As the file on the murder of Stephen Lawrence is effectively closed, Boris Johnson ought to announce that the immemorial protection against double jeopardy, which is fundamental to the presumption of innocence, was going to be restored at least for offences that were alleged to have been committed after the coming into effect of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Not that the Conservatives defended that ancient liberty at the time, but even so.
What would Keir Starmer say? "Stephen Lawrence"? Stephen Lawrence would have turned 46 this year. Go round Eltham now and and tell the black boys who could have been his sons about how his case "stopped the Met from being racist". Go on. I dare you. And go over the people who had been convicted of offences of which they had previously been acquitted. I would bet you anything you liked that they were disproportionately of a duskier hue.
As well as being almost invariably working-class. At the same time as this announcement, then Johnson ought also to announce the inquiry into Orgreave. Again, what would a former Director of Public Prosecutions say to that?
It didn’t “stop the Met from being racist” because the Met has never been racist. The whole point about the Macpherson Report’s invented charge of “institutional racism” was that it found no evidence of any racist conduct by any individual. It therefore invented an unprovable and unproven claim that the police force as a whole was somehow suffering some collective and asymptomatic affliction.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that the Macpherson Report actually institutionalised racism through the implementation of its recommendation to abolish “colour-blind policing.”
Go round Eltham and tell them that. Go on. I dare you.
DeleteYou know nothing about Eltham, which is near where I grew up. There are many black men from London who speak out against this nonsense about the police-Shaun Bailey, (who grew up on a London council estate) was tweeting about Dawn Butler today and saying she is talking nonsense and the Met have never been racist. We need more prominent BAME voices like his to counter this drivel.
ReplyDelete“Institutional racism” is like the laughable Orwellian charge of “unconscious bias.”
Good luck to you with Shaun Bailey.
DeleteHe’s a top man. Hated by all the right people. You see, he doesn’t have the right opinions for a black man from a single mother home in a London council estate. And he’s a Tory. The Left really hates people like him.
ReplyDeleteHe is a career unelectable. It gets him media gigs, but that is what he is.
DeleteHe’d only struggle to get elected in the multicultural leftwing republic of London-a place where Sadiq Khan can preside over exploding knife crime and murder (because of his “anti racist” crackdown on the stop-and-search Boris Johnson successfully implemented) as well as bankrupt the transport network, and yet still be popular because he’s Labour. I couldn’t care less if Bailey is unpopular there. A conservative in London is rarer than a Danish cartoonist in a mosque.
ReplyDeleteThe important thing is he’s right, and we need to hear more from pro police, pro British BAME voices such as his and less from the likes of Dawn Butler, telling lies to stir up black grievance culture and anti police sentiment.
Let's see Bailey stand somewhere else, then. You can stand for Parliament anywhere.
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