Having invaded the Middle East a dozen times in the last hundred years, the UK's caped crusader routine - is less cape more crusader. A Downing Street spokesperson said: ‘Any connection between the threat level and this being an election year, is purely coincidental. The Islamic State is a threat we’ve known…or they will be, the moment we get involved. Which is why we would like to raise the investment opportunity for the arms industry from ‘rich’ to 'filthy rich'.’
