In case you might be in any possible doubt, let me make my position perfectly clear: I FUCKING HATE TERRORISTS AND WOULD WILLINGLY ROUND THEM ALL UP, PUT THEM IN A BIG HOLE AND FILL IT WITH CONCRETE. All of them. The whole bloody lot.

But you can’t find them. You can’t prevent them, so it would seem, and you can’t kick them out even if you could find them, because many are British. Allegedly. Just not ‘British’ in any way that we understand. As in embracing British values of freedom, democracy and tolerance.

And you can’t change your ways for terrorists, you can’t stop going out, stop having fun, stop meeting in public, stop going to pubs and clubs and football matches and concerts. Because then they win.

That’s the theory.

Then last night, when the shit hit the van, on London Bridge, then mayhem ensued in the normally fab, cool and atmospheric Borough Market, I thought about my daughter. Not the one with the baby, I knew exactly where she was, guarding my granddaughter. But my other daughter. The one who is always out and about in London’s hippest places that sell alcohol. So I messaged her. ‘You out?’ ‘Yep’. ‘Where are you?’ ‘Angel’. Ok, that’s Islington, miles away from the horrors. Then the question from her: ‘should I go home?’

And that simple question was in fact a test of faith. The proper answer is ‘no, if you change your lifestyle, the motherfucking jihadi scumbags win’. But in my heart I just wanted her safe. Home, in her bed, doors locked. I was almost ashamed to have such thoughts, but this was no longer about politics and statements. This was family.

These ‘jihadis’ are just violent, worthless scum. They have no value of life, their own or that of others. And the ‘islamist’ badges they wear are worthless. If they weren’t affiliated to ‘ISIS’ they’d be part of a gang, maybe join some other form of moronic ‘freedom fighters’. They just like violence and death, under any banner. But currently they are ‘Islamists’ and that horrendous ideology must be addressed. And that can only happen within the muslim community. I don’t hold muslims in any way responsible for this shit but they do have the power. To control the values at home, in mosques, meeting places, where all the evil begins.

The police shot the 3 attackers dead. 8 minutes after they received the first phone call. If that’s not unbelievably brilliant, I don’t know what is. 8 minutes. Respect.

Happy tragic Sunday

A xxxx