrorists have the same human rights as their victims. Mr President-in-Office, you have a lot to do. You have our support for robust, effective and proportionate measures."@en1
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