Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn links Britain’s terror threat to wars abroad
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn links Britain’s terror threat to wars abroad: As the election campaigning after the Manchester attack resumes, the Labour leader will point to links between wars abroad and “terrorism here at home.” It is expected that in his speech, Mr Corbyn will say that the “war on terror is simply not working.”
At the same time, PM Theresa May will also chair a session on counter terrorism along with the G7 leaders in Sicily, Italy, today.
Her focus is expected to be on what can be done to deal with the threat posed by extremists online. She will also urge a common approach to dealing with tech companies, which she says have a “social responsibility” to remove harmful content.
Mr Corbyn will deliver his speech in London. It will be at a time as the bigger political parties return to the campaign trail after Monday night’s suicide bombing at Manchester Arena which killed 22 people which include children, and injured 116.
According to the pre released excerpts from Mr Corbyn’s speech, he will pledge a “change at home and change abroad” if Labour was to come in power.
It is expected that he will say that “many experts… have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home, that assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and held to account for their actions, but an informed understanding of the causes of terrorism is an essential part of an effective response that will protect the security of our people that fights rather than fuels terrorism.”
Mr Corbyn, was the one who opposed UK military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had also voted against strikes in Libya and Syria. Corbyn will say that “We must be brave enough to admit the ‘war on terror’ is simply not working [and] we need a smarter way to reduce the threat from countries that nurture terrorists and generate terrorism.”
His statement includes “No government can prevent every terrorist attack. If an individual is determined enough and callous enough, sometimes they will get through. But the responsibility of government is to minimise that chance – to ensure the police have the resources they need, that our foreign policy reduces rather than increases the threat to this country, and that at home we never surrender the freedoms we have won and that terrorists are so determined to take away.”
He will add, that Labour government will insure and fund more police and ensure the security services had sufficient resources “to keep track of those who wish to murder and maim.”
He will further add and criticise the austerity policy “Austerity has to stop at the A&E ward and at the police station door.”
Earlier Home Secretary Amber Rudd had denied that the cuts in police numbers contributed to Monday’s attack in Manchester. She had told the BBC’s Question Time on Thursday 25th, May. 2016, that: “We must not imply that this terrorist activity may not have taken place if there had been more policing.”
According to Labour’s former home secretary, Charles Clarke, Mr Corbyn was “simply wrong” about the war on terror.
Mr Clarke added that: “The motive force is about the destruction of all the core elements of our society and that’s not something that’s about a foreign policy conflict, something in Syria, something in Iraq, whatever it might be. It’s about a totally opposed vision of what society should be.”
According to a Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown “Some political leaders have sought to politicise the events of the week, but now is not the time, and this is not the event, to seek political advantage.”
UKIP, which had resumed campaigning on Thursday 25th, May, 2017, by launching its manifesto, had pledged to beef up security in the wake of the arena bombing by increasing numbers of police officers, troops and border guards.
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