Smug, craven politicians in thrall to notions of 'diversity' sowed the seeds of the terror we're now reaping, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.
The glowing tributes paid to protection officer PC Keith Palmer were thoroughly deserved. He was the best of British, a man with a selfless sense of duty who served in the Royal Artillery before joining the police.
Constable Palmer, who was unarmed, was stabbed to death fending off a crazed jihadist attacker attempting to enter the Houses of Parliament.
In the Commons, MPs queued up to honour his bravery and sacrifice. Politicians love to associate themselves with the courage of our men and women in uniform.
But, at risk of being accused of cynicism, I couldn’t help wondering about the reaction had PC Palmer been a firearms officer who shot dead a knifeman on the streets of London. On past form, he’d have been lucky not to end up in the dock at the Old Bailey, charged with murder.
Worse, if during his Army days he’d been falsely accused by some crooked solicitor such as Phil Shyster of committing ‘war crimes’ in Afghanistan, Iraq or Northern Ireland, his life would have been turned upside down by the historic investigations team and he could now be rotting in a military jail.
In either event, the same politicians singing his posthumous praises this week would have washed their hands of him.
