RAF exercise. Flickr/Defence Images. Some rights reserved.All too often it takes terrible events, like the awful attacks on Manchester and London, before our politicians focus on the issue of security. The responses tend to be militaristic and ‘strong’, but do they make us any safer?
After rightly pinning the responsibility for the attacks on the man who carried it out, Corbyn questioned if the current combination of cuts to domestic services and interventionism abroad is in fact exacerbating the threat of terrorism.
The point wasn’t well received by the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, who called it “ill judged” and “dangerous.” Likewise it was denounced by the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, who denounced it as “monstrous” (despite having made a similar argument himself before taking office.)
