STAR LETTER: What is a terrorist?

Dear Editor,

According to the government’s Prevent programme, most British people are now terrorists.

One of the sub-categories that defines “extreme right wing terrorist ideology” is ‘the belief that “Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups”.’ So, anyone who questions or criticises the uncontrolled, and extremely expensive, influx of undocumented people – mostly young men – is not just a concerned citizen but an active threat to the country.

To categorise so many people in this way must surely be because Starmer and his acolytes are so far to the Left that everyone else, by default, must be right wing.

During the Cold War, a young Keir Starmer attended a camp behind the Iron Curtain, by invitation, purportedly for commemorative purposes. But why would the government of a Soviet satellite invite someone from an ‘enemy’ country unless they thought they could gain something from it?

We must all question the motives of the government, and specific characters therein, because they repeatedly show how they hold the white, indigenous population in utter contempt, now criminalising “wrong opinions”. MI5 has said that Islamic extremism is a much bigger threat, but Prevent has had some glaring failures, including the murder of Sir David Amess and the terrible attack in Southport.

Instead of constantly pursuing the imagined “extreme right wing”, perhaps the government could tackle real threats, such as those highlighted by their own security services, or the hordes escaping the horrors of war-torn France!

Under this government, Britain is a 1984-style dystopia and we must take every opportunity at the ballot box to remove them from power. Change was promised, it arrived, and everything is much worse now.

Thanks, Keir.

P Stannard, Newport

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