Tim Stanley urges support for the Police, thereby lining up with David Lammy and Chuka Umunna to make Ed Miliband's point: Labour is now the only party of the existence and values of the middle class, and that only since it became Labour again during this Parliament.
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If the police earned and deserved our trust , politicians wouldn't need to "urge support for the police".
ReplyDeleteThe police have recently admitted they literally invent lower crime figures by not recording crimes. And Miliband wants us to support this joke?
When the police get back to being one of us again, as they were before Home Secretary Roy Jenkins got hold of them, they'd have the public support they once enjoyed.
When they bin the DNA databases, endless paperwork , panda cars, guns, diversity training, Fixed Penalty Notices (and other un-British extrajudicial punishments ) and get back to pounding the streets, alone and unarmed.
And the Fairy Tale Crime Figure Factories need to go, too.
Reading the revelations of West Midlands Police Inspectors on the widespread deceitful manipulation of crime figures to meet New Labours targets, I tremble to think what our great ancestors would have thought of all this.
ReplyDeleteThe inventors of the British constable would have been utterly horrified at what the police have become.
The British never wanted a police force-the Tories feared it would become a corrupt nationalised armed gendarmerie ,feared and mistrusted by the people, like the Continental versions.
Robert Peel arrived at a neat compromise- small , local totally-unarmed foot- patrolling groups of. "citizens in uniform".
The modern nationalised, (and now armed) non- patrolling body, loyal to state targets and not to the people, could not be more utterly different from their forebears.
Yes, Margaret Thatcher has a lot to answer for. But things are improving.
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