Truly nauseating interview with Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens and Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty on Today this morning. The essence, as presented by the BBC, is that the Met are trying to be more polite to street demonstrators and will be tweeting them, providing them with public toilets and bottle of water in future demonstrations. Not sure if aromatherapy is also provided but you can bet it is at least under consideration. However, Universal Shami is still not content with the tactic of “kettling” and you will share my delight that the Met have invited Liberty into their control room for the March 24th TUC coat-trailing exercise through London. Yes, Shami will get to decide if policing meets her high standards. Just two question; WHO elected her that her opinion matters so much and WHY is the Met allowing this particular pressure group such key access?
UNIVERAL SHAMI TO RUN LONDON POLICING
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I wonder if she’ll be just as keen to oversee the policing of any future Countryside Alliance marches?
Perhaps the police are having her on? Even she will have problems criticising them when she witnesses first-hand the UAF/SWP scum causing all the trouble in the first place.
Does anyone know how many of the scores of violent thugs that were arrested at the student protests were actually charged? Last I heard it was only two, but I’ve been out the country for a while.
Yes she will see the provocation and violent acts of the thugs and activists on the demo at first hand, but I bet she will NOT acknowledge it. It will be very interesting to see how she interprets events.
That’s what 13 years of Labour politicisation of the police has produced. A leadership more concerned with being PC than being proper PCs.
You raise some good questions at the end of your piece DV. I take it they weren’t raised on TODAY?
Let’s hope that if a policeman doesn’t tell any demonstrator he interacts with that ‘homosexuality is ok’ the Met will instantly provide facilities for the demonstrators to conduct an immediate trial for such an horrendous Thought Crime. Let’s hope that if he has children the Court of the People’s Justice will immediately take them from him and place them in the care of homosexuals to undo the harm done to them and teach the boys that being given a sore bum is a good thing. One is never to young to learn this in this Brave New World in which we’re living.
Sorry, did I go off on a tangent there?
Control the media and your control the ‘people’ and, hence, country.
Dave et Al might soon twig.
In the control room? I want Shami in the front line of the police ranks when the thugs atttack. She’ll learn a great deal more there.
She’s such a broad-minded and tolerant lady, I’m sure she’d approve of being pelted with lumps of masonry and beaten with the pole of a red flag.
Encouraging these far-left thugs not to do such things is in breach of their human rights . . . .
FFS. This is why I stopped donating money to Liberty.
She – and Liberty – do not understand the difference between negative and positive rights and are willing to defend the latter in preference to the former.
Is there nobody on the BBC speed-dial who could have provided a reasoned (or even unreasoned) contrary view? Again, the Mets senior officers have a perfect right to be stupid – and exercise that right with alarming frequency. Liberty – which is only interested in “liberty” for the causes in which it believes – has a right to do what it does. However, the BBC has an obligation to present a “balanced” view of this latest lunacy.
To anyone in the real world this strategy – indulging the scum – is obvious b*ll*cks but, as I’ve commented on the thread below, the BBC doesn’t show balance and the government doesn’t complain because they agree on this policy and more or less all other BBC-favoured policies. Their only disagreement is on which party should implement those policies.
Let’s face it, the Met and other constabularies are no longer “pollce forces”, nor are they “police services”, they are merely uniformed mouthpieces for their political masters, brainwashed with diversity and targetting, political correctness, and a common desire to irritate and alienate the general public, without committing themselves to their more important (and original) roles of protecting life and property, and upholding the Queen’s peace.
They don’t give a shit about any of it, so long as they can dress like robocop, shout a lot (although that may be for not much longer), and persecute and prosecute the innocent for going about their everyday lives, and for voicing their disquiet about how the fuckin’ country is descending into a pit of ordure…
God help you all.
And as for Shammy Chunkybotty, well, words fail me.
This is going to be interesting. I would imagine at some point, the wheels are going to fall off this little arrangement when they realised she, like the rest of the oh so clever left isn’t qualified for this role.
The problem is that the police want her to advise them on what course of action to take. It doesn’t take a genius to spot the flaw here. Shammy and her ilk have only ever been able to tell the world why the issue they’re banging on about is wrong.
