Jove's Garcon: So Mr Cameron acts tough on ISIS .... or does he?

So, Mr Cameron acts tough and says he'll prevent UK nationals who have fought as jihadists from returning to the UK for two years, unless they submit to pretty draconian infringements of their liberties. Hooray says the media and political class, not at all afraid to further assist islamaphobia and, BTW, further radicalisation of not only those so 'contained' but probably others already part-convinced this country is on the side of their devil.

We are signatory to enough conventions and treaties that debar us from make people stateless, and one asks how near the knuckle this is going to go. One also is bound to ask, what will such targeted people be doing whilst they are so excluded if they refuse to sign up? Loyally toasting pictures of the Queen maybe? Reading the latest backtrack by Nigel Farage on what he said that contradicts the UKIP manifesto? This 'device' is another horse that bolted and now they want to secure the stable.

Could it be, Mr Cameron, that this country has served a generation of young islamic people so poorly that they are prey to such extremists? And of their parents, where have they been to have lost such respect? I am particularly incensed to see Labour MPs like Hazel Blears endorse this patriotism-is-the-last=refuge-of-the-scoundrel piece of Tory-speak.

One simply has to ask, set the precedent and who is next. Or let's take a time-travel to Britain in the early 1930s when many young people here go to fight in a noble cause, as they truly believed, to lay down their lives against what they saw as evil needing to be opposed.

Yes, the Spanish Civil War, and the International Brigade. Some of them infected by a truly dangerous creed, marxism. radicalised, interestingly enough, in a period of great depression. Ah well, one is so used to right-wing Labour Home Secretaries that this is no surprise perhaps. As for the Lib Dems, I have no brief for them anyway, the enablers of this coup-by-coalition, but it is a sad reflection on a party that has at least maintained a liberal tradition in such matters.

Of those who returned, how many knew how to shoot straight when a real threat to Britain actually emerged, and how many in later years stayed as radicalised as they were when they went? One is not saying ISIS etc are not a threat, but isn't this idea a bit like barring members of the International Brigade because of Stalin?