Laos, Burma, Cheltenham Spa...Hague 動揺させるd on

By QUENTIN LETTS FOR THE DAILY MAIL

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Buy 株 in Ferrero-Rocher chocolate 減少（する）s. William Hague, Foreign 長官, ann ounced an 拡大 of the Foreign Office’s outposts 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the world ? at a time of departmental spending 削減（する）s.

Two new 副 high （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限s are to be opened in India (Hyderabad and Chandigarh). Another 60 staff are 存在 planned for our 外交の 押し進める in 中国.

Whizz: William Hague yesterday

Whizz: William Hague yesterday

Madagascar is 存在 ‘再開するd’, our 公使館 there having been の近くにd by the 労働 政府. I went to Madagascar once. It rained a lot. Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast in old money), South Sudan, Liberia, Somalia. Mr Hague 動揺させるd off these countries’ 指名するs, and more, like a 鉄道 駅／配置する superintendent 発表するing stops on the line. Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, north Brazil, El Salvador, Laos, Burma, Kemble Junction and Cheltenham Spa, first class accommodation に向かって the 後部 of the train.

All (with the exception of Kemble and Cheltenham) are to 利益 from an 増加するd 成果／努力 by Her Majesty’s plenipotentiaries, the lucky devils.

アイロンをかける the white linen 控訴s! Roll out the red carpet! Treble chota pegs all 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, Perkins!

Mr Hague was speaking in the big 審議 of the day: the 外務 part of the Queen’s Speech 審議. I must say, I had 推定する／予想するd him to use the 適切な時期 to dwell at length, even 排他的に, on the European 危機.

With the Greek political world frozen like a cheap laptop computer, and with the new French 大統領，／社長 長，率いるing to Germany for dicey 会談, events in Europe are surely at the 最高の，を越す of any 外務大臣’s mind at the moment.

Yet Mr Hague whizzed 急速な／放蕩な over that part of his 簡潔な／要約する. It reminded me of that old comedy sketch in which a 搭乗 school headmaster gives the boys their 週刊誌 talk and then, as he is leaving, says something like, ‘oh and by the way, Dibble, your father’s dead’. ‘The European 審議 about growth and 緊縮 has 強めるd in 最近の days,’ said Mr Hague. You can say that again.

Douglas Alexander, for 労働, was not impressed by the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of foreign 領土s soon to be clutched tighter to the Britannic bosom. He （刑事）被告 Mr Hague of ‘self-congratulation, schadenfreude and a hint of 皇室の delusion’. Mr Alexander （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that there was ‘戦略の shrinkage’ at the Foreign Office.

Accounts clerk: Douglas alexander

Accounts clerk: Douglas alexander

戦略の shrinkage? That’s what I tried to 達成する during Lent.

Mr Alexander is ? how can we put this? ? not one of the show-offs of the 労働 前線 （法廷の）裁判. He brings to his 義務s all the despatch, all the fervour, of an accounts clerk working through a fat ledger. Beside him sat his frontbench 同僚s John Spellar and Ivan 吊りくさび. Both had their chins low on their chests. I was not 納得させるd that Mr Spellar’s 注目する，もくろむs were open all the time.

Mr Alexander said that the Foreign Office did ‘not have a compass’. One hopes that is not true.

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Edward Leigh (反対／詐欺, Gainsborough) spoke up for the Christians of Syria and the 迫害 they are having to 耐える at 現在の. Mr Hague said that this was ‘the 最高の，を越す item in all our meeti ngs with Syrian 対立 groups’.

He 追加するd: ‘If the Syrian 政権 thinks it can 殺人 and 拷問 its way 支援する into favour with the Syrian people, it is mistaken.’ Denis MacShane (Ind, Rotherham) had an 利益／興味ing point about more Indians now visiting フラン than Britain, 恐らく because the British ビザ form has too many pages. （衆議院の）議長 Bercow made a sneery comment about Mr MacShane’s 介入 存在 too 非常に長い. It was not.

Mr Hague, in his 返答, said that there are 95,000 Chinese students in Britain, almost as many as in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.

Assiduously プロの／賛成の-政府 介入s kept 存在 made by Julian Sturdy (反対／詐欺, York Outer) and Alec Shelbrooke (反対／詐欺, Elmet & Rothwell). ‘Give ’im a 職業,’ someone shouted. Mr Shelbrooke, whose tummy is a magnificent, spherical edifice to growth, beamed at this.

As for the 拡張主義 at the Foreign Office, Mr Hague said it was far better than a ‘防御の kraut’. I say! Did he mean Angela Merkel? But I had misheard. He 現実に said ‘防御の crouch’.

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