Al-Qaeda is said to be grooming children for attacks and officials are claiming that there are at least 2000 people, many under the age of 18, were considered dangerous enough to keep tabs on. From the Daily Mail:

children are being “groomed” for terrorism by Al Qaeda masterminds, who have stepped up their campaign to target the United Kingdom, the new head of MI5 warned yesterday.

There are now more than 2,000 individuals in Britain being tracked by the Security Service because they pose a threat to national security, he claimed, 400 more than last year.

Jonathan Evans used his first public speech since his appointment in April to reveal how Islamist fanatics are targeting teenagers as young as 15.

Government sources denied his stark warning was timed to coincide with a new crackdown on suspected terrorists being unveiled by Gordon Brown today.

The Queen’s speech will confirm that the Prime Minister wants to extend the 28-day period for detaining terrorist suspects without trial, a move MI5 has refused to endorse in public.

Mr Evans said his organisation faced the “the most immediate and acute peacetime threat” since it was established 98 years ago.

Security service in England are stretched too thin to effectively counter the terror threat however, as Russian and Chinese agents have increased cold war style operations within the United Kingdom:

The head of MI5 has sensationally accused Russia and China of undermining the fight against terrorism by running Cold War espionage operations in Britain.

Jonathan Evans voiced “disappointment” that his agents are having to track spies from major countries that are diplomatic allies when they should be taking on Islamist extremists.

His decision to single out two of the world’s most powerful nations caused anger at the Foreign Office and is likely to trigger outrage in Moscow and Beijing.

Relations with Russia are in the deep freeze following last summer’s diplomatic row that saw London expel four suspected spies after Moscow refused to extradite the chief suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.

Tit for tat expulsions, followed by threats from Moscow politicians and shows of strength near British airspace by Russian bombers, have cast a pall over the Government’s relations with the regime of president Vladimir Putin.

The decision by the head of the MI5 to single out Russia and China is understood to have caused consternation at the Foreign Office. It could deal a blow to Gordon Brown’s hopes to visit Beijing in the New Year.

But Mr Evans, who took over as director general of Security Service earlier this year, is frustrated by the way his overstretched resources are being diverted by the volume of spy activity by Russian and Chinese agents.

He is also concerned by the potential “reputational hit” to Britain if allies such as the United States come to believe the UK is unable to protect high-value economic secrets.

Not that the economic conditions are so great now. One Daily Express writer is calling England’s economic landscape similar to a Dickens novel:

Four heroic firefighters lost their lives in the blaze and it seems that they entered the burning premises because they believed that some migrant workers might be inside. According to reports, some of the employees at the warehouse have taken to sleeping there because, after their gruelling 16-hour shifts, they are unable to get to their accommodation in neighbouring towns in the West Midlands.

If this is true, the deaths of the four firefighters should be a permanent rebuke to the Labour Government’s eagerness to use mass immigration as a battering ram against the basic standards of civilised society. Indeed, the fire is a disturbing echo of the harrowing incident that took place on Morecambe Bay in February 2004 when 18 Chinese cockle pickers, all of them migrants, were drowned by rising tides while trying to carry out their grotesquely underpaid work.

Behind all the blather about employee rights this is the real, vicious face of Labour. Through its obsession with immigration, it has created a society where Dickensian conditions now prevail for large swathes of the working poor. At the bottom end of our society no one gains from this cut-throat approach.

Too many of the immigrants who come here from eastern Europe or the Third World are treated like fodder by ruthless employers who know they have nothing to fear from an ­enfeebled, pro-migrant Gov­ern­ment. Some of these foreign workers, particularly in agriculture and retailing, are earning less than £14 a day, have to live in overcrowded accommodation and enjoy no job security or employment rights.

In Boston in Lincolnshire for instance – now one of the capitals of migrant labour – fruit and vegetable pickers earn a pittance for working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, exactly the kind of toil that Victorian reformers campaigned against in the 19th century. As one Pole says of Boston: “The gangmaster rules the town. It is a total disaster.”

In the climate of exploitation, British workers also lose out. With bills to pay, they cannot compete with these poverty wages so they find themselves out of work. Moreover, despite paying ever larger sums in taxes, they see their own local services, such as the NHS and housing, severely overstretched.

The Labour Party, which was ­founded to protect the interests of the British working-class, treats them as undeserving aliens in their own land, smearing them as racists if they object to their own exclusion from the services for which their families have paid.

Sometimes it feels as if we are living in an inverted universe, where we have an ostensibly Left-wing Government that treats the British working class with contempt so that capitalist employers can exploit poor migrant labour.

England’s circling the drain and it’s doubtful America will have the political will to throw them a lifeline.