There were Privy Council briefings for Jeremy Corbyn on security issues under David Cameron and Theresa May.
Boris Johnson is refusing one on Iran because MI6 has told him straight that there was no "imminent attack", and that in fact General Soleimani had been in Baghdad at the Iraqi Government's invitation as part of a peace mission, so that his murder was the war crime of perfidy, as well as damaging, perhaps irreparably, the fight against IS.
Unconsulted despite the significant British presence on the ground, MI6 probably wants the world to know that. As, no doubt, does Johnson. But he wants to be the one to tell us, and, since he is the Prime Minister, that is not unreasonable. So he is not confirming it to Corbyn, who would work it into a Prime Minister's Question and steal his thunder.
Unconsulted despite the significant British presence on the ground, MI6 probably wants the world to know that. As, no doubt, does Johnson. But he wants to be the one to tell us, and, since he is the Prime Minister, that is not unreasonable. So he is not confirming it to Corbyn, who would work it into a Prime Minister's Question and steal his thunder.
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Soleimani has killed British as well as hundreds of Americans. His death was a deliverance.
ReplyDeleteAnd today we know that plane, on which several British nationals died, was downed by Iran.
And look how much fuss we are making about that. None. Start a war, and these things happen.
DeleteWhich Britons, exactly, did he ever kill? IS's own weekly newspaper carries an editorial declaring that IS had been "trying for years to cut of the heads" of him and al-Muhandis, but now Allah had used the United States to do it for them.