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Points of Order: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights (13 Oct 2008)

Bruce George: ...than their ostensibly secular predecessors. They are certainly far less corrupt. Other examples are Indonesia, Malaysia and Morocco, which are trying hard. Algeria is fighting a war against terrorism and is also trying hard. I have visited Kuwait and other Gulf states, and I head a small non-governmental organisation that is helping capacity-build in the second Chamber of the Omani...

Walsall Council (7 Mar 2008) has video

Bruce George: ...heavy hand of the former leadership of the local authority and their loyal accomplices. His name, I later found out, was Mark Kemp. The reason he had disappeared from the radar screen was the sheer terror that he had experienced from unknown perpetrators, exacerbated by the usual suspects in the council to whom I have referred. If anything, his treatment was far worse than that of the...

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

Bruce George: ..., and countries with significant grievances. As I am sure other Members have pointed out, we face a new range of threats. There are environmental threats, and of course there is the growth of terrorism. We are having to deal with those new threats, but we may also face a recurrence of the old threats. It has been said that in an era in which we need forces that can be deployed rapidly, we...

Emergency Preparedness (19 Oct 2005)

Bruce George: ...model is not very appropriate for the United States, let alone the United Kingdom. Any Home Secretary is overburdened with a range of activities, one of which is contingency planning and counter-terrorism. The Defence Committee proposed that there should be a very senior Minister because, as has been pointed out forcefully, someone who operates in Cabinet as an observer at Minister of...

Emergency Preparedness (19 Oct 2005)

Bruce George: ...;I will not say greater—professionalism in dealing with these issues. The structures must be good not only on paper; we must be capable of deploying against a whole range of threats, be it terrorism or natural or other disasters. Such events have overtaken others and could overtake us. I hope that the regional and local structures that the new legislation provides will enable a...

Defence (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Bruce George: ...of Defence. Joined-up government is supposed to mean, and largely does mean, the involvement of a whole spectrum of Departments, and even policing and the private sector in considering acts of terrorism. It is inevitable that the debate will be dominated by Iraq. The decision to deploy is clearly important and has excited a great deal of comment. The Defence Committee has invited the...

Civil Contingencies Bill (19 Jan 2004)

Mr Bruce George: ...thank the hon. Gentleman for reminding me to emphasise it even more strongly. The new terrorist threats are more likely to involve an attack on the private sector. Statistics on patterns of global terrorism from the United States State Department prove that. If one wants further information, one need only look to the range of attacks on commercial buildings and entities such as those on...

Defence in the United Kingdom (11 Sep 2003)

Mr Bruce George: ...by way of homeland security. My Committee has mirrored that process, and in our reports we have criticised the Government for doing the wrong things. We have produced four reports: "The Threat from Terrorism" in December 2001, "Defence and Security in the UK" in July 2002, and "A New Chapter to the Strategic Defence Review" in May 2003; our most recent report concerned the draft civil...

Defence in the United Kingdom (11 Sep 2003)

Mr Bruce George: ...there be a crisis. I appeal to the Government to define the role of companies, heads of security and risk and consequence managers. As the State Department's recent report "Patterns of Global Terrorism" notes, business provides the overwhelming majority of targets for terrorist organisations. Far more than US embassies or military targets, business is being targeted. It would therefore be...

Defence in the United Kingdom (31 Oct 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...." That must be our common aim. The issue is arguably the most pressing that we face. We all know what terrorists can do and that, despite recent military and policing successes in dealing with terrorism, many terrorists are still out there, closer than we imagine. David Veness, whose experience in fighting terrorism is unrivalled, told the Defence Committee that terrorists would strike. I...

Defence in the United Kingdom (31 Oct 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...my hon. Friend some more of my writings if he wishes and has the patience, especially on history, in which we both have a great interest. This country did not attempt to deal with Irish republican terrorism campaigns by attacking their bases in the Republic of Ireland. Israeli attempts to destroy the bases of Palestinian terrorists have not so far been an unqualified success. I can see...

Defence in the United Kingdom (31 Oct 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...the Queen's Speech. So we will just have to wait. Except that on 9 September, the Government placed in the Library a progress report on the United Kingdom and the campaign against international terrorism. It is an interesting document which, regrettably, I suspect that few people have read because of its timing. At the end of the document, there is a list of the Government's priorities...

Defence in the United Kingdom (31 Oct 2002)

Mr Bruce George: .... I shall continue to urge the Government to take an active lead in pulling together all the many threads needed to co-ordinate our response to major emergencies, particularly those caused by terrorism, because that co-ordination is an essential element of any Government's first responsibility—the defence of the United Kingdom.

Armed Forces Personnel (11 Apr 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...within the ring of steel after the bombings in the City a few years ago? People had no hostility to that, because the days when a uniform—a red coat—sent shivers of anxiety and terror down people's backs have long since gone. The military are rightly held in the highest esteem. It is important that we sustain that positive assessment. It is no surprise to us to see United...

Afghanistan (20 Mar 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...present action in Afghanistan or the fate of Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda, we cannot expect to neutralize the new threats easily or quickly . . . This is not to say that the battle against global terrorism cannot be won; it can be and it must be. But it will not be won quickly, and it is likely that whatever success is achieved against al Qaeda itself, a number of groups associated with it...

Afghanistan (20 Mar 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...will have a rather different task. The Opposition's support is very welcome, and any differences that emerged were largely marginal. However, those of us who support deployment in the war against terrorism will continue to be accused of warmongering and imperialism—I was accused on the radio of being slightly racist—and of being stupid for not realising what others have...

Terrorism (7 Mar 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's fine gesture in forgoing his winding-up speech. I should certainly like to thank the Liaison Committee for agreeing to this snippet of a debate on the threat from terrorism. We in the Defence Committee have produced an excellent report, which deserves to be considered in a much longer debate. The events of 11 September shocked the world, and the effects...

Estimates Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2001-02 — Environmental Audit (7 Mar 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...Deputy Speaker. I have been sitting here for 20 minutes enthralled by this truly important subject. As Chairman of the Defence Committee, I point out that we have an equally important subject, terrorism, to discuss. I know that this is not strictly within your terms of reference, but may I, through you, implore my colleagues to take note that, if equity is to be taken into account, this...

Defence Policy (14 Feb 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ..., West (Mr. Swayne). I thank him for his brevity; he took 35 minutes, and with your approval, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall be equally brief. I also thank him for his compliments on our report on terrorism. I shall reciprocate by quoting an earlier Defence Committee report that was produced just after the strategic defence review. The hon. Gentleman's speech was not vitriolic and he did not...

Defence Policy (14 Feb 2002)

Mr Bruce George: ...the Ministry of Defence, but about intelligence services, police forces and local authorities, which are largely responsible for emergency planning. Mention was made of our report "Threat from Terrorism". What happened on 11 September was clearly very different from the terrorist acts of the past. It was appalling in terms of its scale and the evident determination to inflict mass...