There has been “far too much tolerance of extremism”
in the UK, Theresa May has
announced after the latest terrorist incident in London. So, whose fault is it
that there is too much tolerance of extremism in the UK? Who is in charge? Who
has been in charge for the last seven years?
Surprise, surprise, …
before she was made prime minister, between the years 2010 and 2016, Mrs. May
was Home Secretary, in charge of the police and of MI5, the internal secret
service. In these years, she cut the number of policemen by almost 47,000.
A bit of searching
reveals that Mrs. May, as Home Secretary, had two years ago, in March 2015, announced the launch of a package of new anti-terror measures. At the time, she warned of a ‘clash of civilizations’ between the West and Islamic
extremists, adding that there is ‘increasing evidence’ that a small but
significant number of people living in Britain ‘reject our values’.
Warning of
extremism seems to be part of that woman’s small-talk. But, it turns out that she is
not only nasty but also incompetent.
To please the
jingoistic press that she depends on, May now announced that she would step up the fight against Islamist terrorism yet again and
confirmed that she
approves of shoot-to-kill, replacing the previous policy of
shoot-to-incapacitate.
It is the Achilles Heel of her election campaign that as home secretary she cut the police force and MI5. She has cause to regret that.
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