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UK 'should give up UN seat' says Malloch-Clown
2007-08-07
The United Kingdom should lose its independent voice at the United Nations and hand over its seat on the Security Council to the EU, according to the new Foreign Office Minister, Lord Malloch-Brown.

Last October, when Lord Malloch-Brown was the UN's deputy secretary general, he told EU diplomats in Brussels that the EU was heading towards one single seat within the UN institutions. "I think it will go in stages. We are going to see a growing spread of it institution by institution," he was reported as saying. Lord Malloch-Brown said he hoped it would happen "as quickly as possible. I'm a huge fan of it."

William Hague, the Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, said it was "alarming" that Mr Brown had chosen to put in charge of UN reform "the man who thinks we should give up our UN Security Council seat to the EU." Downing Street said there was "no question of Britain giving up its seat". The Foreign Office said Lord Malloch-Brown had made the comments before he was made a Government minister.
Posted by:ryuge

#12  "Let Texas have it."

Yeah, right Sea. Something tells me we wouldn't want it.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2007-08-07 18:32  

#11  I'm sitting here watching the UN become the "one world government" that the lefty nutjobs are always pissing and moaning about. The irony is that they couldn't be happier about it.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-08-07 10:20  

#10  Old News?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-08-07 10:13  

#9  Notice, no comment from Malloch-Brown about the French giving up their seat.
Posted by: Steve White   2007-08-07 10:02  

#8  While I'd prefer shutting down the UN, or at least relocating it to ZimBobWay, given the EUssr I think the proper move is to throw ALL EUssr states out entirely.

Give them 1 seat in the GA and 1 on the SC and then add either Japan or India to the SC.

That would certainly twist a few Chinese beards.
Posted by: AlanC   2007-08-07 08:56  

#7  Glenmore and Nat'l Law nail it. Give up ye seat and close the stinking hell-hole down. Nothing but grief ("Palestine"), misery and rape (Sudan), dictator-induced famines (Zimbobwe) and eternal skirmishes (Iraq, the Koreas, Somalia, Bosnia, etc.) occur wherever the UN sticks its nose in. Shut 'er down, pack her up and move to Brussels, ya creeps.
Posted by: BA   2007-08-07 08:21  

#6  Turn out the lights at Turtle Bay, the party's over...
Let the Wanker's Club move someplace else.
Posted by: Spot   2007-08-07 08:19  

#5  Maliki-Brown does not believe that Britain is no longer an exceptional nation. And if he and Bean Brain Brown are allowed to stay in office, they may be correct. It is a very sad thing to see. I still have the pink globe of my youth and shake my head at the results of today's rainbow.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-08-07 08:01  

#4  Close the U.N.
Posted by: Natural Law   2007-08-07 08:00  

#3  Maliki-Brown must want GB to be able to avoid ANY responsibility for UN actions, since only the SC really means anything.
Perhaps he's right - get rid of the SC altogether and then ignore the UN entirely.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-08-07 07:53  

#2  Let Texas have it.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-08-07 01:53  

#1  Take away the Frog's instead.
Posted by: Squinty Chusoque4983   2007-08-07 01:51  

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