Chameleon Magazine

Dear Home Secretary Yvette Cooper,

You have just done something both dangerous and disgraceful. On the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings—a day that should unite this country in remembrance—you chose to weaponise it. You wrote in a national paper that the “greatest threat remains Islamist terrorism, followed by extreme right-wing terrorism.”

And now we’ve reached the absurd point where the government is equating British citizens—many of whom are just worried about their culture, safety, and future—with actual suicide bombers who blew up buses and trains and murdered 52 people.

Let’s stop and let that settle in.

You didn’t just say we need to keep an eye on violent groups (which we all support, by the way). You casually lumped in people who might attend a rally, post online about immigration, or raise questions about national identity with bomb-vest-wearing, martyrdom-seeking killers.

Where do you get off?

Do you even hear yourself?

You’re fueling the very flames you claim to be fighting. If you keep telling people they’re extremists for simply being on the right—or for criticising mass, unregulated immigration, cultural changes, or failures in policing—what do you think they’re going to do? Apologise and vote Labour?

No. You’re radicalising them with your own rhetoric.

And let’s be honest: half the people who identify as “right-wing” in this country probably couldn’t explain what that even means. They’re not plotting attacks. They’re not forming cells. They’re just confused, angry, and desperate for someone in power to listen. Not lecture.

This isn’t defence. It’s deflection. You can’t solve problems like terrorism, social division, or immigration mismanagement, so instead you try to make anyone asking questions the enemy.

Well here’s a question back: how many right-wing MPs have blown up a bus? How many centre-right mums in Rotherham are strapping explosives to their chests? How many “gammon-faced” pensioners on Facebook are training in Afghan camps?

None. And you know it.

But you carry on, Home Secretary. Carry on painting half the country as enemies of the state. Just don’t act surprised when people stop trusting your government, your police, your institutions, and yes, your version of “tolerance.”

You want to fight extremism? Start by not creating it through your own arrogant, tone-deaf proclamations.

Because once again, the government has forgotten something crucial:

You don’t unite a country by dividing its people.