Those crowing about "the miners' revenge" after today's speech by that former Lanchester resident, Theresa May, need to take note that the Miners' Strike was wholly absent from her account of Police faults and failings.
However, every single thing on that list occurred under a Conservative Government.
However, every single thing on that list occurred under a Conservative Government.
This Government is prepared to privatise even the care of vulnerable children. Just imagine the kickbacks to the Coalition parties from Serco and G4S if they were to be given policing.
I for one side unhesitatingly with a trade union defending a public service.
Oh, and Andrew Mitchell admits that he swore at a Police Officer. Anyone else would have been arrested for that. He is not innocent. He is no mere victim.
A picture of Theresa May delivering that speech is now the Police Federation's profile picture on Twitter. At least it has not put her in crosshairs.
A picture of Theresa May delivering that speech is now the Police Federation's profile picture on Twitter. At least it has not put her in crosshairs.
The Police Federation are a corrupt disgrace (see link below) who perfectly epitomise a modern nationalised, unionized police who serve themselves, not the people who pay their oversized wages.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2557149/DAVID-DAVIS-Greedy-touch-bullies.html
Your still going on about a swear word-when the real story (as anyone but a raving imbecile can see) was a police force in a supposedly free country behaving a like a law unto themselves, lying, cheating and conspiring to bring down an elected member of Parliament in a free country.
They should be deported to the third world-where that's all anyone expects of the police.
The battle lines are drawn, all right.
ReplyDeleteBut Rule One of fighting the Police is that the Police win.
They just do. Ask anyone who has ever fought them.
Theresa May is finished.
I'm beginning to see why the British were so dubious about creating a police force. Peel really had to be pushed.
ReplyDeleteWell, if you had any conservative leanings, you'd be on one side of the battle. I'll give you a clue-its not the side of a third world police force of corrupt thugs who've forgotten what made Robert Peel's men different from the Continental gendarmes they are becoming like.
As David Davis, as pro-police as you can get, wrote in that article;
""Consider, for example, the Federation’s luxurious £26million headquarters in Leatherhead, Surrey. This HQ includes a 55-room hotel with a bar, indoor swimming pool and 11 two-bedroom grace-and-favour apartments.
Membership fees had to be raised by 23 per cent in 2010 to cover a hole in the Federation’s finances caused by the purchase of the Leatherhead headquarters.
How ironic that this organisation was specifically designed not to be a trade union – but has now acquired the worst characteristics of the sort of self-serving trades unions we thought we saw the end of in the Seventies.
Last week Fiona McElroy, a former principal private secretary brought in to help it reform itself, was sacked after being told she had ‘alienated’ senior officials.
Ms McElroy had raised ‘serious concerns’ about the management of the Federation’s accounts.
There has been disquiet about some Federation officials’ extensive use of corporate credit cards to pay large bar bills. (The organisation is also currently facing an inquiry by HM Revenue & Customs into up to £2million claimed by some officials as business expenses.)
Ms McElroy confirmed that she had been opposed by a ‘vocal minority’ who were resisting attempts to implement the changes recommended by the independent panel’s report. The problem is, this ‘vocal minority’ appears to be running the show.
The Federation’s accounts reveal that an astonishing sum – almost £8million a year – is spent on litigation on behalf of members.
The Government must act quickly to return the Police Federation to its noble roots, and return effective representation to the police force.
Just yesterday Liberty, the civil liberties group, announced that, if the police officer Toby Rowland – who disputes Andrew Mitchell’s claims that he lied about the MP calling him a ‘pleb’ – launches a libel case against Mr Mitchell, it will seek to intervene in the legal battle in support of the former Chief Whip.
Liberty believes that by holding the threat of legal action over those who disagree with the police’s version of events, it will become impossible to complain about the police’s actions. It is difficult to disagree.
One police widow has accused Federation officials of treating what should have been a dignified memorial day for fallen officers like a ‘drunken jolly’.
The Government must act quickly to return the Federation to its noble roots, and return effective representation to the police force.""
That article sums up almost everything that's wrong with the police.
They've forgotten they're here to serve us in a free country-not the other way around.
Rule One of fighting the Police is that the Police win.
ReplyDeleteThey just do. Ask anyone who has ever fought them.
The Electoral Commission are a disgrace. I voted UKIP at the bottom yet the party at the top was called "UK Independence Now" underneath its main title "An Independence" or whatever.
ReplyDeleteThis is outright electoral fraud.
No, it isn't.
ReplyDeleteExcuses in first, eh?
It plainly is if it confuses voters.
ReplyDeleteNo party would be allowed to stand with the name "Liberal Drmocrat" or "Conservatives" in the title.
The Liberal Party still exists, and it contests elections.
ReplyDeleteYou do not own the words "United", "Kingdom" and "Independence".