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Treaty of Lisbon (No. 5)

No. My old scout leader had a great capacity for telling scary ghost stories around the camp fire, frightening the naive younger cubs, but amusing the informed and experienced. The right hon. Gentleman's speech fooled no one, especially when he was forced to admit that the Conservatives oppose every single measure on common foreign security policy in the treaty. A feature of our debates on the treaty has been that the Conservatives have sounded their opposition to everything with great tales of alarm. They have given warnings of doom, like a Dad's Army made up only of Private Frazers. Given our current position on European and foreign defence policies, the Conservatives are about as relevant and useful as Dad's Army—out of touch, not only with Europe, but with NATO and the United States of America.