However, a more pertinent question would be why are police forces like the Metropolitan Police not using this act, which prohibits the wearing of quasi military or quasi police political uniforms, against BLM/Marxists, such as the ones shown in the header picture? I’m no lawyer but from my viewpoint and my understanding of the 1936 Public Order Act, what this group is wearing during a protest in Brixton last weekend, would most certainly meet the definition of a ‘political uniform’.

These protestors were wearing an obvious political uniform of a quasi military or police nature. They are wearing them in connection with a political rally and in connection with the furtherance of a political cause. To my mind these uniformed protestors have committed a criminal offence,which begs the question why were these people not arrested?

Could it be that this is just the latest example of the increasingly obvious double standard that exists in British policing. This double standard means that police forces treat crimes by one group ignored by police on the grounds that the perpetrator is from a group with what the Equality Act of 2010 calls a ‘protected characteristic’ in a different way to how other groups are policed. The double standard that sees police forces fearful of enforcing the law against a criminal from one particular group because it would damage ‘community cohesion’?

It certainly looks that way doesn’t it? After all it’s not as if the police and the courts are uninterested in using the 1936 POA when they want to. In 2015 the leader of the nationalist group Britain First, Paul Golding, was convicted by a court of wearing a political uniform and in a separate trial the then deputy leader of Britain First, Jayda Fransen, was also convicted of a similar offence. If the police and courts believed that the sort of political uniforms as worn by some supporters of Britain First, then why cannot this law be applied to the BLM/Marxists.

Take a look at the image above and try to tell me that this isn’t a political uniform. I doubt that you would be able to do so. These uniforms are obviously quasi-military and are in no way similar to demonstrators all wearing tee shirts supporting a particular cause, something that would be permitted under the various public order acts of the United Kingdom. These uniforms pictured above are specifically designed to look, at first glance, as if they are military or police uniforms and the wearing of them in this context is an offence, yet the police stood by and did nothing. Does anybody out there think that if a group of Jews or Catholics or members of a right wing organisation for example all dressed in body armour and police style uniforms would be left alone by the police? The answer is, of course they would not, they’d be nicked and pretty sharpish. In fact in such a situation it is likely that the senior officer in charge of such a demonstration would have cracked down hard on 1936 POA offenders even before the demonstration set off.

The fact that the 1936 POA was not used against this thuggish group of BLM/Marxists tells us a lot about the absolute state of the Metropolitan Police under Commissioner Cressida Dick and her political boss, the Greater London Mayor, Sadiq Khan. It tells us that the Metropolitan Police no longer police’s all Londoner’s equally and without fear of favour in accordance to the Peelian Principles of policing. It tells us that the Metropolitan Police have decided to take the view of the pigs in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. Sadly, the police’s inaction over the political uniforms worn by the BLM/Marxists, shows us that the Metropolitan Police, or at the very least that force’s senior officers, cannot be trusted to be honest and impartial when it comes to policing and that is something which should worry and concern all of us. In both politics and style, the BLM/Marxists have a lot in common with the group that the 1936 POA was brought in to control, Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts and it is shameful in the extreme that this Act is not being used to clamp down on a group that is just as violent and just as racially motivated as Mosley’s lot.