Did you see that the BBC are gleefully providing the Police Trade Union with a platform to attack Theresa May? It seems she is “destroying” a police service admired throughout the world. I wonder if this is the same police service (sic) that the BBC never misses the opportunity to put the boot into? From the shooting of Jean Paul de Menezes, through the summer riots, to that institutionalised racism imagined by Macpherson – the BBC has been a constant force in undermining the police force we once had, turning into a pale shadow of what it once was. However given the chance to provide the Coalition with more bad publicity, the BBC temporarily suspends it own onslaught on British policing and plays along with the Police Federation.
THE THIN BLUE SHADOW…
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Sony Award winning Vicky Derbyshire reminds us on BBC Radio 5 that Health Minister Andrew Landsley got a rough ride at the RCN and then suggests that later today Home Secretary Teresa May MAY WELL get the same treatment from the Police.
Good old BBC – bringing you, and indeed, MAKING the left-wing news.
Noted the BBC microphone placed well and in advance for some obvious soundbite required for the 1pm news…where Lansley was mockingly asked about whether northern MPs would now be getting less than southern ones.
Fair point-crap Government-but really resent the BBC forever sniffing for troubles and rent a quote, when they are “supposed to be impartial”.
Noted too their all pervasive ooze of conspiracy at recent education conferences…the BBC choose to place their mics nearer some “trusties” than others who may well not give the last Labour Government the clean bill of health demanded by the BBC.
The BBC…police, RCN, NAHT etc…all did very well out of Blair and Brown and -unsurprisingly- will say anything to bring them back from reality.
Let`s hear no more about these placemen being “independent” or “apolitical…the “personal is political say the feminists”.
So too is the professional after years under the Lords of Misrule from 1997-2010.
Note that even the economics crisis enables Ed Balls BROTHER to speak on the BBC…cosy world isn`t it?
Every home secretary since the beginning of time has been heckled at the Police Federation conference. It’s an annual thing. They’re probably less intimidating than an audience of Women’s Institute members, though.
Oddly, the most of UK’s media outlets seem to be predicting the same thing. It’s not as if they’re trying to force the news agenda or anything, is it?
It would be quite funny if tomorrow’s breakfast headlines are, “Ed Balls will accidentally shit himself during this morning’s press conference in which he will attack the Government on…”
Jean Charles de Menezes, but let it pass…
In the BBC Narrative, the UK police “service”, like the NHS, (and, indeed, like the BBC itself) is the envy of the world and the police and the NHS are being destroyed by the coalition: if only.
The only “threats” to the police are that in future their pension contributions might go some way to reflect the pension benefits, that fewer police do desk jobs which can be left to cheaper “civilian” labour and elected police commissioners might demand a return to the police enforcing the law rather than being social workers in uniform. I can see why the police trade union would be terrified of this: the prospect of earning a living has always been the bugbear of trade unionists.
However, I wouldn’t equate policemen with the parasites who report on them at the BBC. The rank and file police should recognise that the BBC is not their friend. The Federation’s position is clear and (however much I disagree with it) reasonable in terms of wanting to get the most for the least for their members. The BBC is just there to make trouble and foment resentment eg bigging up the manifest failure of last week’s public “service” strike. The BBC takes sides, of course, but their side is not that of the police or the law-abiding majority who look to the police for its protection.
Theresa May, as useless as she is, is not destroying the Police. Political Correctness as practised by the Common Purpose management and Gramscian infiltrators has already pretty well destroyed any operational efficiency in the “service”.
Perhaps those “Pilgrims” in the Police Federation would like to tell us if it was the Home Secretary who made them turn a blind eye to the rapes and sexual exploitation of young girls by Islamic gangs over the past twenty years? Is it Mrs.May who prevented them going to the aid of shooting or drowning victims because of Health and Safety?
I have to say that since I retired as a copper that the Police Federation has become politicised since we had a change of government. The evidence for this was last week’s demonstration by off duty officers that conveniently coincided with the public service unions day of action against the evil CUTS!
I have to say that David Blunkett did much more to destroy policing in this country AND he changed the terms of Police Pensions. Can’t remember the BBC showing much sympathy for poor old Plod then.
She promised to eliminate targets, yet they still remain.
Her target is next year apparently …
I know it’s been mentioned but (a) all the spokesmen/women are union /quango/ bureaucrats and wouldn’t know a criminal if it bit them on the bum and (b) not so keen on police when they protect citizens by accidentally killing an armed and dangerous drug dealing scumbag.
Most of you like me must have looked at your new Council Tax Bill breakdown in April each year between 1997 and 2009 and noticed the never ending, way above inflation increases. So much inflation was added that Council Tax doubled during the same period.
Tied to this was your Policing Tax. I have not seen breakdowns of this part of the Bill but likely this doubled as well.
