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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 2 February 2012.

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Photo of Peter Bone Peter Bone Conservative, Wellingborough 10:30, 2 February 2012

Last Sunday I attended Indian republic day at the Wellingborough Hindu Association, yet the same week we learn that a £20 billion fighter contract has been lost to, of all people, the French. We now know that the lead bidder was not the British Prime Minister or the British Government, but the Germans. What on earth do they know about cricket and curries? Why was the British Government not leading on that? How did the Secretary of State allow such a cock-up?

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Richard Tobin
Posted on 3 Feb 2012 11:10 am (Report this annotation)

To look at the positive; that the French and Germans can win a £20 billion defence contract from India shows the EU does not now, these days, need the UK to conclude such business with our old commonwealth partners. So maybe the EU will be more confident to release us from the grasp of their new soviet; content in, at least, that knowledge. And we can then be free to prosper all the better outside of their false construct.