Opinion
08 Jun 17

Theresa May's Policies Have "Made Britain A Dangerous Place", Claims Piers Morgan

As voting gets underway in the general election across the water, the controversial broadcaster has described the British PM as someone he "wouldn’t trust to protect me from an angry wasp, let alone a jihadi terrorist".

Piers Morgan, who's father hailed from County Offaly, uses his column in the Daily Mail this morning to say that he wouldn't trust either the Tory leader or Labour's James Corbyn to protect the nation in the ongoing fight against extremists.
"What worries me far more is that the woman most likely to win the election, Theresa May, has proven herself to be a disastrous defender of our national security," he writes.
Explaining why he doesn't have any confidence in her, Morgan explains: "She is the one who slashed our police force by 20,000, thus directly harming our ability to gather vital intelligence on the ground from the communities where these jihadists live. ‘Stop crying wolf!’ she arrogantly declared when they warned of dire consequences. Now the real wolves are at our door wreaking destruction.
"She is the one who decimated our armed police numbers by over 1,500, thus removing from the front line of our defences the kind of brilliant expert rapid-response marksmen we saw in action last Saturday night.
"She is the one who abandoned control orders that might have kept some kind of observational lid on these monsters. She is the one who has now had three massive ISIS terror attacks happen on her brief watch as our nation’s leader."
His Daily Mail column's full headline reads as: "Theresa May’s savage police cuts and weakness with Islamist extremism have made Britain a dangerous place - I wouldn’t trust her to protect me from an angry wasp, let alone a jihadi terrorist."
In response to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson asking how could the terrorist Kharum Butt have slipped through the net, Morgan had this to say: "Well, I’ll tell you what happened, Foreign Secretary. You and your government dropped the ball so badly that a whole load of your citizens got murdered and maimed. That’s what happened.
"And the person ultimately responsible for these failures was your boss. She can now spout all the tough terror talk she likes, but I wouldn’t trust Theresa May to protect me from an angry wasp, let alone an ISIS jihadi."