MAY RESPONDS TO THE ATTACK – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  Four days before Britain's national election, Prime Minister Theresa May responded to the latest terror attack.  From The Telegraph:

Theresa May has vowed that “enough is enough” as she urged people to go about their lives as normal after seven people were killed and almost 50 injured in the London Bridge terror attack.  

The Prime Minister said that there is “far too much tolerance of extremism in our country” as she set out plans to crack down on terror.

She said that while the Manchester Arena attack which killed 22 people, the Westminster attack in March which left four people dead and the London Bridge attack are not directly connected, there is now a “new trend” in the threat the UK faces as “terrorism breeds terrorism”. 

The Prime Minister said that the UK must do more to tackle the threat posed by “Islamist extremism”.

Ah, she used the term.  Will she now be read out of respectable society?

Speaking in Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, she said: “It will only be defeated when we turn people’s minds away from this violence and make them understand that our values, pluralistic, British values, are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate.”

Mrs May paid tribute to the emergency services who responded to the latest attack with “great courage and great speed” as she confirmed that many of the injured are in “life-threatening conditions”.

COMMENT:  Sadly, she's run a poor campaign, and the election Thursday is in doubt.  The Labour Party, her main opponent, is headed by a certified nutcase who's expressed open sympathy with terrorists in the past, is anti-American, anti-NATO, and anti-Israel.  And yet, his party might win and put him in the prime minister's office.  Let us hope that Britain still has enough Churchillian backbone to stand for the right things.

June 4,  2017