11 June 2011

Preventing Extremism in Government

Dean Godson of Policy Exchange has a pair of unsurprising yet remarkable lines in an opinion piece on the Prevent review in The Times.

"Rather, the bulk of the resistance to Munich has come from Whitehall and particularly from the highest reaches of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism within the Home Office. Senior mandarins wanted a free hand to pick credible (ie, radical) Islamist partners as a supposed counterweight to al-Qaeda."

.... It seems idiots and knaves in Whitehall don’t want to know or don’t care. .... When will the government get its own house in order?

When will these people be removed from positions of responsibility which they are abusing in such a grotesque manner, to the detriment of the country they are supposed to serve? [Lucy Lips, Harry’s Place] Read more