At a hustings in Rye on 3 June, where I am standing as an independent anti-corruption parliamentary candidate, a question was asked about law & order. Home Secretary Amber Rudd, in answering it referred to the Manchester terrorist attack. I took up the theme and referred to UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia & HSBC business there. She spoke to and handed a note to the chairman who removed the mic from me.
Jeremy Corbyn has an allotment, therefore I will be supporting him in this election. He’s currently growing a largish looking crop of sweetcorn. Anyone who has an allotment must be an alright sort.
David Cameron’s former strategy chief called for Theresa May to resign as he launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister’s record on terrorism.
Steve Hilton, who worked under the former Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, criticised Mrs May’s record on security after the third terror attack in Britain in 10 weeks.
Alluding to the PM’s time as Home Secretary between 2010 and 2016, Mr Hilton tweeted: “Theresa May responsible for security failures of London Bridge, Manchester, Westminster Bridge. Should be resigning not seeking re-election”.
Was it May that slashed the budgets of the security services? It’s a bit much for this guy to come out and say that when it was Cameron that made the cuts to the budgets.
What would Corbyn do? Would he say there is no need for security services? Corbyn seems very week on security issues.
Corbyn would take the guns off the few cops there are.
That’s the impression he gives and it is not what the British people want. They want someone who can make the hard decisions and for me Corbyn doesn’t seem to be that person.
True but it’s hard to believe May on this. Talk is cheap.
May is not much better than corbyn but I could see her making the harder decisions than corbyn. Corbyn just comes across as one of these people that no matter the urgency of the problem would still want to a week to decide what to do.
El Gato is a top cat as well.
Laziness is no bad thing in a politician. Corbyn would be eviscerated at the following GE I suspect, but he’d have diluted brexit extensively meantime, and actually a labour coalition may be the best thing for everyone.
He may of course enjoy the whip hand and brandish it like billyo. Who knows.
Can’t be trusted on security though.
The brits haven’t a clue what they want…that’s the whole problem. .
May was the Home Secretary who oversaw the cuts to police. She was warned by police what the effects of the cuts would be. Her response was to “stop scaremongering” and to stop “crying wolf”.
A Tory government she was part led the intervention in Libya which overthrew Gaddafi. That same government cultivated and enabled Islamist fighters to go to and from Libya. One of them was Salman Abedi.
May claims that police budgets have been protected sine 2015. That claim is a lie, according to the UK Statistics Authority.
The Tories are planning further cuts to police, while Labour are planning to reverse the cuts and add 10,000 new police officers.
Anybody who thinks May is more credible on national security issues than Corbyn is either ignorant or wilfully deluding themselves.
This is a good overview of the subject.
Real life Alan Partridge stuff from Tory MP for East Yorkshire, Greg Knight.
The music at the end is the best bit.
Well that was shit.
Danny DeVito is backing Jezza 