UK Host Blasts Defence Secretary Over Security Failures: "People Coming Into The Country Illegally Are A Security Risk"
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TalkTV anchor Julia Hartley-Brewer addresses UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting about the five men arrested in a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire this weekend -- a base shared with the U.S. Air Force:

JULIA HARTLEY-BREWER, TALKTV HOST: You are the defense minister, son. What are you doing about the small boat crossings, the terror cells, Islamism, the threat from Russia? Why is Israel sanctioned when they provide a lot of our intelligence reports for us? Why does the government seem to ignore warnings from agencies and former big-beasts in intelligence who connect immigration with the security threat?

Because I'm-I would take a little guess here, Wes. Let me teach you a thing or two in case you don't get it yet. I would imagine that whatever has gone down near Fairford, the people who have done it probably came into the country from somewhere else and came there specifically to do whatever it is they were planning to do.

So perhaps, let me make it clear, you should join a dot, right, between Iran saying, "Oh, we shipped in various terrorists from the IRGC to your country via a boat over the Channel." They told you. It came out of their mouths. And yet you're still there going, "Oh yeah. Aren't they nice? They're just asylum seekers. Give them a hotel. Let them stay on a military base. And don't worry about that perimeter fence. We'll open it wide up. In fact, well, let's lay on some minibuses to send them round the local towns so they can get their blueprints of where our critical infrastructure is and grope some girls."

Why is it that all of you-you, Wes Streeting, you, Andy Burnham, every single muppet in the unions, every single past prime minister for the past 10 years-all seem to have failed to notice that if you were a hostile state or a terrorist organization wanting to get weapons into the country or people who might use those weapons, a great idea would be to bus them in illegally, I don't know, on a boat?

Sometimes they use private jets. They're still getting in the country. And perhaps, therefore, some of these people you give smartphones to and teach how to make little balloon animals, and you're encouraged to sing "Kumbaya" and hand out the old rape pamphlet-perhaps some of these people might be terrorists.

Perhaps you should state publicly that the risk from these people breaking into our nation is a security one and get real. This has been going on too long.

I'm afraid, actually, at this point, it's probably too late. 'Cause they're all there, aren't they? They're now dotted around, ready to carry out their various operations.

We need to have, as you say, our security services, our armed forces, our police and emergency responders on standby 24/7 to actually react and make sure they can't blow things up because you and all of your colleagues in Westminster have failed to do your job in protecting the realm.

So it's all very well putting your nice words on X. Thank you for saving us again. What are you gonna do about it, huh? The buck stops with you, Defense Secretary.

I wanna hear a concrete plan, and I want to hear you say-admit that people coming into the country illegally are a security risk, and then do something about it.