Results 1-20 of 77 for iraq speaker:Tony Baldry

Public Bill Committee: Law Commission Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 (8 Jul 2009)

Tony Baldry: ...I reply, “I don’t know. I must have voted for it or against it. Why do you ask?” He says, “Well, Dad, I’ve just been arrested under its terms for demonstrating against the Iraq war.” When I got the hon. Lady’s call I suddenly had a moment of horror: perhaps my son had started sending vexatious correspondence to his Member of Parliament and she wanted to...

Points of Order: Topical debate — Democratic Republic of the Congo (6 Nov 2008)

Tony Baldry: ...to enforce its military will. By the time we got to Darfur, however, countries with a sizeable lift capacity—in particular, the United Kingdom and the United States—were engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there just were not the countries with the kind of military lift capacity needed to enter Darfur. So we had a kind of dance where, first, the African Union said that it...

Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]: Burma (14 May 2008) has video

Tony Baldry: ..., however, for the international community to make it up, so to speak, as we go along. For example, Lord Hurd of Westwell, when he was Foreign Secretary, justifying the no-fly zones over northern Iraq in 1991, said that "we operate under international law. Not every action that a British Government or an American Government or a French Government takes has to be underwritten by a specific...

Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]: Burma (14 May 2008) has video

Tony Baldry: ...will have to return to how we ensure that the UN functions effectively and properly. All sorts of bits of reparation and repair work might have to be done. The whole matter of the UK, the US, the Iraq invasion and the coalition of the willing has done some damage, but, bluntly, the truth is that the Security Council, through no fault of the UK and its chairmanship, has not stepped up to...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (6 Nov 2007) has video

Tony Baldry: ...to be busy undermining existing hard-won rights and freedoms. That brings me to my last point. I am proud to represent the garrison at Bicester. Men from the Royal Logistic Corps have been serving in Afghanistan and Iraq and we are very proud of them. There is understandable concern that the compact between the armed forces and Government is being undermined by poor pay and poor...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Governance of Britain (25 Oct 2007) has video

Tony Baldry: Does the Lord Chancellor recognise that many hon. Members on both sides of the House would not have voted for the war on Iraq if they had known then what we know now? As we consider our war-making powers between now and the end of the consultation period in January, should the House not have an opportunity to debate how we can avoid collectively misdirecting ourselves again in that way, and...

Extraordinary Rendition (26 Jun 2007)

Tony Baldry: ...poets of the first world war, when asked what he was fighting for, picked up a chunk of English earth. It graphically described what he believed. I think that if one were to ask British soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan what they were fighting for, they would not do quite the same thing, but they would say that they thought they were fighting for freedom, liberty, the rule of law and...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Pay (21 Jun 2007)

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armed service personnel have received a tax-free bonus for service in (a) Iraq, (b) Afghanistan and (c) the Balkans since October 2006.

Bill Presented: Darfur (5 Jun 2007)

Tony Baldry: ...and killings there. We were able to do so largely because the UK had the necessary military capacity. One of the difficulties with Darfur was that the UK and the US found themselves so involved in Iraq that there was no question of military intervention in Darfur, even had that been thought to be the appropriate response. However, I cannot understand why the international community has not...

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Tony Baldry: ...to reinforce the British Army of the Rhine. That is no longer the ORBAT, or order of battle—that is no longer the case. Many men in the TA find after doing six months of active service in Iraq or Afghanistan that it is difficult for them to do another tour, for family or work reasons. There is a continuous haemorrhaging of personnel from the TA. What do the Government intend to do...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Armed Forces (Recruitment and Retention) (20 Mar 2007)

Tony Baldry: ...entitlement"; "I may never have kids, but I've had no money"; and "I thought I'd die. Now I can't afford hot water". The Sunday Times of the same date had the headline "MoD 'deserts' teen soldiers scarred by Iraq". It is a litany of neglect. It must have a corrosive effect. As my hon. Friend said, parents are loth to support their children if they express a wish to join the armed forces. I...

Darfur (28 Nov 2006)

Tony Baldry: ...-establishing security. We did so in Sierra Leone, and the French helped to do so in Ivory Coast. The problem with Sudan was that the United States and the United Kingdom were heavily committed in Iraq and elsewhere, and they certainly did not want to become involved militarily in another Muslim state—whether in north Africa or in the middle east. In an interesting book, "The New...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

Tony Baldry: ...his constituency. The hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) spoke for nearly half an hour. Not one of those Members practically has addressed any of the key issues of Afghanistan, Iraq and criminal justice. As my hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton (Mr. Taylor) said, this is groundhog day. It is a Government party hollowing out. This is going to be a strange...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

Tony Baldry: ...3 per cent. every year. We have to hope that Ministers will seize the opportunity presented by this consensus and will make the UK a world example in developing a low carbon economy. Apart from the Iraq war, the other defining characteristic of the Government has been repressive legislation. I suspect that future students of the Blair Government will see the Iraq war and repressive...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Afghanistan (17 Oct 2006)

Tony Baldry: There is a distinction to be made between Afghanistan and Iraq, and I wish to return to what the hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Flynn) said. Although I voted against the war in Iraq because I believed that it was against international law, I certainly supported our intervention in Afghanistan. It was in support of international law and various UN resolutions and at the behest of the...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Troop Deployment (Helmand Province) (21 Jun 2006)

Tony Baldry: ...military establishments, but they look after us extremely well. We were struck by the incredible work of the RAF in heavy lift. It has few heavy transport planes, which it is having to use in both Iraq and Afghanistan, working 24/7. It is a phenomenal task and the people involved do it incredibly well. We were also struck by the professionalism of our forces in Kabul. What a contrast we...

Torture and Rendition (Government Policy) (15 Feb 2006)

Tony Baldry: ...department. They cannot be insensitive to the fact that Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 24 interrogation techniques for use at Guantanamo Bay. In an article entitled "US Abuse of Iraqi Detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison" in the American Journal of International Law, Tom Farrer observes that the techniques are aimed at "significantly increasing the fear level in a detainee" and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Constitutional Affairs: Judges' Statements (18 Oct 2005)

Tony Baldry: ...judge to express concern about new legislation—for example, the proposal to lock up people without charge for up to six months? Is it not sad that the Government's lasting legacy will be the Iraq war and repressive legislation?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan/Iraq (4 Jul 2005)

Tony Baldry: Is there not a growing conundrum for British forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq, in that non-governmental organisations and international agencies look to them for their security and safety, yet simultaneously are concerned about being identified with British forces lest they be seen as part of the occupying forces generally? How do the Minister, the Secretary of State and the Ministry of...

Armed Forces Personnel (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...Defence Committee report late last year on the defence White Paper. It brilliantly summed up the paradox in which the Ministry of Defence finds itself. It states: "As the post-conflict stage in Iraq has shown, a great deal more is required to achieve the objectives of an effects-based operation than advanced military technologies in the hands of numerically small forces." In other words, a...