London is suffering from a epidemic of crime. It’s a situation that is getting worse under the twin incompetencies of Sadiq Khan the Mayor who is also Police and Crime Commissioner and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Dame Cressida Dick. This pair have done little to counter a rising tide of crime that has seen stabbings and murders become so commonplace that they are often not widely reported or when they are reported, are not front page material. Murders that would once, because of their unusual brutality, have made the front page of the national tabloids, now barely make the inside pages of local newspapers, so common have these crimes become.
Contacts I have in London have reported to me that there are Neighbourhood Watch leaders who have given up trying to serve their communities because of the indolence and incompetence of the police. These people, who once worked hard in Neighbourhood Watch groups to make their areas better and safer are now throwing up their hands in disgust at how they are policed and getting out of London if they can.
I’ve lost count of the number of murders that have occurred in London over the last two to three years, which gives me some idea of how many there have been. Londoners are not safe from other crimes either. Property crime, sex crime and offences against the person are increasingly numerous, yet there is very little of the high profile policing that is needed in order to deter these offences. Because of bad policing and let’s not forget the by now obvious political biases of the Met such as inequitable policing of demonstrations, the kneeling for the BLM/Marxist group and a fixation on ‘hurty words’ on social media, a lot of confidence in the police has been lost.
I suspect that more confidence will be lost in the Met and more disgust at their morphing into a force that concentrates on ‘nothingburgers’ will come from this latest story of Met Police poor prioritisation which comes from the Reuters news agency. According to Reuters, the Met Police are investigating a banner flown by fans of the Crystal Palace football team which criticised the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United. Apparently the Met are investigating this banner for ‘racism’.
I see no ‘racism’ in this banner, which is reproduced below so that you all can see what the Met are getting their collective knickers in a twist about.
I also see no lies in the content of this banner. All the criticisms made of Saudi Arabia on the banner are legitimate and many have also been made by well known and often highly respected human rights NGO’s. Whilst I understand that there might be positive changes in Saudi Arabia in the future, under a new generation of leaders, it can’t be denied that the current and former regimes in Saudi Arabia have been heavily involved in oppression, persecution, terrorism, murder and civil rights abuses. The country is also known as one of the few that still have beheading as a criminal punishment. There’s no dishonesty in the Crystal Palace fan’s banner and certainly no racism. These are statements of fact and it makes the Met look even worse than than they look already to take resources that are urgently needed to curb the tsunami of crime that is engulfing London and waste them on a nothingburger case like this. I have no doubt that this will raise questions among Londoners as to who the Met are truly working for. Are they working for the benefit of the people of London or are they working for the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?
“Are they [the Police] working for the benefit of the people of London or are they working for the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?”
Probably a little closer to home in a sense.
The Met would appear to be working to stifle any criticism of Islam or Muslims in alignment with the APPG report on ‘Islamophobia’ which said that any criticism of “Muslimness” (which was left undefined) is “racism”, this despite the National Police Chiefs’ Council rejecting the report; on the other hand Major Khan has accepted it (surprise, surprise) so perhaps the Met’s attitude is also no surprise, it merely reflects that of their boss.
To be fair to the Met, if that banner was reported to them as “hateful” they HAVE to record it as a “hate incident”, how much time and effort they put into deciding whether it “crosses the threshold” to be a hate crime is another matter.
The other point here is that few in the MSM bother to differentiate between hate incidents (which are totally subjective) and hate crimes (which are somewhat less so), thus it is in the interests of “grievance mongering takkiya artists” (to borrow a phrase) to make as many reports of “hate” as possible in order to big-up the ‘Islamophobia’ etc. stats when the MSM makes an FOI request since this feeds the victimhood narrative and its lowerarchy of status.
As I’ve written on a number of previous occasions, too many police forces seem to have been captured by censorious identity politics groups and this has had a bad effect on how we are policed. There does seem to be a general silencing of criticism of Islam and this is in my view a bad thing as it prevents us discussing openly and without fear aspects of Islam that should give us concern.
As for the banner incident it does indeed give the unfortunate impression that Met officers taking its orders from the Saudis and not Scotland Yard.
UK policing has degenerate into a national disgrace. Its only a matter of time until people give up on the police and turn to self help, this was the very situation the police were set up to avoid. Our police have become little more than a PC, woke organization only interested in their next promotion and pay rise. Anything that threatens either of those goals has no chance of being taken seriously. We are on a slippery slope and at the bottom of it is the vigilante and the lynching mob but our woke and self serving police and politicians are only concerned with filling their own pockets and getting up the greasy pole.
Too many police forces have allowed themselves to be turned into ‘police farces’ by identity politics and political correctness.
I knew I was supporting the right team. With Wilfred Zaha refusing to kneel to the BLM. As for the banner, how is it waaaycist when it’s telling the truth. Best of luck to the Plods trying to get a conviction or even a charge that even the useless COS will laugh at. More sinister is this attempt to stifle free expression, “making up the law as the go along”, “interpreting” it to suit, using it to go after soft targets, putting the “frighteners” on people they want to keep quiet and silence. The bastards tried that with me but failed because it was not only ludicrous, but an obvious fit-up with over 200 witnesses including a dozen Plods who probably weren’t prepared to perjure themselves.