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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
When she was Home Secretary, Theresa May decided that police officers who are disabled or injured in the line of duty should face a pay cut. Or the sack.
A report into changes in police officers’ pay and conditions was completed in 2012. But in 2014, Theresa May suddenly decided to implement some of the more controversial changes recommended in the report – including this part:
The Disabled Police Association said injured and disabled officers would be ‘substantially disadvantaged’ by the changes:
Pay reforms: Disabled officers ‘substantially disadvantaged’
They were ignored. And as always – little of this was reported in the mainstream press.
Which is exactly what always happens whenever there is any news about how despicably the sick and disabled are treated by this government.
Not to mention our brave emergency services, police officers, nurses, paramedics, fire fighters …
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Pride's Purge 
Well you know what will happen don’t you? Police will then be up in arms in support of their fallen and disabled comrades, which is only right and proper, and we will end up with a Police Force unwilling to make any effort to fight crime because they are being unfairly treated. Apparently the Tories have not learned that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
Also remember that this is now really the runup to next year’s general election, You would think that the Tories would be fighting to get the approval of everybody by appearing to be the magnanimous caring pollitical party, but there is another side to this; the side where they put in as many awful polices as they can in order to scupper the incoming government. They know that whatever government comes in next year, if it’s not them, will have to spend a lot of time undoing what the previous government has done and that the population will get annoyed because they will forget that it was the previous government that screwed everyone. They will then blame the new government for all the ills perpetrated to them by this current government. They will become disenchanted and start muttering about having a new party in power. “Let’s have the Tories, they didn’t make as much mess as this lot have!” Clearly forgetting that the mess was caused by the Tories and the Lib Dems, let’s not forget them!
The general population in the main have the attention span of a gnat. I am sorry to say it, but they do. They are too wrapped up in themselves and watching reality television or gooing over celebrities and Royals to stop and realise that a lot of the policies the government bring in are not to their advantage.
The poor Police are just the latest casualties in this war the government are waging on everyone but themselves. My sympathies go out to them, I am a disabled pensioner with cancer and i say, “Welcome to my world”!
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expect a few torys to be fitted up for something soon.
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Reblogged this on Stuartsorensen's Blog and commented:
Awful. Just awful!
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If the police accept this, more cuts would be implemented in due course.
If the police resist this, “work to rule” or even try to withdraw their labour, they will be replaced by private security goons employed by Crapita or Serco.
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When was the Equality Act 2010 repealed?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/15
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/149
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“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Oh, really?
Since when was that needed?
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Or was it because I included links to the Equality Act 2010 to show that the kakistocracy seems quite determined to break the law?
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Thank you for your support. Most public service workers, if not most workers, are being royally shafted by this mob. I expect little better from the shadow government.
Could be worse, could be a firefighter!
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id love to see that.
i doubt if they would be much good against rioters.
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ATOS is a sponsor of the Commonwealth games in Glasgow: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/crunch-vote-on-atos-commonwealth-games-role.22273861
Evidently ATOS must have won the vote…
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Like the Infamous Culex, my first thought was ‘surely this is in contravention of the Equalities Act’? Also, might any collaborative attempt to contest this policy be considered as falling within the remit of the new Gagging Law and be declared illegal?
In addition, if 8% of basic pay is £2922, that means there’s a sliding cutoff below around £36,000, (point 7 for PCs). For all others (Sgt point1 upwards), £2922 becomes a fixed deduction representing a progressively deacreasing fraction of basic salary as one rises among the ranks.
So once again, even though the police are reasonably well paid, it is the lowest paid among them, working at the sharp end of life who are penalised the most. How long before some government ‘slip-of-the-tongue’ brackets them with ‘benefit scroungers’, I wonder, or decides that local policing can be left to volunteers from the resident community (or to Capita, Serco, Group 4…)?
Welcome to our world!
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oh great less coppers to catch me.
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Reblogged this on glynismillward189.
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Surely this all falls MASSIVELY afoul of the Disability Discrimination Act? Yet more proof that this government thinks they’re above the law…
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This shows how massively perverse the Tories are. Maggie improved pay and conditions for the police in order to turn them into her private army – as the chief constable himself acknowledged in a radio interview. The backbone of traditional Tory support and appeal was the maintenance of national security and law and order – the armed forces and the police. The Tories’ cuts are decimating the forces, while this punishes the rozzers. It actually seems in this instance that the Tories are doing their best to alienate voters.
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The Infamous Culex: WordPress automatically moderate some comments with links. probably ones they think might be spam – I haven’t worked out their criteria. Anyway, it should be visible now.
