Its 6-30, so it must be time to abuse Sir Ian Blair, who has just told us that the scale of the terrorist threat to the UK has increased immeasurably since 7th July.
Hmm. A few points occur. Firstly, it gives the lie to his namesake’s story that the war in Iraq has made us all safer. As if anybody still believed that.
However, what really gets the attention is the implication that pre-7/7, the Police had no idea what was going on. Only now have they realised there’s a major threat from terrorism. What were they doing beforehand? Surely the people responsible for our safety who seem to have had a complete breakdown in intelligence should be disciplined? Who, at the end of the day, was responsible for this cataclysmic level of ignorance?
Patently not the leaders of the Police then. Maybe we should be grateful to the terrorists o 7/7 for making themselves known in such a way. It’s obvious the police wouldn’t have noticed them otherwise.
I’m glad you noted that it is the leaders of the police who display ignorance in this area. Ian Blair is no more that a New Labour puppet with a superiority complex. He does not represent the general police service anymore than Tony represents old Labour. Ian Blair makes a comment on the terrorist threat when the Stockwell tube shooting is back in the news. Sorry to keep banging on, but isn’t something afoot?
Comment by World Weary Detective — December 14, 2005 @ 11:17 pm