Politicians should honour London Bridge attack victims. Instead, they’ve dragged the families into a childish blame game

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy After every terrorist atrocity, the politicians mumble the usual platitudes about “thoughts with the victims’ families”, pay tribute to the outstanding bravery of the police and members of the public, and then declare, with a solemn face, that they have no intention to use it for political advantage… “But”. The bodies are still not buried, yet suddenly it’s “Labour failed”, or, “you Tories were in power for 10 years and did nothing”, or, “you abolished our laws”, or, “it’s the judges fault for letting him out”, or “austerity” or “I’m Boris Johnson and I’ve only been in power for four months so not me guv”. You would not be surprised to see “activists” turning up outside the memorial services with banners saying “Corbyn Loves Terrorists” or “Tory Cuts Mean Murder on our Streets” or “Blame Bliar for Starting Wars”. You would think, from listening to social media and the like, that a combination of David Blunkett, Ken Clarke, Nick Clegg, Lord Leveson, a small army of lawyers and the combined forces of the security services, the probation service, and the police had spent the last couple of decades finding ways to make it easier for people such as Usman Khan to murder us.