Filed under: Law and Order
Read any newspaper today and you’d be confronted by a range of reports about Britain’s energy security, a pay-as-you-throw future for rubbish collections, the introduction of pay-as-you drive for UK motorists and surprise, surprise more failures following another 24 hours of this government being in charge. But I was particularly horrified by the news that three terror suspects were last night on the run because someone felt that these suspects could be trusted to report to various authorities every day and therefore be ‘supervised’ by Control Orders.
These people pose a serious risk to the public and to our country and yet this government has clearly lost the plot over one fundamental issue – protecting British citizens from the threat of terror. Government accountability over such failures is virtually non-existent and although John Reid is due to give a statement in the Commons ’s on this matter, this will not address the fundamental fact that the current Control Order regime is a farce and that Control Orders are a disgrace and an embarrassment to our security policy.
