UK must get back in control of terror
Theresa May needs to reintroduce control orders to infringe liberty of terror suspects before it is too late
WHEN control orders were abolished in 2011, the argument against them was that they infringed the liberty of terror suspects.
You read that right. That was the argument against them.
To most people, infringing the liberty of terrorists is exactly what we need to do.
But under the last Coalition Government the Lib Dems insisted on abolishing control orders, to be replaced with the useless Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, known as T-Pims.
They are pathetically weak.
Control orders could put suspects under house arrest, restrict who they were allowed to meet and stop them using smartphones and the internet.
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T-Pims do none of that.
And despite the security services believing that there are around 500 trained jihadis on our streets, and some 2,000 suspected terrorists overall, there is only one currently in force. It covers a convicted bomb plotter who was sentenced to three years’ jail.
Today we reveal he has used YOUR money to get the T-Pim’s terms watered down even more.
How the terrorists must laugh at us. This is not some theoretical legal dispute. It’s a battle to protect the West from butchers.
There is nothing more important for a Government than protecting its citizens.
That means it is imperative that Mrs May gives the authorities a proper mechanism to deal with terror suspects once again.
She must scrap the useless T-Pims and reintroduce control orders — before it is too late.
Dying shame of NHS
HOWEVER good our hospitals may be, and however excellent the NHS doctors and nurses in them, it’s irrelevant if patients don’t get there in time.
Nationally, just 6.2 per cent of cardiac arrest patients who have to wait for an ambulance survive. In part because nearly three in ten ambulances don’t reach victims within the eight minute deadline.
Meanwhile the NHS Trust bosses draw ever higher salaries.
Rewarding bosses for failure has to stop.
Substandard excuse
IF a Subway customer wants a paper cup for their drink, some stores demand another quid for the privilege.
The sandwich chain justifies its 2,000 per cent mark-up with a lot of guff about the till, stock inventory and franchises.
What they really mean is: Computer says No.