| George Galloway -- yes, him -- on what Labour should be saying (and isn't) about whether the British police should have the authority to shoot-to-kill if terrorists pop up in Britain. He said what the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, couldn't bring himself to say: |
"One has to say that if anyone comes here with guns and bombs, our police will shoot them down and stop them. There's no room for equivocation about that at all.
"Of course, a shoot to kill policy in general is a bad idea ... apart from being wrong, they don't work, they make more terrorists.
"What the Labour leadership should do is be absolutely clear that when it comes to the safety and the defence of our people in our own island, on our own streets, then the police will have the full backing of the political leadership to gun them down if necessary.
"I'd shoot them myself with my own hand. I'd pull the trigger myself. I'd be happy to see them all dead in the street.
"These people are just about the most horrific group of people I have ever seen in my long political life and I'm damned sure I'm not going to sit idly by while they are running around up and down Piccadilly with guns and bombs."