".............,and finally, in other news this week"
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,696
The spin that the right are trying to put on what was clearly a massive own goal yesterday is highly amusing.
Cheered me right up.
The right wing protesters have massively shot themselves in the foot here as Suella for stirring them up.
Absurd to attack the police as
"woke". The police come under the authority of the Conservative government and the Conservative Home Secretary.
Who has now alienated most of the electorate by insulting the police.
She's an idiot.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 12th November 2023, 8:46 AMIt's not new at all. Theresa May gave the police a hammering when she was HS yet she didn't get the grief this one's getting for just pointing out what everyone knows, that the Police now follow Woke Law. And they will always favour the party in charge and that's Labour at the mo.
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The government pays the Police, so technically the Conservatives are their boss and customer. But given how their boss has been behaving, it doesn't surprise me both sides think there's bias. Or that they might be getting ready for the new boss.
Quote: chipolata @ 12th November 2023, 9:24 AMThe notion that the police are 'woke' is ludicrous and not backed up by facts.
"Bristol should be proud, says police chief who let protesters throw Colston statue into harbour https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bristol-should-be-proud-says-police-chief-who-let-protesters-throw-statue-into-harbour-dl80pgfc5
So the police get stick when they are racist and homophobic- and rightly so
And they also get stick for being anti-racist and anti-homophobic too?
What do people want from them?
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 12th November 2023, 2:20 PM"Bristol should be proud, says police chief who let protesters throw Colston statue into harbour https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bristol-should-be-proud-says-police-chief-who-let-protesters-throw-statue-into-harbour-dl80pgfc5
I believe Superintendent Andy Bennett's actual words were "No one got hurt and we had no arrests in the whole protest.
"That is 10,000 passionate people.
Bristol should be proud of itself."
That's not woke, that's effective, modern Policing.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 12th November 2023, 2:20 PM"Bristol should be proud, says police chief who let protesters throw Colston statue into harbour https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bristol-should-be-proud-says-police-chief-who-let-protesters-throw-statue-into-harbour-dl80pgfc5
Public relations fluff. Give me some proper studies and statistics that prove the police are woke, Billy.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 12th November 2023, 8:46 AMIt's not new at all. Theresa May gave the police a hammering when she was HS yet she didn't get the grief this one's getting for just pointing out what everyone knows, that the Police now follow Woke Law. And they will always favour the party in charge and that's Labour at the mo.
Labour are not actually in power.
Dominic Grieve (former Tory attorney general) says "Suella Braverman is incapable of understanding her duty as home secretary in maintaining the right to demonstrate under the rule of law."
"Suella Braverman had no business trying to override the police in the public way that she did. That was a breach of a fundamental rule in our society that the police are independent in how they make their judgments"
"Suella Braverman tried to bully the police into a particular outcome and she had no business doing it.. Sack her, she's clearly unfit to do this particular job"
That's the job that she was sacked from for breaking the ministerial code- then reinstated about one week later
Quote: lofthouse @ 12th November 2023, 2:31 PMSo the police get stick when they are racist and homophobic- and rightly so
And they also get stick for being anti-racist and anti-homophobic too?
What do people want from them?
"To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws." - Robert Peel
Quote: Firkin @ 12th November 2023, 2:50 PMI believe Superintendent Andy Bennett's actual words were "No one got hurt and we had no arrests in the whole protest.
"That is 10,000 passionate people.
Bristol should be proud of itself."
That's not woke, that's effective, modern Policing.
No arrests for serious criminal damage? That's not policing; that's surrender to mob rule.
Quote: Lazzard @ 12th November 2023, 2:41 PM
Quote: Lazzard @ 24th January 2023, 10:28 AMTry imagining a world where people have different tastes & opinions to you.
It might help.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 12th November 2023, 6:44 PM"To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws." - Robert Peel
No arrests for serious criminal damage? That's not policing; that's surrender to mob rule.
145 arrests overall. So far! Clearly not "mob rule".
Easy for armchair critics to launch lazy attacks on the police..