Current Affairs 2017 General Election
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davek
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The LP need to drop everything else and hammer this up to polling day. They weren't shy of pointing out cuts after Manchester and I dont think they will be after this either.
They need to go for it now and to hell with the niceties. This government's actions are killing innocent Britons up and down the country. Just tell that obvious truth and let the public decide whether it's 'crass' or spot on.
No I just don't think our foreign policy is the root cause. I think these types would attack us more regardless of what we do. Most of them seem UK born too.
Think we're just gonna have to be a bit tougher in locking people up who we know are related to jihad.
Clint Planet
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Yeah, that'll make them think twice and back off. And if you don't think foreign policy is a part of it then you're an utter fool.
Call me a fool then cause I ain't buying the "it's all our own fault" rhetoric.
All we did was exacerbate the problem. We didn't create it.
roydo
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ashwuk76
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Our foreign has contributed to the current tensions massively. Bombing countries and then walking away and not helping them rebuild has made people resent us, specially as all we want is oil.. so yes successful governments have been at fault. And selling arms to foreign countries who find terrorism haven't helped.
roydo
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Might want to edit that. I think.
ashwuk76
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One little word lol thank you
roydo
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Maybe 2?
Clint Planet
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Jeremy Corbyn accuses Theresa May of trying to 'protect the public on the cheap' over police cuts
Jeremy Corbyn has accused Theresa May of trying to "protect the public on the cheap" by cutting police numbers – just hours after terrorists killed seven people in the heart of London.
Restarting Labour's election campaign after a brief pause following the atrocity, Mr Corbyn also attacked the Government over its close ties to Saudi Arabia "and other Gulf states that have funded and fuelled extremist ideology".
The Labour leader said he would take "whatever action is necessary" to protect the public from terror if he is elected Prime Minister on Thursday and made clear his backing for the shoot-to-kill policy which saw the three terrorists shot dead by armed police in Borough Market.
It was the third attack in Britain in less than three months – after a suicide bomber in Manchester killed 22 concert goers last month and another terrorist killed five in Westminster in March.
At a speech in Carlisle tonight, Mr Corbyn said: "You cannot protect the public on the cheap. The police and security services must get the resources they need, not 20,000 police cuts.
"Theresa May was warned by the Police Federation but she accused them of ‘crying wolf’.
"We will recruit another 10,000 new police officers, including more armed police, as well as 1,000 more security services staff to support our communities and help keep us safe."
SHOOT-TO-KILL
Mr Corbyn took flak from his MPs at the end of 2015 when he said he was "not happy" with shoot-to-kill – although he backtracked on his comments at an internal Labour meeting.
But tonight he said: "Our priority must be public safety and I will take whatever action is necessary and effective to protect the security of our people and our country.
"That includes full authority for the police to use whatever force is necessary to protect and save life as they did last night, as they did in Westminster in March."
EXTREMIST FUNDING
Elsewhere, he accused the Prime Minister of suppressing a report into foreign funding of extremist groups, and called for action to tackle states accused of supporting extremism.
The report – launched by David Cameron in 2015 at the behest of the Lib Dems – is thought to focus on Saudi Arabia, which the UK sells arms to, but according to reports may never be published.
"We do need to have some difficult conversations starting with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that have funded and fuelled extremist ideology," Mr Corbyn said.
"It is no good Theresa May suppressing a report into the foreign funding of extremist groups.
"We have to get serious about cutting off the funding to these terror networks, including Isis, here and in the Middle East."
'DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS'
His comments about "difficult conversations" refer to a statement made by the Prime Minister earlier today vowing to crack down on extremism.
Speaking on the steps of Downing Street this morning, the Prime Minister said "things need to change" and promised action on several fronts.
She vowed to clamp down on online extremism and review the Government's counter-terrorism strategy in response to a "new trend" of copycat terror attacks.
And she called for more action across government and society to tackle Islamist ideology.
"While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is, to be frank, far too much tolerance of extremism in our country," she declared.
"So we need to become far more robust in identifying it and stamping it out across the public sector and across society.
"That will require some difficult and often embarrassing conversations, but the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism
"And we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities but as one truly United Kingdom."
But Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry accused the Prime Minister of breaking the pact to halt political campaigning.
Jib in lad
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Corbyn going for it in a speech on SKY now.
roydo
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I dont think anyone would suggest that Western policy towards parts of the world have not had repercussions. We, The West, have acted like absolute idiots going back decades in many cases. Usually down to our own hubris and general ignorance of the deep seated and often multi faceted "local" situations we have attempted to intervene in. And oil.
But the point I was making is that certain posters on here seem to be taking that said same blunt approach to these last 2 attacks.
"Its them dirty Tories who caused all this"
Its a nonsense, and demeans your/their usually thoughtful and incisive contributions to this, and other, threads.
Clint Planet
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Just for clarity, Roydo, are you at all bothered about a Prime Minister expressing outrage about terrorist attacks perpetrated by criminals supplied by a regime cheerfully, obsequiously supported by the British government?
Just for clarity.
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