Wes Streeting sat there the morning after Berlin and talked about people who would SEEK TO DO US HARM.
He never said who.
Protect them from WHO, Wes? You just couldn't finish the sentence.
So let me. Because his own government already has.
MI5's own words. Islamist terrorism is the most significant terrorist threat to the UK by volume. It's on their website right now.
Here's what that looks like and he's the Defence Secretary. He knows every number.
75% of MI5's entire workload. More than 500 live operations. Around 3,000 active suspects. 23,000 who've been on the radar.
62% of everyone jailed for terror offences in this country declared themselves Muslim. That's not me. That's the House of Commons Library.
7/7, 56 dead. Manchester Arena, 23 dead, children, at a pop concert. Both Islamist and here's the Berlin part. A government terror body warned months ago that a UK Pride event would likely be hit by a VEHICLE AS A WEAPON. Pride was already on the list of 39 plots MI5 has foiled.
They described Berlin before Berlin happened.
History warned us too. In 1979 the Left in Iran marched with the Islamists to bring down the Shah, sure they shared a future. The day Khomeini won, he purged them, executed them, drove them into exile.
Ignore the ideology at your peril. It does not share your values, and never pretended to.
Yes, MI5 flags the far right as a rising second threat. Name it, it's real. But Islamist is the PRIMARY one, and they say so themselves.
You can defend every peaceful Muslim's right to live freely, and every gay person's right to live freely, both at once.
But you cannot stand there, the morning after a woman was killed at a Pride parade, and refuse to name what your own security service calls the biggest threat to this country.
He didn't need to be vague, Wes.
He chose to be.
Andy Burnham: coronation without representation. We are in an era when even the unconvincing facade of democracy is deliberately torn down. The social contract is no more and those assuming authority must rely on force and fear to maintain their positions. Dangerous for all.