The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
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Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game.
I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.
It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.
The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.
The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.
For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.
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