What the f**k is going on?

Sorry if my language offends.

Actually, I’m not sorry at all.

WHAT THE F**K IS GOING ON?

Even before he'd been officially named we learned that one of the three London terrorists, Khuram Butt, had appeared on national TV last year in a documentary called ‘The Jihadists Next Door.’

Oh, and he was seen on camera by millions of Channel 4 viewers, unfurling an ISIS flag.

What worries me is that the woman most likely to win the election, Theresa May, has proven herself to be a disastrous defender of our national security, writes Piers Morgan

London Bridge ringleader Khuram Butt and another man who went on to become an Islamic State executioner were not the only two spouting extremist views on The Jihadis Next Door

I couldn’t believe what I was watching.

What more could this despicable radicalised scumbag have done to signal his intentions to commit harm on this country?

He literally raised the ultimate warning flag of the most dangerous terror group the world has ever known.

Yet it transpires that there WAS one more obvious clue he could have given.

For today, we discover that another of his evil cohorts, Youssef Zaghba, informed authorities: ‘I’m going to be a terrorist!’

Yes, he actually told them that.

I’m not making this up.

Zaghba was stopped at Bologna Airport in Italy in March last year as he attempted to travel to Istanbul on a way one ticket that would lead him to Syria.

Asked about his intentions he replied: ‘I’m going to be a terrorist.’

Concerned by his response, and his ‘agitated’ manner, security staff immediately called police and he was blocked from flying.

ISIS propaganda videos were found on his phone and an investigation was launched.

But the Italians decided there was insufficient evidence to charge him.

He was given back his phone and passport and allowed to go on his merry little jihadist way.

Now it’s been reported that Italian intelligence officers sent a file on Zaghba to our own British security services.

They also listed him as a suspected ‘foreign fighter’ on international databases including the EU-wide Schengen Information System that has details of wanted or missing people.

Yet our authorities did nothing to stop him from entering Britain so he could carry out mass murder.

Just as they did nothing to check out Butt and his jihadist pals once that documentary aired on Channel 4 last year.

Shockingly, it emerged today that neither the police nor MI5 made any formal request for footage from the makers of The Jihadis Next Door.

Terrorists: Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba massacred seven people in a rampage which started on London Bridge on Saturday night

Police operated a cordon on the north side of London Bridge the day after Saturday's attack

Imagine that for a moment?

The people charged with our protection apparently had zero interest in seeing if there was anything suspicious or actionable on any of the many tens of hours of unused material from a documentary that specifically followed jihadis living in our midst.

Khuram Butt didn’t just flaunt his ISIS sympathies on TV for all to see.

He was also reported several times for extremist behaviour by concerned members of the public.

A neighbour in East London called a police hotline after he tried to convert her son to Islam and when she confronted Butt in a local park, he said he was ready to do, ‘in the name of Allah, what needs to be done, including killing my own mother.’

Nobody called her back.

And he was reported to police and MI5 last July after threatening Dr Usama Hasan, of the anti-extremist think-tank Quilliam.

Butt was later arrested over the incident, but let off with a caution.

‘Kharum Butt verbally and physically assaulted me,’ Dr Hasan said. ‘It’s one thing when someone from the public reports an individual as a violent extremist, but when experts who are involved in deradicalising jihadists report them, a caution is not enough.’

You think??????

The third London terrorist, pastry chef Rachid Redouane, was denied asylum in Britain in 2009, but sneaked in from Ireland, exposing yet another massive loophole in our already severely castigated immigration system.

There are said to be at least 23,000 other suspected jihadis like this hideous trio roaming Britain at the moment, many of them in London.

It is a terrifying thought.

There are many people and organisations that must be held accountable for the abject failure to deal with this crisis.

These include our intelligence agencies and law enforcement chiefs who should have picked up these killers, moderate Muslims and Imams who haven’t done nearly enough to root out the extremists; and internet giants like Facebook and Google who continue to allow them to spew their lethal filth online.

It also includes our elected officials.

When I interviewed London Mayor Sadiq Khan for Good Morning Britain yesterday, he didn’t seem to have a clue about the movement of any of the jihadist suspects.

In particular, he didn’t know where the 200 or so fighters known to have returned from Syria to London might be lurking or what they were doing.

Mr Khan, who keeps assuring us London is the safest city on earth, even as more bodies are being found in the river Thames four days after the latest attack, is very quick to abuse US President Donald Trump and call for HIM to be banned from Britain.

Yet he doesn’t appear anywhere near as keen to ensure battle-scarred ISIS operatives are banned from coming in.

Sadiq Khan keeps assuring us London is the safest city on earth, even as more bodies are being found in the river Thames four days after the latest attack, writes Piers Morgan

Trump may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I can promise you one thing: if he does come to the UK, he is not going to use vans to run over British citizens, chop them to pieces with knives, or blow them up as they leave pop concerts.

Then there’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his team.

Let me be very clear: I wouldn’t trust Corbyn to keep this country remotely safe. His record in voting against all new terror legislation, his nauseating sucking up to terror groups in the past, and his openly stated refusal to ever use our nuclear deterrent if he ever had to, all make him a walking defence liability of epic proportions.

But as we head to election day tomorrow, most polls suggest Corbyn has less chance of becoming Prime Minister than me.

What worries me far more is that the woman most likely to win the election, Theresa May, has proven herself to be a disastrous defender of our national security.

First as Home Secretary and more recently as Prime Minister.

She is the one who slashed our police force by 20,000, thus directly harming our ability to gather vital intelligence on the ground from the communities where these jihadists live. ‘Stop crying wolf!’ she arrogantly declared when they warned of dire consequences. Now the real wolves are at our door wreaking destruction.

She is the one who decimated our armed police numbers by over 1,500, thus removing from the front line of our defences the kind of brilliant expert rapid-response marksmen we saw in action last Saturday night.

She is the one who abandoned control orders that might have kept some kind of observational lid on these monsters.

She is the one who has now had three massive ISIS terror attacks happen on her brief watch as our nation’s leader.

She is the one now wanting us to believe that there is nobody better suited to deal with this clear and present danger than her.

‘How on earth could we have let this guy or possibly more through the net,’ Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson demanded to know yesterday, about Kharum Butt. ‘What happened?’

Well, I’ll tell you what happened, Foreign Secretary.

You and your government dropped the ball so badly that a whole load of your citizens got murdered and maimed.

That’s what happened.

And the person ultimately responsible for these failures was your boss.

She can now spout all the tough terror talk she likes, but I wouldn’t trust Theresa May to protect me from an angry wasp, let alone an ISIS jihadi.