The police & demonstrations
The met are up to their tricks again, attacking people, klettling thenm & then baming the demonstrators.
The trouble goes back to Thatcher. this might seem an odd claim but many actions have long-term consequences, something that politicians never think about. During the miners' strike the police were politicised. It was no longer their job to protect the people but to attack them to defend those in power. Thgat is the stance that Paul Stephenson takes. remember he was appointed by that well-known nutter Boris Johnson.
You can tell Stephenson is exaggerating & lying to protect his position and those of his more thuggish allies in the police. He manaaged to say that some of those arrested were horrified at the damage they had caused, after they had been shown film of their actions. This does not sound like people going along to demonstrations to cause trouble BUT people caught up in the moment and probably very frustrated by the irresponsible behaviour of the police.
Of course for either the police commissioner or the mayor to admit this would be accepting their own incompetence. This hows the danger of elected police commissioners, they would behave in the same way, any admission of getting things wrong would be disastrous to their chances of re-election so the standards of policing will go downhill, quite slowly but steadily.
The police screwed up badly in London but the media will protect them. You can see all the fuss about the buffoon Charles. The BBC kept referring not to him, but the heir to the throne. Somehow this ought to make it more serious but of course heirs to the throne are two a penny. I am sure that those who know the rules can probably tell who is 25th in line. So there is no shortage op candidates for the throne.
The trouble goes back to Thatcher. this might seem an odd claim but many actions have long-term consequences, something that politicians never think about. During the miners' strike the police were politicised. It was no longer their job to protect the people but to attack them to defend those in power. Thgat is the stance that Paul Stephenson takes. remember he was appointed by that well-known nutter Boris Johnson.
You can tell Stephenson is exaggerating & lying to protect his position and those of his more thuggish allies in the police. He manaaged to say that some of those arrested were horrified at the damage they had caused, after they had been shown film of their actions. This does not sound like people going along to demonstrations to cause trouble BUT people caught up in the moment and probably very frustrated by the irresponsible behaviour of the police.
Of course for either the police commissioner or the mayor to admit this would be accepting their own incompetence. This hows the danger of elected police commissioners, they would behave in the same way, any admission of getting things wrong would be disastrous to their chances of re-election so the standards of policing will go downhill, quite slowly but steadily.
The police screwed up badly in London but the media will protect them. You can see all the fuss about the buffoon Charles. The BBC kept referring not to him, but the heir to the throne. Somehow this ought to make it more serious but of course heirs to the throne are two a penny. I am sure that those who know the rules can probably tell who is 25th in line. So there is no shortage op candidates for the throne.
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