COMMENT: Theresa May is right to say ‘enough is enough’
IT has happened again. As we knew it would. The third terror attack in Britain in three months has left seven dead and many injured. These were ordinary people enjoying a night out in a vibrant and attractive part of London.
May: We cannot pretend things can continue as they are
“It is time to say enough is enough,” said the Prime Minister echoing what so many will be thinking. We cannot continue to allow this carnage to take place. Of course we will “keep calm and carry on” as that Second World War slogan tells us. But this is not the Second World War.
Back then it was essential that the home front kept things running as smoothly as possible no matter what Hitler threw at us because we were supporting our forces fighting abroad.
That is not the case today. We, the British people, are the front line now. We need to take action against the enemy. There is no easy solution. It is very difficult to protect ourselves against terrorism.
But there is a growing hardening of resolve. Sensible people know that most decent Muslims are appalled too. And since the Manchester bombing two weeks ago many did speak out.
But we have now reached a stage where it is reasonable to demand that mosques, schools and community leaders actively discourage the kind of separatism that we see in places such as London’s Tower Hamlets where Sharia law is strong. Police may need new powers which will inevitably lead to cries of racism. That is unfortunate but, yes, enough is enough.
Surprisingly, given the events, security has not had much of an airing in the election campaign. In the final run-up to Thursday’s general election it should be at the top of the agenda
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Labour idiocy on Trident
SEUMAS MILNE, the Labour spin doctor, is said to be very clever. How strange therefore that he, like many “clever people”, has no understanding of the concept of nuclear deterrence.
An overheard phone call he made to his boss Jeremy Corbyn hours after last Friday’s edition of Question Time found the pair discussing Corbyn’s fumbling response to the Trident question.
“The whole discussion is surreal. No one has used nuclear weapons for 72 years”, scoffed the Labour leader’s henchman. That, Mr Milne, is the point. Nobody has used a nuclear weapon because deterrence (sometimes known as Mutually Assured Destruction) has worked.
“We need… to shut down the Trident question,” he added. Well that is just not good enough. Any prime minister who either does not understand or does not subscribe to the theory of deterrence is a danger to all of us.