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December 18, 2004
Answering Hoon
The Scottish regiments have been consigned to history. In the Commons, Annabelle Ewing MP called the Minister of Defence a “back-stabbing coward”. Moderate language in the circumstances but against the rules, so Ms Ewing accompanied by her fellow SNP MPs walked out.
Hoon, probably the luckiest government minister not to have lost his job in this parliament, later commented: ” … Members of that party (the Scottish Nationalists) do not believe in membership of NATO, nor in European defence. They have opposed every deployment of British troops in recent years. I wonder what the point of having an army in the UK would be if that party ever got into any kind of power anywhere.”
Hoon may not be able to grasp this, but the SNP would like to see the Scottish Regiments deployed for peace keeping, and not used in support of operations involving the the killing of large numbers of foreign civilians - as at Fallujah.
news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1439652004
www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2004-12-16.1195.0
Posted by Simon Holledge at December 18, 2004 05:02 AM
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