‘Theresa May says enough is enough after seven die’ screams the BBC and the right handed rubber gloves (in a fist shape) we more accurately call our corporate media.
Enough is enough. Sounds like a song from the early 1970’s with some repetitive, inane backing track. Four days before one of the most important General Elections in many years Theresa May with Lynton and Rupert’s arms airbrushed out tells us that the counter terrorism strategy will be have to be reviewed.
Who is she talking to? Sun, Mail, Express, Telegraph, Times readers? Do they really believe this rubbish? Why wasn’t it reviewed before these atrocities? Why wait until now?
This is yet again a reactionary clueless government going no where fast.
Meanwhile back at the ranch the country continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia who are funding the same groups rampaging through our streets whilst the government reassures us that it will ‘keep our streets safer’.
Really? Who actually falls for this? Anyone? If you do then you should sue our government and the education system because you have not only been ripped off but some sort of labotomy has occurred of which you have no memory.
Let me help you out.
Walk up to a big bloke and pinch his arm really hard. Then slap his kids around the face. My money is on his response being the opposite of a big hug and a kiss on the chops. A Glaswegian kiss perhaps but not your everyday slobber.
Now imagine that you drop bombs on people, in their own country, and kill lots of people who have nothing to do with why you are dropping those bombs and they are poor. Do you suppose they hold a mardi gras or something else? Take your time.
The answer to this? Tell our governments to stop selling arms to people who sell them to people who then kill us. Let’s give it a go eh? Or just carry on doing what we always have and cross our fingers when we go outside and have to avoid being decapitated whilst listening to racist bigots blowing hot sticky air out of their backsides.
The choice is ours and it’s simple.
Douglas James
Trigger Warning: cheap party political points about terrorism
The Tories are great at selling arms to, and funding, terrorists, aren’t they? But they’re clearly really crap at fighting them. Basically.
I mean, if I ever needed someone to sell some guns and bombs for me to, say, a medieval barbaric regime, who funds and arms Islamic State, then I’d be like: “Yes, fam! Tories! I need Tories! Those guys *really* know how to get the job done.”
If, on the other hand, I wanted someone to *fight* terrorists; someone who *wouldn’t*, for example, recruit a fundamentalist nutter to fight Gaddaffi and then pay for his family to settle in the UK and then let his son go to terrorist training camps in Libya and then go on to bomb the Manchester Arena, then I’d look elsewhere.
But the Tory way is clearly better, apparently:-
Carry on creating hundreds of thousands of bereaved mums, dads, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, sons, daughters, just *ripe* in their demented grief, for turning by Wahhabist monsters.
Become the world’s second biggest arms dealer.
Keep Islamic State in bombs and guns, courtesy of our head-chopping, woman-stoning, gay-killing bezzie mates in Saudi Arabia.
Facilitate the training and funding of other terrorist nutters to fight our dirty wars and then run around screeching when it all blows up in our faces on the streets of Manchester and London.
Oh, and don’t forget to blame the bloke who *isn’t* Prime Minister because the one who is, is unfit for the job and has utterly failed to keep the people of this country safe.
Brilliant.
Genius.
Let’s keep doing it.
Sack the Tories on June 8th.
Harry Paterson
Amber Rudd Censorship of Arms sales to Saudi Arabia:
