With those toe-curling pictures of Johnson toasting health, while Britain was in full lockdown and many were not allowed to visit dying relatives, we have established that there is absolutely nothing in government’s so called accountability…. We have now the probability of the Metropolitan Police not having investigated Partygate as comprehensively as they could in… Read more
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Starmer’s small beer
It seems to me that Keir Starmer is very unlikely to have broken the law, simply because as a QC and ex Director of Public Prosecutions he will know what was permitted. Durham Police have found that he has no case to answer once already – they are looking again – apparently because there is… Read more
The only fascist state where the trains do not run on time…
If the UK is not a failed state it seems well on the way to a fascist one, now that the Lords has voted down amendments that would disallow the Electoral Commission to be supervised by a government minister – a scheme that the Electoral Commission itself argued against. Photographic identity is to be compulsory… Read more
The best leader the Police Federation never had
I much agree with this David Allen Green comment on the resignation of Cressida Dick. Even in her parting comments she confused the Metropolitan Police’s interests with those of London itself. It is true that the Metroploiltan Police are inextricably bound up with the state – and indeed they have more police per head than… Read more
Met Police crisis accurately reflects Conservative small government narrative…
I think that Priti Patel , who had to pay out for unfair dismissal (let us not forget) for her bullying, is entirely unsuited to any part in recruiting a police officer. Chief or Constable. She has nonetheless said that she needs “strong and decisive leadership” to restore confidence in the Metropolitan Police. It is… Read more
Cressida Dick’s resignation and iznomoney…
Her resignation is, I suggest, long overdue. She should have taken the command hit for instructing her officers to kill Jean Charles de Menezes and being complicit in constructing a false report around his death. She should also have properly investigated ‘Vote Leave’. and acknowledged police institutional corruption – even if and when it was… Read more
Jolyon Maugham speaks to Owen Jones
I thought this interesting 17 minutes well worth it – in which Jolyon Maugham outlines his incredulity at the corrupt government practices he discovered and what he and the Good Law Project are trying to do about it: Jolyon Maugham explains things simply and well – and in the current situation his Good Law Project… Read more
Particular threat for the Met Police
Many organisations are going to face a huge challenge trying to rebuild public trust when this government is finally thrown out. And surely and most prominently, the Metropolitan Police will find it particularly difficult? Their chief, who was probably a onetime spy, are now too close to this overtly corrupt, Conservative government, to suggest they… Read more
A message to Cressida
The voice over is apparently by Adrian Dunbar, who, appropriately, has played Superintendent Ted Hastings in all of the BBC TV series about Police corruption – ‘Line of Duty’. It is a nice touch to take the message to the woman – sorry ‘Dame’…… Read more
Good Law Project – Good News
A little positive news! The Good Law Project is threatening legal action by judicial review against the Metropolitan Police unless they investigate last year’s government parties, or give written reasons why they are not doing so. Their nine page letter is linked here. That should give Dame Cressida something to think on…… Read more