FORMER Prime Minister Tony Blair is on record as saying the Iraqi regime change he promulgated in partnership with the Americans was justified on the basis that the end result was a safer world.

He told the Chilcot Inquiry: “It was better to deal with this threat, to remove him from office and I do genuinely believe the world is a safer place as a result.”

The removal of Col Gaddafi as President of Libya was supposed to herald a new dawn in Middle East affairs, a fitting climax to the oft-praised Arab Spring. How sad that Tunisia, where the first shoots of that supposed popular uprising took place, is today the focus of attention as an Islamic extremist murders tourists as they seek sand, sea and sunshine in that country.

Mr Cameron has asked the people of Swindon to believe that foreign aid spending is as much about maintaining security in the United Kingdom as it is about bringing democracy and freedom to the peoples of other countries.

Some might suggest paying out billions of pounds in foreign aid has not made our country any safer.

Indeed Mr Cameron is on record as saying: “We face a very severe threat in our country and we have done for many months and many years.” Clearly, we have been unable to "buy" peace or security.

The rhetoric of Mr Cameron on this issue is little different from his statement in Munich in 2011 and in London on August 28, 2014.

He expresses outrage, promises action and talks in fluffy language about the need for action. Sadly, Mr Cameron is moulded from the same clay and in the same image as Tony Blair.

He seeks to be popular and offers conciliatory words as opposed to decisive actions. He speaks in metaphors more suited to Foreign Office mandarins and worse, he makes promises he knows he cannot fulfil.

Do the British people feel safer as result of anything the Government says? I suspect not.

DES MORGAN Caraway Drive, Swindon