Cameron’s and May’s Legacy

[darmstadt]

So she wasn't just cutting the police force as well then: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...dget-cuts-come

The past five years have seen spending cuts of more than 18% with the loss of more than 17,000 police officers and a programme of changes including the introduction of police and crime commissioners.

BBC News - Andrew Marr Show - May: Police cuts won't affect frontline

If I recall the outgoing chief of Manchester police warned a short while back that cuts would cause severe problems...

[Paddy]

Don't worry.

May has decided to get tough.

Yup. She's appointing a "Terror Tsar".

Wasn't this what Blair used to do to make it look like he was doing something?

ISTR they were a waste of space

Humm... Daily Mail again however, Daily Mail in 2011 with a fluffy bunny story about hero’s from Manchester in Libya.

Why do so many Libyan rebels seen on TV speak with British accents? The answer lies in Manchester... We love watching The X Factor, but we’d rather risk our lives fighting Gaddafi

The sun set as the Land Cruiser entered the rebel camp in the dunes between the Libyan coastal town of Ajdabiya and the Brega front line. It was time for the Isha or ‘nightfall’ prayer. Against dark velvet skies, the silhouetted forms of rebel soldiers knelt, arms stretched to Mecca.

Libyan rebels who love watching The X Factor and risk their lives fighting Gaddafi | Daily Mail Online

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Don't worry.

May has decided to get tough.

Yup. She's appointing a "Terror Tsar".

Wasn't this what Blair used to do to make it look like he was doing something?

ISTR they were a waste of space

[Paddy]

Cameron’s and May’s Legacy

While May was home secretary, publically her policy was to curb immigration but privately she was facilitating Cameron’s ambitions for Libya. Cameron’s public speeches on helping “freedom fighter” and “rebels” in Libya. (The same “freedom fighter” and “rebels” now called terrorists.

May, was issuing passports and turning a blind eye to the Islamic fighters going to and from Libya and Syria.





https://www.ft.com/content/42cabb04-...6-25f963e998b2

Salman Abedi was 16 when he first visited Libya, the country his parents had fled in 1993 to escape persecution under Muammer Gaddafi. But this was no ordinary coming-of-age trip for Abedi. Once there, he reunited with his father, who had left his family in Manchester three years earlier to aid the revolution against Gaddafi. And, according to friends of the family, members of the Libyan community in Manchester and sources in Libya, Abedi had come to fight.He was not alone. It was 2011, and dozens of other Mancunians were already there. Mustafa Graf, the imam of the Didsbury mosque, the centre of the Libyan community in south Manchester, had also travelled back to Libya to help topple Gaddafi. Manchester became a fundraising centre for their war effort. Preachers travelled between the two countries, encouraging the fight, invariably couching it in terms of jihad.