The Last One

Is this man the only government official left in the UK to utilise common sense?

Adm. Sir Alan West, the former navy chief who was recently named new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's security minister, said on July 8th:

Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone," he told The Sunday Telegraph. "I'm afraid, in this situation, anyone who's got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life."

He said preventing the radicalization of young British Muslims was his top priority. "This is not a quick thing," he said. "I believe it will take 10 to 15 years. But I think it can be done as long as we as a nation apply ourselves to it and it's done across the board."

It seems to me that this statement is a thing that should have come from the mouth of the British PM himself, instead of his appointed minister.

But Gordon Brown has already set his path, saying:

Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in ­connection with the terrorism crisis.

The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on ­terror” is to be dropped.

The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair.

When you cannot even describe an enemy as an enemy, you have already lost the mental war.

Gordon Brown is, quite frankly, a very sad replacement for Tony Blair.

I suspect that Sir Alan West somehow managed to slip between the cracks; I'll wager there isn't much time extant before he finds himself mysteriously sacked by the Brown regime.

BZ