David Cameron has come out with a couple of crackers in the last day or so. First of all he has reportedly said, “I’m ready to fight IS in Libya and Syria”, and that “dirty money is not welcome in Britain”.
What is he on about? He won’t be fighting anyone. It will be our rapidly dwindling armed forces that will do the fighting. Does he not know that our army has shrunk in recent years from over 100k personnel to just over 80k now?
The armed forces are being continually reduced while stretched to breaking point and yet deployed to fight ill-considered wars with no readily identifiable objective. We have the fewest number of ships in the Royal Navy and the fewest number of airplanes in the Royal Airforce in our history.
Instead of fighting unwinnable wars in the Middle East Cameron should deploy troops in Dover to defend our own borders. We are now under siege from illegal migrants. He should offer to deploy troop in Calais alongside French troops to stem the tide there. While at it he should offer to go half-way with the French to pay for electrified fencing around the port.
He should make it plain that illegal migrants detained will not be given entry to the UK, and if they succeed in gaining entry they will be sent back to the country they just left. Only when these people know they will not get entry to the UK, and if they do they will get nothing from the British government, will they stop coming.
Meanwhile he wants to stop “dirty money” coming to Britain. Really? Russians have been turning up in London with suitcases full of cash for years. Even ‘legitimate’ investors from countries like Russia and China are buying up housing in London in order to stash their cash because they don’t trust their own governments not to steal it from them. Pandering to foreign criminals and businessmen of questionable ethics is now a major part of the UK economy.
Successive governments have been happy for London to become like Miami in the film Scarface – a gangsters’ and money launders’ paradise. Today’s Daily Express reports that “over £180 million worth of UK property is believed to be under criminal investigation for having been bought with the proceeds of corruption”. Meanwhile dubious foreign billionaires use London as a bolt-hole and are feted as public benefactors and celebrities.
The truest words spoken this week were by Lord Sewel who said that David Cameron is “The most superficial Prime Minister ever. He just shoots from the hip. He makes one-off commitments he cannot deliver”. At least the cocaine did not affect his judgment.
