Former UN Deputy Secretary General and now newly minted UK Foreign Office Minister, Lord Malloch-Brown (what is it with Nu-Lab PMs littering the ranks of the not necessarily derserving high and mighty with namesakes?) is advocating the UK gives up it’s seat on the UN Security Council to the EU.
Nice to know the Foreign Office Minister has Parliament and the UK’s very best interests at heart then ;-)
After all, we can be 100% sure the EU would vote just the way we would want, in every set of circumstances, knowing how similarly the French and Germans see things to us, in all circumstances. Surely the French should be falling over themselves to give up their seat.
Day, Cold, Hell, In?
This was obviously in his master plan last October, while he was still the UN's Deputy Secretary General, when he advised EU diplomats in Brussels that the EU would eventually have single seat within the UN. "I think it will go in stages. We are going to see a growing spread of it institution by institution," He went on that he hoped it would happen "as quickly as possible. I'm a huge fan of it."
When confronted with this evidence the Foreign office argued that had made those comments before he was made a Government minister.
Oh well that’s all right then - So are they suggesting he lying then, to suit his words to what his audience wanted to hear - and does not still hold those views? Possibly quite a plausible argument when considering a politician’s words, but would you want to bet on it?
Or did his words reflect his true intentions and loyalties? If so where exactly are his primary loyalties?
With the UN or the EU?
Why would a PM who was loyal to parliament appoint someone like that?
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
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