He used it to prove a point. I understood it as "I am proud of Tim B-L, and what he brought us. Let us be proud British, and not bloody asses, and stop this disclaimer non-sense."
To avoid appearing as the stereotypical grumpy ol' luddite. It's just a rhetorical device: "hey, I love the internet like the next guy, but...".
Politicians often use codified sentences as shorthand for concepts that are already well-understood by the rest of the House; some are more creative than others.
