"The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility."
There is no meaningful distinction between that and the people to whom Donald Trump paid court on Sunday.
Theresa May and Boris Johnson refuse to rule out intervening on its behalf in Syria, even while purporting to fight it in Iraq, a border that it has rendered meaningless.
But Jeremy Corbyn does rule that out, and he is a longstanding enemy of its Saudi mothership.
"The General Election campaign has been suspended," indeed.
Watch out for the blah blah blah-ing about Corbyn and the IRA.
ReplyDeleteThey have been trying that one for two years. It has no currency. As for Hamas and Hezbollah, how many people in Britain have ever even heard of them? Hezbollah, moreover, is in the front line against IS. The Christians in the north of Lebanon pray for them openly as "the brothers in the South".
DeleteWait for a speech from the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell in the London Labour Briefing, saying the ISIS suicide-bomber ought to be "honoured."
ReplyDeleteIf he doesn't, isn't he being rather inconsistent, since that's what he said when the IRA was bombing British pubs?
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah.
DeleteEven in Manchester, they do not even seem to remember that the IRA ever existed. Call that a good thing, or call it a bad thing, but it does seem to be a fact.
They'll be off about the Falklands next. Nobody cares. They care that Theresa May wants to take their houses away from their children.
DeleteThe paper you write for, The Word, predicted a "terrorist attack" at this stage in the Election campaign two weeks ago.
Indeed, it did.
DeleteThere has been the most desperate attempt by, bluntly, the people who lost the war in Northern Ireland, to make this Election about all of that. It has entirely failed to take off.
Those who are going on about Northern Ireland a generation later are those who just gave up and went home in the end, leaving Martin McGuinness to it. It turned out that even Ian Paisley preferred him to the Brits, once they got to know each other. No British Government ever really had any genuine desire for that war. No British Prime Minister has ever really felt any affinity with Northern Ireland.
They care that Theresa May wants to take their houses away from their children.
ReplyDeleteNo, she doesn't. Somebody had to face up to the looming social care crisis as 2 million more people enter retirement in the coming years, though.
That's what adult parties do.
As opposed to childish socialist parties that offer everyone "free" everything.
Even to the point of telling rich and middle-class students don't have to pay tuition fees, as the 80% of adults who never got the chance to study at University will be forced to pick up the bill instead.
That's the teenage world of the Corbynistas.
It is not teenagers who expect everything free. It is Baby Boomers. And they get it. In case you failed to notice, Theresa May tore up her manifesto's headline policy on social care yesterday. It had brought her to the brink of losing a General Election to Jeremy Corbyn on the votes, not of teenagers, few of whom can vote and very few of whom do so, but of the old, who can vote and who do vote.
DeleteAs Peter Oborne writes, immense respect is due to the Tories for the fact that they are prepared to face up to our looming social care crisis, unlike the childish Corbynistas offering "free" University to rich and middle-class students paid for by people who went straight to work and never went to Uni.
ReplyDeleteBecause that's just so fair, isn't it?
It wouldn't be my choice of priority. Watch out for it from Theresa May, though, at least if she thinks that there might be votes in it. Yesterday, she tore up her headline policy on social care completely.
DeleteMaria Gatland, Anonymous. Look her up.
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