Terrorism and its Import

The centre of Birmingham, New Street and Bennett's Hill, Mr Brown, is indeed somewhere from which "we cannot walk away."


'fascists and racists'




'anti-fascists'



While you blether on about "denying the territory of Afghanistan as a base for terrorists." and how it is essential to defend the United Kingdom (that will be 'Britain' to you, so that you can be a North Briton, won't it), from "a new crucible of terrorism" in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area (the Afghan war has slipped permanently into being referred to as Pakistan/Afghan, note) the fighting is breaking out in the centre of the UK's second city.

You're not using drones on Brummies - not yet - wiping out shoppers, wedding parties, people out for a family celebration, as you do in your currrent chosen battleground. But Birmingham has bitter experience of being in the front line of post imperial wars indulged in by overweeningly presumptuous UK political elites.

New Labour, your policies, are creating the base for terrorists; not in remote areas of the East but in central England. The clumsily put together and delivered apologia, masqueraded as a major explication of your Executive's assent to a U.K. role as part of an 'overall international strategy', confessed that your concerns are no longer, if they ever were, the security and peaceful well being of our country. You and your puppet master Blair have imported gross levels of threat and realised destruction not just to Iraq and Afghanistan, but into the United Kingdom. No wonder you cannot find supporters for your misbegotten policies and actions among more civilised European countries to whom you are so invariably discourteous.

There is little point in 'urging other countries to "take their share of responsibility" for security.' England has become, of our corrupted government's choice, the sump of Europe for every last problem and problem people who enter the EU. It all ends up here. Here because you kowtow to what President Eisenhower named and warned so plainly against - the military industrial complex. So-called global policies and development is nothing more than the propaganda arm of that complex, to which New Labour has made the United Kingdom wholly subservient.

'Britain's military will stay in Afghanistan until the country's own security forces can fight the Taliban and al Qaeda without assistance,' will they? And then presumably they will return home to help remove the the terrible threat that has been planted by Labour in our own country. Repeatedly the army has reported they are facing an enemy of whom at least some are from England. Perhaps it would be best of they faced them here, at source, and dealt with the terrorism wilfully created here before doing so in Afghanistan.

Calling people names, like racist and fascist, and anointing others with titles like anit-fascist organisations, doesn't alter the real nature of what was, this time, a violent but non-lethal confrontation between forces of everyday modern European life, and values and aims, infuriated by military provocation, imported from countries in which our army has no business except for the arms business.

The peoples of the UK can get on with each other with remarkable displays of tolerance, provided we have a government who practice a foreign policy that excludes attacking the countries of origin of many of our citizens, and domestic policies that recognize that England is not the back of beyond.