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(not satire – it’s UK today)
We all know the Tories and the police have fallen out.
First of all, the Tories surprised everyone by announcing drastic cuts in police pensions.
The police meanwhile – no doubt coincidentally – announced they were investigating historical accusations of a paedophile ring involving senior – very senior – members of the Tory Party.
Then we had plebgate.
Not long after that, the Tories announced even more drastic cuts in police pay and conditions.
Then just days later the police decided – for the first time ever despite accusations going back decades – that they were turning their probe into child abuse by senior Tory politicians into a full-blown criminal investigation.
Coincidence?
Maybe. But whatever Andrew Mitchell did or didn’t say at the gates of Downing Street – he did admit he swore at the officers during an argument. This in itself is evidence that the relationship between top Tories and police was already at a low point even before the plebgate incident ever happened.
So what’s going on? What’s the cause of all this bad blood – especially on the part of the Tories?
Well. Some people are saying the Tory leadership is secretly furious with the Met’s refusal to ignore or shelve the evidence of child abuse handed to them by the Labour MP Tom Watson.
Of course, I’m not saying there’s any link between that and these events.
It’s probably all just a case of unfortunate coincidence.
Most likely I’m just putting two and two together and getting five.
No connection at all.
Probably.
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If you really want to know just how bad the relationship has got between the Tory Party and the police, have a look at a post on the subject from the Inspector Gadget blog. Don’t forget to read the comments too:
The Conservatives and the police fall out of love
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Lord McAlpine in his own damning words – The New Machiavelli?
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totally agree but one will eventually back down hope it is not the police
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Judging by the mood of many police officers – it doesn’t look like they’ll be backing down. If I was a Tory I’d be extremely worried about that.
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I see that Paul McKeever, the President of the Police Federation, has died from what is thought to have been an embolism.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21076266
If the report is true, then he’ll finally have something in common with those innocent victims of police gunfire, Harry Stanley and Juan Charles de Menezes.
All three were killed by a bloody clot.
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From the cops blog linked:
“The fact is that it was a deal. We have done our part and the Conservatives are seen as betraying that service.”
Your part was to kick and beat other people who objected to having their pensions stolen by the tories. Suck it up.
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I find the sublime irony of this whole thing grin inducing.
Here we have a corrupt political class reneging on a done deal with a corrupt and politicised Police force. And the Police force’s only gambit for revenge is to actually do what they are supposed to do and investigate a serious crime.
Such is the state of the nation.
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For once, I don’t think there is a connection. I believe the reason the Tories are cutting police pay and conditions is probably because they eventually want to privatise the service, at the behest of their corporate paymasters, e.g. G4S.
I still don’t trust the police to investigate child abuse properly, given that so many former (and current?) senior policemen are right up to their necks in it. I will be amazed if anyone really powerful were actually arrested.
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Child abuse cops seize VIP list: Politicians, MI5 agent, Royal aide and pop stars all named
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-seize-vip-list-in-dawn-1546351
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There are two distinct issues here. The relationship between the police and the Conservative Party was bad before the coalition took office. The police raided the offices of a Conservative shadow-minister in order to locate a whistle-blower Labour wanted because of the information he was leaking over immigration issues. On comming to power Cameron wanted to bring in outside expertise; Labour, the BBC and the police Confederation waged a war to stop this happening. Events since have prooved conclusively that Cameron was right to seek expert outside advice upon the Metropolitan police force. Let us look at its recent performance; in 2010 it both allowed and then did not properly control a left-wing demonstration, ostensively run by students, ostensively against an increase in student fees. Anyone who knows anything about left-wing demonstrations in London, knows they turn ugly. The ‘students’ looted Totenham Court Road, were allowed to assault the royal family, and allowed entry into Conservative Party headquarters by our heroic police. The following summer they stood back and watched while London was burnt and looted. When the prime minister returned from his holiday and held a COBRA meeting, police leave was cancelled, (no one had thought to do this in the previous three days). He then made a very mild claim for some of the credit; as to be expected the Labour party, the BBC and the Police Confederation decried this, stating he was claiming the credit for the work of the emergency services. Oddly in 2007 Gordan Brown claimed wholesale the credit for the work of the emergency services during the floods of that year. Perhaps the police should get on with the work of policing, rather than appointing our goverment for us.
The other issue is the police investigation into the Elms ‘hostel’. It is important to note that ‘hostels’ were almost entirely unregulated in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I worked in one, for young offenders, (meaning from 18 to 25 ish, it was essentially what would be called a bail hostel). It had been set up by a previous vicar, and had a managment committee from the local church, and was funded by both goverment and local authorities. It had at least one schedule 1 offender on the staff, and my immediate manager, was later imprisoned for offences against several boys aged between about 11 to 15, (not conected to this hostel). The senior manager belonged to a lay Church of England brotherhood, and seemed to live with an ex-resident. It is also important to note, that not many of the young males who resided in this hostel had been ‘in care’, some seemed to have been just taken on by the Vicar in the 1960’s. Was it an ‘unruly house’ – it most certainly was, the police had to be called in on several occassions, (in order to do this permision had to be sought in advance from the managment committee). Most of the young males resident were fuelled by a mixture of party-drugs, LSD and cheap alcohol. I was assaulted on two occassions, losing some teath, and also nearly being knifed with a bread knife, by one of the older residents who had been in Rampton. Were there any celebrities, MPs or senior police officers visiting, sadly not. From what I have read the hostel I worked in was quite ‘formal’ compared with the Elms. For the conspiracy theorists at CHRIS and other web-sites two residents died in the twelve months I worked there, one from inhilation of vomit, the other from chronic alcohol poisoning. The premature death of the young people who lived in the homes in north wales and elsewhere is not surprising. Nor is the premature death of the ‘owner’ of the Elms surprising, she ran a disorderly house, where sexually and I would assume with alcohol and drugs most things were ok. Her own child was removed from her. The evidence, and it is out there, was allegedly gathered from this source by a social worker; it is not clear why, or indeed why they had this information at home, many years later, and I at least can see no valid reason for this. This is the primary source for the claims of Mr Whatson, that there was a ‘ring’ of Conservative abusers. Appart from the inherent unreliability of the witnesses involved, (this is no reflection upon them, but simply the whatever happened to them to cause them to be in the Elms), there is going to be an additional problem. Some of the acts alegedly committed will have been illegal then, and are legal now; others would have been illegal both then and now, and others may have been legal then and illegal now; the law has changed many times since the early 1980’s.
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