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Well as they seem determined to piss off the frontline armed forces and police, should there be a revolt amongst the peasants, they’ll have to rely on G4S to quash it.
Revolution sucessful within 24 hours as G4S fail to find enough thugs to hire!
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Have you been in a coma for the last 20 years? How can anyone who was in Britain and of even average intelligence seriously put the blame for everything bad at this time upon THIS government rather than the PREVIOUS one?
The 13 years of LABOUR government has left Britain in a catastrophic mess as it concentrated entirely upon serving the desires of the employers and landowners,you know THE RICH! Labour betrayed the entire Working Class to eternal poverty and one day they will be made to pay for this betrayal,and it wont be with Bitcoins!
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They are claiming the officers come under Police Regs and this act doesn’t apply to police. The Federation also agreed wholeheartedly to these changes. Both them and the goverment are disgusting. With any luck someone will take them to court and get it stopped
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I’m a bit worried that my theory (which I thought was satire) is actually true. The Tories DON’T want to win the next election. Instead they want to go on holiday and spend what they salted away for themselves when they sold off the Royal Mail and similar National Assets dirt cheap. The incoming government is completely screwed, having a country with not only no council houses, but no working police force, no working NHS, no working passport or border controls, and with a decimated civil service composed of a rump of people who for various reasons were unwilling or unable to leave when their pay and conditions were cut to the bone, A country in which you can’t even be sure who owns a property because the Land Registry has been privatised.
If the newly elected government makes a serious and even partially successful attempt to sort this out, it is likely top bear fruit just as the Tory boys (or will they be men by then?) come back from their holiday in time for the 2020 election and tell everyone that the 4 years of hell the country has been through is the fault of the incumbent government failing to fix the roof when the sun was shining. Consolidate with accusations of economic mismanagement, supported by graphs with big red and blue lines on, and photographs of Gordon Brown or Ed Balls (hideous, naturally) and that should be enough to let the Tories back in. (It worked at the last election, why wouldn’t it work again?)
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Having been a police officer I can understand the dilemma. The one factor that is being overlooked here is that a disabled serving police officer is unable to progress his service career due to the onset of ill health or a disability and is virtually stuck as far as promotion goes, whereas, as a civilian support worker he or she has the education and experience to excel in many of the jobs now done by civilians. Therefore, it naturally follows that promotion is possible and is more than likely in fact – in the vast majority of cases.
Who wants a dead-end job? Not many of us I’d wager! Give me a chance to do something I am capable of doing well and I’d take that without hesitation and start to enjoy the new responsibility – far better than feeling to be a passenger in an actively demanding profession.
It is a credit to a force that shows genuine concern – what’s the use of putting a square peg in a round hole? Apart from that, all governments control police numbers severely and how can a force operate effectively if a proportion of its staff assigned to active duty are rendered incapable by some misfortune. Whereas, in another role that individual could be offered the opportunity to play a vital service where active police personnel have been removed and replaced by civilian staff – putting a skilled ex-police office in place would be an asset all round and the person so placed would have reason to feel valued again.
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The Federation turned into Quislings when Teresa “Mad Madam Mim” May threatened them with disbandment by Act of Parliament; that such would openly violate their Right to Freedom of Association did not seem ever to have entered that evil harpy’s tiny mind.
The Equality Act does apply to police authorities in England – section 1(3)(k).
There is nothing in the law that suggests police authorities are exempt. Parliament seems to be exempt, as does the Church of England, the Security Service, the “Intelligence Service” and GCHQ – perhaps because all of those believe that they are only answerable to God – but police authorities are not/
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You would think they would have enough sense not to antagonize their own bodyguards. Basically they want to mess up as many things as they can before the voters evict them.
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When will Halliburton be invited to run the Navy, or Euro Disney asked to run the Monarchy?
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How can anyone assume that disgust with the current batch of troughers equates to supporting the other bastards? Not all of us subscribe to the tribal two party attitude. I expect nothing better from the main opposition. They have said and done NOTHING to indicate things will improve with them in charge.
That said, you must have been asleep since the last election if you think the current state of the country (hundreds of thousands of kids under- & malnourished, massive rise in homelessness, sick & disabled committing suicide in despair, health services sold off to their mates & themselves, vital public services slashed to the bone) isn’t the fault of the Coalition.
Take the Tory vs Labour blinders off and take a damned good look at exactly what is happening in the country right now.
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Who will man the Tory water canons?! You’d have thought they’d want to keep the police sweet!
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who needs police over paid bully`s why dont we give g4s the contract 😉
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