Right then, kiddies, the pub beckons, and I can hardly decline, so I'm gone for the day. Have fun . . .
243 days ago
RT @rattlecans: How many suicides will occur in the UK before Lab Party is willing to reconsider their policies and attitudes to the poo ...
244 days ago
@crimsoncrip Yep - excellent day, thanks. A friend took me to Edale, in the Peak District, a Mecca for walkers… (cont) http://t.co/Ht08I91Q
244 days ago
@nigeldraper Screw that! I don't drive now, but that's way too much interference in what is purely a national, even a local, issue.
244 days ago
@crimsoncrip Thanks for #CT. Bit late - been out all day.
245 days ago
The Police Dupe of the Day Award goes to Prince Charles…
Posted Dec 10 2010 8:01am
I’ve said in an earlier post that the Met is totally out of control. As if in complete confirmation of that, on Radio 4’s Today programme, this morning, Sir Paul Stephenson, Met Commissioner, said the armed officers protecting Prince Charles showed “real restraint” in their handling of the situation.
Seriously? A senior police officer quite clearly believes that killing demonstrating students would have been acceptable? Because I can’t put any other interpretation on that comment.
Well, it’s not as if the Met doesn’t have form when it comes to killing innocent people, from Blair Peach to Ian Tomlinson, not to mention Jean Charles de Menezes (nobody punished for any of the three – anyone surprised?), and doubtless others I’ve forgotten (I recall a totally innocent guy blown away in his own car by armed police).
The question is, though, what the hell were Charles and Camilla doing there in the first place? Their own security MUST have been aware of the situation, and could have directed them away from trouble, So why didn’t they? There seems no excuse for the failure to do so.
Either the escort police failed utterly in their duty or, as the cynic in me firmly believes, the dumping of Charles and Camilla into the middle of a demo was nothing less than deliberate provocation. Had he or Camilla been killed or even injured, it would have been the perfect excuse for deploying armed police at all future demos.
I’ve said in an earlier post that the Met is totally out of control. As if in complete confirmation of that, on Radio 4’s Today programme, this morning, Sir Paul Stephenson, Met Commissioner, said the armed officers protecting Prince Charles showed “real restraint” in their handling of the situation.
Seriously? A senior police officer quite clearly believes that killing demonstrating students would have been acceptable? Because I can’t put any other interpretation on that comment.
Well, it’s not as if the Met doesn’t have form when it comes to killing innocent people, from Blair Peach to Ian Tomlinson, not to mention Jean Charles de Menezes (nobody punished for any of the three – anyone surprised?), and doubtless others I’ve forgotten (I recall a totally innocent guy blown away in his own car by armed police).
The question is, though, what the hell were Charles and Camilla doing there in the first place? Their own security MUST have been aware of the situation, and could have directed them away from trouble, So why didn’t they? There seems no excuse for the failure to do so.
Either the escort police failed utterly in their duty or, as the cynic in me firmly believes, the dumping of Charles and Camilla into the middle of a demo was nothing less than deliberate provocation. Had he or Camilla been killed or even injured, it would have been the perfect excuse for deploying armed police at all future demos.
I simply cannot see any other explanation.