They’ve never actually been able to tell people how to resolve the problem they define. Not only that, they don’t actually want to define what the correct course of action actually is. This is made worse by the fact that their flag bearers at the Beeb and the Guardian have never actually pushed them to define a solution
Offering a solution also screws them because it denies them wiggle room. If somone takes their advice on board and it is junk advice, they’ve got nowhere to run and hide. Their MO is like an Andy & Lou sketch from Little Britain. All they want to be able to say is “I don’t want that one”. They need to be able to jump from position to position in order to maintain their self designated moral advantage. They need others to head into policy cul de sacs, which they know are ambush territory and to be avoided at all costs.
So I expect it will collapse. Shammy will give us some codswallop about how the Met weren’t willing to do certain basic things despite her best intentions, which will be lapped up by the relevant MSM cohort. If not that, I expect her to reject the offer in the next few days. I’m expecting something along the lines that it’s for the police to work this out themselves, they don’t need her or the idea that as part of a healthy vibrant democracy it make sense that Liberty maintains it’s independence from such policy formulation in order to maintain its vital role as an informal checks and balances monitor
Great comments!
This sums everything I’ve always thought about these people, who snipe from a safe distance but never offer positive suggestions of their own. Shammy represents part of the intelligentsia that will never know what its like to confront real-world problems, which are frequently intractable.
Until shammy learns to walk a thousand miles in someone else’s shoes, that is all she’ll ever do.
Pathetic!
The only thing I would say in Shami’s defense is that, back when we had that noise about the Pastor who expressed a thought about burning a Koran, she was the only voice on the BBC who was not in favor of making a law to arrest someone for saying they wanted to burn a Koran. Not for doing it, but for saying they wanted to. Al lthe other talking heads they had on – including Peter Tatchell – were in favor of making it illegal to express a thought.
Other than that she generally comes across as useless and wrong.
So how come nobody at the BBC ever asks why violence and vandalism happens only during certain protests? If the police tactics are to blame and not the agni innocenti in balaclavas and hoodies, why do we never see the ugliness when the EDL protests, for example? Is there a different police force used in those cases?
Something in the BBC’s reporting doesn’t add up here.
Forgot to add: How the hell is it the police’s fault that people not there to do violence “got caught up in it”? Sarah Montague and her producers live in a very twisted world. People were “kettled in the past who shouldn’t have been”? Please. This is a denial of what actually happens, what everyone saw on TV for themselves.
You’re being very unfair, David. Why, weren’t there some poor innocent holidaymakers rounded up by the Americans in Afghanistan who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Ah, you’re right, Roland. I also forgot about that poor kid who didn’t mean to throw that fire extinguisher, and those “students” sitting on top of that vandalized police van were there forced up there by police tactics.
Kettle ’em, then boil the kettle…
Why are we discussing this? Shouldn’t we be out and about smashing something?
See you all outside Broadcasting House in half an hour.
Now where’s my baseball bat?
Uh oh – was that incitement?
Of course, watching closely how the police deal with things will give her good ideas for the next riot that she organises. If your “enemy” is kind enough to show you their tactics you can devise plans to circumvent them. It’s a dangerous game the police are playing.
Which constiuency does she represent? I don’t seem to remember her name on any ballot paper.
From the revelations in a later thread, she seems to be on the council of the raving monster hypocrite party.
Few members… lots of undue malign influence.
A bit like the BBC.
I hope that the police have air fresheners in their control room, she is famous for her halitosis. Perhaps they could use her to keep leftist thugs at bay.
Ms CHAKRABARTI’s already been running the London School of Economics (as a LSE Council member) for the benefit of Libya’s dictatorial Gaddafi family. [See today’s ‘Times’, print edition (paywall) for extensive coverage.]
Here’s an extract (a longer version on ‘Open Thread’ by me at 15:50 today):
“Shami Chakrabarti, the director of ‘Liberty’ and a member of the ruling council ,[of the LSE] said:
‘The director has been completely straight about his embarrassment. The council has been completely united in its regret. As a human rights campaigner I can only share bucketfuls of both.’
“Ms Chakrabarti was on the council when it accepted £1.5 million from a foundation headed by Mr Gaddafi in 2009. He has been awarded a PhD by the university although his thesis is now being investigated over alleged plagiarism and ghostwriting.”