UK Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn has had the audacity to utter the unthinkable.
In his first campaign speech since the terrorist attack on Manchester
Arena, he dared to link Britain’s involvement in foreign wars to
terrorism on British soil.
During the
15-minute speech on how Labour would deliver on domestic security in
the UK, Corbyn said: “Many experts, including professionals in
our intelligence and security services have pointed to the
connections between wars our government has supported or fought in
other countries, such as Libya, and terrorism here at home.”
It’s no
surprise that Corbyn was immediately accused by his critics of
politicizing the Manchester attack by drawing a link between
terrorism and foreign policy. But the response from Prime Minister
Theresa May was perhaps the most sickening and disingenuous of all.
Speaking on
the sidelines of the G7 in Taormina, May unashamedly twisted Corbyn’s
words and lied blatantly: “Jeremy Corbyn has said that terror
attacks in Britain are our own fault,” she said, before going a
step further to imply Corbyn had made excuses for the Manchester
attacker: “There can never, ever be an excuse for terrorism.
There can be no excuse for what happened in Manchester.”
Let’s just
get this clear: Jeremy Corbyn did not say terrorist attacks on
British soil are the fault of British people — and he did not make
any excuses, nor did he imply any excuses could ever be made, for
terrorists who carry out such attacks.
For anyone
who actually listened to his speech, there can be no debating this.
Corbyn never said any such thing. May simply decided to take his
actual words and fashion them into something which she thought might
win her a few extra votes in the upcoming general election. Ten days
out, with her lead in the polls dramatically sinking, any dig against
Corbyn will do — even if she needs to stoop to calling him a
terrorist sympathizer.
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