TAKING IT SERIOUSLY – AT 8:25 A.M. ET:  Britain has a more serious internal security problem than we do, in part due to reckless immigration policies that are coming home to roost.  From The Times of Israel:

The British government is monitoring thousands of terror suspects in London, Mayor Boris Johnson told the Telegraph newspaper on Friday night, as the official terror threat in the UK remained at “severe” level.

“In London we’re very, very vigilant and very, very concerned,” Johnson said. “Every day — as you saw recently, we had to raise the threat level — every day the security services are involved in thousands of operations…there are probably in the low thousands of people that we are monitoring in London.”

In late August the UK’s terror threat risk level was raised to “severe,” meaning an attack was “highly likely”. It was the second highest level out of five possible categories and the highest since July 2011.

The increase has been tied to developments in Syria and Iraq, and Britain’s involvement in the fight against the Islamic State group there, which could encourage retaliatory attacks by British extremists.

It has been estimated that approximately 500 UK nationals have traveled to fight in the region, with the Telegraph reporting that about half have returned home for various reasons.

“London has a particular concern,” Johnson said, “because probably of the five or six hundred that are out there, we think a third, maybe more — maybe half — come from the London area."

COMMENT:  I've always said that there's a "great" Britain and a "not-so-great" Britain.  Boris Johnson, who has just done a book on Churchill, is part of "great" Britain.  The other part will, on Monday morning, dance the appeasement act by introducing into the House of Commons a bill calling for the recognition of "Palestine" as a nation, even though there are no agreed-upon borders.  It is the standard left-wing stuff.  The "Palestinians" are not called upon to do anything to gain this ridiculous recognition.  The bill will probably pass, given British politics, despite government opposition.  It will not be binding.  Britain once depended on Churchill and his allies.  Now it must depend on Boris Johnson and his allies. 

October 11, 2014