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"Mr President, on the day that our country has taken quite an unfair bashing in this Chamber, I take exception, on behalf of our armed forces, to Baroness Ashton’s use of the term ‘our’ when talking about them and the hardware.
I was in Afghanistan a few weeks ago and saw at first hand the great job the British forces are doing there, protecting civilians, confronting terror and building an infrastructure. It is British taxpayers who are footing the bill for the second largest contingent there, not Germans, Slovakians, Greeks, Luxembourgers, Portuguese, Italians, etc. Baroness Ashton, neither you nor any Member of this Chamber has a right to describe these forces or other Member States’ forces as EU forces. The UK forces owe on oath of allegiance to Her Majesty and her government, not the EU. As already stated by fellow UK colleagues, NATO is already in place and, as seen in Libya, is effective. If you cannot get unanimity on the euro, how on earth can you do so on complicated security issues?
One thing I have a real problem with, Baroness Ashton, is your part in this. As a former treasurer of CND, you are talking about security policy with nations that have nuclear weapons. How on earth can you provide an objective view on this? There was a colleague in this Chamber who mentioned a nuclear-free Europe. That must have been music to your ears. You are not competent for this position."@en1
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