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Britain

UK military interventions fuelled terror, extremism: Labour leader Corbyn

2019-12-02

[The News (Pak)] The threat of terrorism and extremism has been "fuelled" by the United Kingdom's foreign policy, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

...Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015. Germy has been the Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983, which is 36.420906677282176 years or thereabouts. Ideologically, he identifies as a democratic socialist, but his words whisper commie. He is believed to be descended from weasels...
said Sunday, saying it supported foreign invasions and had led to the Iraq war under his own party's government - then headed by Tony Blair.

Speaking in York in the wake of terrorist attack on London Bridge by the British-born convict Usman Khan, Corbyn accused UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
of being "the world's leading sycophant" towards US President Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
and said it was time for Britannia to stop bring tied to the Republican head-of-state's coattails.

Britannia's repeated military interventions have "exacerbated rather than resolved" the problem of terrorism, the Labour leader warned. He said the so-called "war on terror has manifestly failed" and the world was "living with the consequences" of the botched invasion of Iraq, which he opposed.

Corbyn said the UK risked being "tied to Donald Trump's coattails" and the United States' foreign policy under Johnson but praised the public's "extraordinary bravery" in confronting and tackling the assailant. The police were right to use lethal force, he said, with lives at stake and the attacker wearing a fake boom jacket.

While the responsibility for terror acts lied with "the terrorists, their funders and recruiters", UK leaders "have made the wrong calls on our security", he added. "The threat of terrorism cannot and should not be reduced to questions of foreign policy alone.

Posted by:Fred

#2 Surrender is the answer, right Jermy?

Posted by: AlanC 2019-12-02 07:48

#1 I'd say decolonialization has fueled terror and extremism. If you sat on them back home, they wouldn't be in your walls today.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-02 07:21

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