During the same period did you experience enhanced Council Services or Policing? No. Didn’t think so. Do you also remember the elderly unable to afford their Council tax? Do remember some of them went to jail to protest the level of tax?
So something is seriously wrong. What was this money used for? Super paid police executives like all the other branches of Govt. They face the same hard choices every one of us face.
We as a family have had it really tough during the recession. Why do civil servants think that they are somehow immune from austerity and redundancies. Start looking at what your executives are paid, compare with private sector, do some sums and you’ll find that every single civil servant lives in fantasy land. I have news for you; the time has come to count the pennies and you may not like the outcome.
There are plenty of ways to save on Police budgets but the politicised management and unionised civil servants are cutting front line services where they hope any deficiency will be noticed by the public.
When I joined the police in 1975, the ratio of supervising officers to police constables was around 1 to every 7. Now that ratio is around 1 to every 3. The Police “Service” has too many senior officers and supervisors. The problem is the promotion system. If an officer is successful at a promotion board, he/she must be promoted within twelve months, irrespective of whether there is a vacancy. I remember when Kenneth Clarke as Home Secretary tried to abolish the rank of Chief Inspector as surplus to requirements.That month SIXTYSIX Chief Inspectors were promoted to the rank of Superintendent in my Force.
Unfortunately, too many are now joining the police purely to gain promotion as soon as possible after their two year probationary period. Self interest has now superceded public duty and being a copper is no longer a vocation but a “career”. I doubt if things will ever improve, no matter how much taxpayers’ money is thrown a it.
In a parallel universe we would have a democratic party to vote for seeking a mandate to hire pre-PC Police Officers to teach their post Macpherson colleagues how the job was done.
The first thing I’d do personally is put prosecuting decisions back in the hands of the Police. Prosecution lawyers should be working for the police, not vice versa. The police (or at least in pre-PC days they did) think the same as Joe Public in putting scrotes away.
Tragically, I think we’re too far gone to see that ‘parallel universe’ become a reality. Things can only get worse. We’ll either see Britain utterly destroyed by Political Correctness, or we’ll turn to Nazi scum like the BNP to do what Hitler couldn’t to Britain instead.
Agreed apart from the prosecution bit. Coppers are supposed to investigate crime and arrest perps. They do not decide who should be prosecuted and who should not. That is a function that requires a specialised workforce. The CPS may be a bunch of useless wankers but, in theory, they are doing the right job.
Simple really.
There are good coppers like Desai, Paddick and ,of course, Sir Ian Blair…progressive sociologists who “don`t do crime”…and there are bad ones…Robert Mark, James Anderton and Kenneth Oxford-who actually had a morality and took crime on where they found it…and usually on the Lefts barricades or muliticulti workshops( who said manufacturing is in decline?).
Simple really-if you suck up to the BBC you`re a Giles Fraser…if you stick to your convictions then you`re an Ian Paisley.
Yet history notes who REALLY changed things…and Thatcher, Paisley and the good Heads of the Forces of old will live on long after the likes of Hugh Orde
Our police force is only ‘admired throughout the world’ because the world still has this image of bobbies on the beat politely helping passers by and patting rosy-cheeked children on the head, smilingly putting shiny English apples in their little hands made grubby from climbing trees and playing hopscotch, whilst in the background the vicar wobbles by on his bicycle (with basket, of course) and Mr. Pickles the local bank manager makes his way to work with newspaper neatly tucked underneath his arm, bowler hat firmly in place on his brilliantined head and brolly swinging in time to his energetic walk.
Then we have the foreign victim of the riots who was beaten and robbed, then robbed again by passers-by who were pretending to help him whilst Plod sat behind his desk planning the next phase of his community cohesion initiative. The sad thing was, this young foreign student was shocked it could all happen in Britain. ‘The world’ will get the true picture eventually (maybe).
The bit where the guy pointed out that May didn’t raise her hand was truly priceless, though. Talk about a face like a smacked arse.
Yes, it was like a “before” and “after” picture for root canal dental work !
Like with classic leftie scare mongering about our beloved NHS recently, i’m just surprised we haven’t yet heard, “Parliament has just 48 hours to save the Police!”
Which will be put on a trolly and left in the corridor.
I made a rather snide twitter comment about how if the hecklers were less in conferences shouting and more out there solving crime by being PCs, not being PC about crimes or preventing abuses of justice by being utterly pants at their jobs, they may have more public sympathy.
It got a… response.
Actually, in the subsequent exchanges, we met in the middle, whereby I accepted most guys at the coal face were nothing like their union reps, or wanted to be equated with them (I avoided the ‘then why are they voted in?’ route), and the media mis-represented everything just to stir up trouble by only getting on their ideological fellow-travellers.
A result, I felt.