Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Friday, 29 January 2016
A Good Influence
Whatever else may be said about Lutfur Rahman, this is very good news.
The type of wicked corruption and cronyism we saw from Lutfur Rahman (and Ali Dizaei) is par for the course among police officers and government officials in the clan-based Islamic societies from whence they came.
It'll be upheld. As Ali Dizaei's convictions were.
He may have been the most corrupt and controversial police commander we've ever had (as well as being-unsurprisingly-a regular Guardian columnist) but nobody blinks an eyelid at that sort of thing in the country he came from.
Politics in that neck of the woods is far cleaner now than it was in the days of the Kray and Richardson clans, and the place in general is vastly less violent.
Problems remain, but on nothing like the scale of the Good Old Days that are still largely portrayed in more or less contemporary garb several nights of every week on BBC One.
That is before even mentioning either corruption or violence on the part of the Police in Old London Taaahhhn. Among other places.
You are so right about the Fifties and Sixties, even into the Seventies. London and much of the rest of the country were run by gangsters with politicians and the police on their payrolls or sleeping with them, sometimes both. They always had been. The idea that immigration or whatever corrupted Britain is for those public schoolboys who never became important enough to be corrupted. I doubt even they truly believe it. Britain was always one of the most corrupt countries ever to anybody from any other background. It's all being put back like that now, these are dark days.
The type of wicked corruption and cronyism we saw from Lutfur Rahman (and Ali Dizaei) is par for the course among police officers and government officials in the clan-based Islamic societies from whence they came.
ReplyDeleteExcept that it looks as if the whole thing is going to be overturned once it finally comes before a proper judge, as has never previously happened.
DeleteThe East End always was corrupt. In a clan-based way, come to that.
You don't know anything about the East End.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be upheld. As Ali Dizaei's convictions were.
He may have been the most corrupt and controversial police commander we've ever had (as well as being-unsurprisingly-a regular Guardian columnist) but nobody blinks an eyelid at that sort of thing in the country he came from.
Changing the subject, I see.
DeletePolitics in that neck of the woods is far cleaner now than it was in the days of the Kray and Richardson clans, and the place in general is vastly less violent.
Problems remain, but on nothing like the scale of the Good Old Days that are still largely portrayed in more or less contemporary garb several nights of every week on BBC One.
That is before even mentioning either corruption or violence on the part of the Police in Old London Taaahhhn. Among other places.
You are so right about the Fifties and Sixties, even into the Seventies. London and much of the rest of the country were run by gangsters with politicians and the police on their payrolls or sleeping with them, sometimes both. They always had been. The idea that immigration or whatever corrupted Britain is for those public schoolboys who never became important enough to be corrupted. I doubt even they truly believe it. Britain was always one of the most corrupt countries ever to anybody from any other background. It's all being put back like that now, these are dark days.
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