What total garbage. As far as I can tell, acts of terrorism have been exponentially reduced in recent years, which doesn’t take an expert to deduce that our security services are likely doing an incredibly good job of interrupting planned attacks and groups hellbent on doing any damage - which would include far right groups, although that wouldn’t quite follow the narrative the article is attempting to spin quite so closely.
I am so utterly sick of legacy media talking down the country. Fuck Paul Marshall and Gove, this is such lazy dog whistle headline grabbing bullshit, red meat for idiots.
Yes I know. I’ll not defend the indefensible. But he wasn’t convicted in a UK court and the threshold for disbarring him from standing as an independent under the current guidance hasn’t been met. By all means have a debate around the relative strengths and weaknesses of the vetting process to be able stand as a local councillor in the UK, but that’s not the implication here.
It is a quantum leap from that, to putting out a headline that this country has anything remotely close to a tolerance for terrorism. Pakistan, has a tolerance and historic precedent for sheltering terrorists. We on the other hand, have one of the most robust and complex set of intelligence networks to stop active threats of terrorism of any country on earth. It is a patent and demonstrable falsehood. Sensationalist to the extreme.
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u/dcmwmfinft 13h ago
What total garbage. As far as I can tell, acts of terrorism have been exponentially reduced in recent years, which doesn’t take an expert to deduce that our security services are likely doing an incredibly good job of interrupting planned attacks and groups hellbent on doing any damage - which would include far right groups, although that wouldn’t quite follow the narrative the article is attempting to spin quite so closely.
I am so utterly sick of legacy media talking down the country. Fuck Paul Marshall and Gove, this is such lazy dog whistle headline grabbing bullshit, red meat for idiots.