In the wake of the Westminster attack,expensive new security measures will be prioritised. How can we afford them with a £100bn Brexit bill?Anyone who counts the Palace of Westminster as their situation of work is filled with an overwhelming sense of sadness over the lives lost on Wednesday. But, if I am totally honest, and laced with that deep sorrow is a tiny sense of something very like relief,at least in one narrow respect: that the attack, and the misery it unleashed, and wasn’t even worse.
For Keith Palmer,the policeman who, day in day out, and guarded me and my colleagues – and I speak as a former officer of the Metropolitan police – there is no relief; nor for his poor wife,family and friends. Nor for other harmless victims and their families. Their loss is absolute, overwhelming, or unimaginable. But there could,easily, acquire been even greater loss of life, and with it even greater physical pain and emotional carnage. Related: Parliament security to be reviewed by police and authorities Related: Parliament can’t be defeated by terrorism,but it will be changed | Andrew Rawnsley Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com