‘Open-door’ EU leaders are to blame for terror

Has it really taken the slaughter of 129 innocent people to make the EU and UK leaders realise that their ‘open-door’ policy would wreak havoc? I for one am not at all surprised that terrorists have infiltrated into our midst. It has been obvious to me and millions of others that the bubble would eventually burst, leaving us at war with IS.

Our leaders are put there to protect us and they are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think that the blinkered ideology they have been showing for years with regard to immigration and open borders would not end in tragedy. Political ideology has brought about the terrorism experienced by innocent people.

Funny, isn’t it, that Frau Merkel has had very little to say in the wake of the Paris bloodbath. It is she and countless others who have inflicted this chaos upon us, and no wonder the German people are angry at being swamped with huge numbers of refugees, which has obviously overwhelmed them and made them vulnerable to the scourge of terrorism. Be in no doubt that there will be other attacks upon our countries.

Ruth Peberdy,

Bridgwater, Somerset

Al Qaeda were able to plot 9/11 because they had a safe haven in Afghanistan from which they could plan, recruit and raise funds for terrorism. Similarly, IS have a safe haven in Syria and Iraq from which to organise the Paris and Tunisian attacks, and the Russian plane bombing.

The terrorism will only get worse unless a huge army is sent to the Middle East to attack them. Bombing didn’t stop Britain fighting Hitler, nor Germany fighting Britain, nor the Viet Cong fighting the Americans. IS have to be destroyed.

Marc Hurstfield, Northfleet, Kent

Can somebody tell me how the Government can claim to be taking the fight against terrorism seriously at a time when they are slashing defence and police budgets? Some police forces have announced that their forces will be the smallest since the 1970s at a time of massive population growth and heightened security risk. Very strange.

Jules Millerchip, Coventry

With the news that two of the jihadis from the Paris attacks arrived in Greece from Syria last month, all those leaders and human-rights campaigners who call for freedom of movement should hang their heads in shame. They have aided this crime.

Keith Cavell, Southampton

If, as Jihadi John and his friends believe, there is an afterlife, he could be in for a bit of a shock – when he meets his victims.

Brian Christley,

Abergele, North Wales