Laugh all you like at Liz Truss. No, really, laugh all you like at Liz Truss. But when she became Prime Minister, then she was the longest-serving member of the Cabinet, having attended continuously for 10 years and under three Prime Ministers, under all of whom she had been a fully-fledged Cabinet Minister for eight years. A person who turns out to have thought that Britain had "Executive Orders". Will she now be appealing to Donald Trump to pardon Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and those in prison for their involvement in last year's riots?
At least Truss lost her seat. Twice Home Secretary, including as Rishi Sunak's first choice, Suella Braverman remains a Member of Parliament. But she is spending this parliamentary sitting week in the country from which she has still not returned after Trump's Inauguration. There, she is claiming that Britain might be taken over by Iranian-style anti-American Islamists, making it "the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons", and in 20 years' time "the greatest strategic threat to the United States". She has obviously never heard of Pakistan, which would account for her unawareness that most British Muslims were Sunni. The nerve centre of Sunni Islamism has the closest possible relations with the United States.
Yet neither Truss nor Braverman would have fallen foul of the Home Office's attempt, which it will bring back until it got its way, to broaden the definition of extremism. For that, then you would need to have supported the Gaza ceasefire that had now come to pass, or to subscribe to a "Far Left" including any policy other than Trident renewal or NATO membership that had been in the Labour manifesto of 2017 or 2019, or to purvey a "conspiracy theory" such as had been proved right in relation to Shrewsbury, Hillsborough, the Post Office, and contaminated blood, and such as will be proved right in relation to Orgreave, Grenfell Tower, spycops, and much else besides.
That would have caught the 90 per cent of the population that recognised the blatantly obvious about Iraq. With the age of consent in Iraq having been lowered to nine, and with the International Criminal Court having issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani over the abuse of women, then the problem is indisputably the supporters of the war in Iraq, of the war in Afghanistan, and of the war in Libya that brought back open air slave markets. We all know how Syria is already turning out. Though also based on a proven hoax, where is Prevent?
Yep, the Taliban weren't as bad the first time as they are now after 20 years of us. Saddam's Iraq won UN awards for women's education. Gaddafi's Libya had the highest per capita income in Africa. Isis is back doing what Isis does in Syria but now it's the government. We are not the extremists.
ReplyDeleteAnd we gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban, complete with a vast array of military equipment. We did a deal. If we had never gone to war with them, then they would long ago have collapsed, anyway.
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