Paul Flynn
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(12 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Speaker
As usual, there is a lot of interest. I am keen to accommodate that interest, but we do now require extreme brevity—not preamble, but short, single-sentence questions, please.
Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab)
As the person who perpetrated the terrible atrocities in Toulouse claims to be a former al-Qaeda bomber who escaped with 500 others from Kandahar prison with the collusion of Karzai and his army and jailers, may we now debate why we tell our brave soldiers to dismantle bombs? The only reason is so that the perpetrators can be identified and jailed. As that is now a futile occupation, because the perpetrators escape almost at will, should we not debate the issue now and allow our soldiers to destroy bombs at distance?
Mr Speaker
I think that sentence contained a lot of commas and semi-colons, but I do not recommend that it be imitated by other colleagues.