Britain has trouble getting Anti-Terrorism Together

BBC NEWS reports on the "Fears of 'half baked' terror plan".

The British government has stumbled this weekend. Tony Blair called for new powers to "deport or exclude foreigners who encourage terrorism". Pressure mounted against the Government since. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats not in the government protested their lack of involvement in the decision-making. Now, Mr. Blair has said his plans will "go out to consultation." John Denham, chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, comments:

"The last few days really give the sense that the government has got into a real state of nerves," he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.

"It is displaying a lack of confidence in its own strategy.

"I think they have got to get a grip on it very, very quickly, stop floating half-baked ideas and get back a proper cross-party consensus on the serious measures that have to be taken."
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"Once you start making announcements in press conferences that you have not told the other parties about, you have not consulted communities about, you do run into dangers that the strategy itself looks shaky.

"And far from looking strong, you look weaker than you want to."

It's not the time for the Britons to cave to political correctness. Whatever political arrangements the Government and Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition needs to make, they had better make. One problem I observe about the Blair proposals concerns the "foreigner" exclusion. Certainly it's a welcome beginning; Britain can't afford to provide asylum or host parties that advocate the UK's destruction. However, the 7/7 bombers were British Nationals of Pakistani descent. Would they be subject to this "foreigner exclusion"? How does the "treason" law fit in with this? So far, more questions than answers.

Great Britain requires a firm policy with clear boundaries and harsh consequences. The Government must deliver the certain message that Terrorists will have no place to hide and no further opportunity to strike. Those that would support the terrorists must be held to account; if they're from another country, then let them get their sorry asses hauled back to the country they came from! It's long past time for the UK to shut down Londonistan.