Met Police "Institutionally Blairite"
New Labour's favourite copper, Sir Ian Blair, is useless. When not covering up for trigger happy extra-judicial executions of tube travellers, he spends his time enforcing politically correct policing. Detested by many of the ordinary boys in blue his career has been pulled upwards by the immense amount of suction power which he directs to his New Labour masters. Meanwhile in many parts of London people don't bother reporting muggings or burglaries. Guido knows many Londoners who have been the victims of domestic burglary over the years, not one of whom has seen the police catch their burglar. Zero success. Yet, the crime figures paint a vista of increased The commissioner's plan to harrass London's party people is the obvious way to improve the crime figures, by creating and solving crimes on the spot. Operation Middle Market aims to entrap middle class cocaine users with police officers posing as coke dealers. That's the spin he is putting out today. So there you are, sitting half pissed upstairs in the Groucho, a young man with short hair wanders over to you, "hello, hello, fancy some sniff?" Yes you reply, hoping it will jolt you out your alcoholic daze. You slip him £50. What crime have you committed? The copper has no cocaine, you have not bought any, the cop would be guilty of intent to supply if he had any cocaine. So what is the commissioner up to? It's completely imaginary spin to get his gaffe about the Soham murders off the news pages. No one is being arrested in "middle class sting operations" because it would not work in court.
The commissioner knows that the broadsheets will lap up the story and it will move the news agenda on. A cynical Blairite media strategy. Beats catching burglars, eh?
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Nothing serves to remind me more of why the Tories are scum than your whining on behalf of your upper class coke head mates and the way you all go doolally when anyone reminds you that we live in a racist society.
That and your desperation to make the story about any politician who is outed about "hypocrisy".
It doesn't matter how pretty the (ex-) coke head who leads your party is. You are all still Tory scum.
I love Anonymous - he's so bitter. When lefties start acting like that it's the political equivalent of the first daffodils - a sign that the weather is turning. Tough shit, Anon. The left's had its time and what have you got to show for it? Tony Blair, Iraq and greater social inequality than when Thatcher was Queen. Now the Tories are on the way back and the rest of your life is going to be spent in ideological misery. No wonder you're bitter! Why not try some middle class drugs to dull the pain? Not sure coke would help - I'd advise rohypnol - that way you don't notice you're being fucked.
It's in the multi-cultural Daily Mail!!!
'Now the Tories are on the way back'in a well-hung parliament no doubt!
Isn't this the second time he has announced this policy, first time was last February?
Number of arrests of middle-class coke sniffers by undercover police coke dealers so far: 0
It's so obvious what's happening. Blair is terrified about being crucified over the tube shooting. He knows that the political left is after him for that - so he's going into politically correct overdrive to convince stupid lefties he's one of them. Sadly for him, he's an incompetent wanker - hence his grotesque boob over Soham. He's a creepy careerist loathed by real cops and the sooner he gets the boot the happier Londoners will be.
Who is going to be the competent wanker Get Wilcox?
Anonymous would have felt much better had he not held back in his first comment and said what he really meant...
Too true Guido and his comments about Soham and race were disgraceful and nonsensical. Sir Ian seems more suited to a job as a sociology lecturer in a minor university than Britain's most senior police officer. What a useless tosser.
Tories on the way back? Have you read the latest opinion polls. Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Hmmmm, is it just me or does this operation sound just a little bit too much like entrapment?
Anonymous, you hate us tories. However, something tells me that you hate your own a lot more. Knacker thought you'd be pacified if he spoke your language, but he's an idiot if he thinks these two cheap pieces of spin are going to do it.
That was a pretty crrappy cheap-shot remark regarding the tube shooting, Have you forgotten the high state of terror that was created by the 7/7 atrocities.
Try to put yourself in the position of those policemen charge with acting or not acting on the information they held.
You wouldn't have had the guts to make the decision they had to. If he had been a bomber and exploded you would have criticised them for not plugging him.
The policemen are human and must be going through all sorts of agonies because of what they did was later to be found inappropriate action. Kick them wile the're down why dontcha!
Anonymous gives anonymity a bad name.
If you think Blair of the Yard is scary, take a look at Obergruppenführer Brunstrom of the North Wales force, and wonder what keeps him in his job if it isn't political complaisance:
Tories
Gays
Smokers
Child abuve victims
Nocturnal mammals
Sorry, that should have read 'abuse'. It's hard to spot typos in the alphabet soup of HTML, dontcha know.
We will know the Tories are back when courtiers like I.Blair and J.Scarlett start to resign or retire early.
SERO.
As I understand it, it has now been established that the earlier reports that the Brazilian who was shot dead was behaving like a terrorist, have all been discounted. It is now clear that he was an ordinary Joe going about his business. That he was shot dead therefore, is very worrying. More disturbing was the misinformation that was spread amongst the media and thereby reported, which suggested that the Police had taken out a terrorist who was almost certainly about to commit an atrocity on the Tube. This information was nearly all false. The Police Commissioner, who was in a position to find out (in fact demand) what the truth of the matter was, repeated/disseminated some of the misinformation before he had checked its accuracy.
The latest pronouncements concerning "media bias" show that the Commissioner has a propensity to "open mouth before engaging brain". It is becoming increasingly clear he is not well suited to his job and I cannot put out of my head the notion that he has got where he is because he is a thing of "New Labour". Bring back Sir John Stevens (or someone like him).
As regards the unrelated matter of recent opinion polls, they appear to be moderately favourable to the Conservatives, not a lot, but still in the right direction. From little acorns…
From little acorns grow great oaks-in a hundred years time.Of course global warming will kill the tree off long before that.
The ordinary joe Brazilian was an illegal immigrant - had he left this country when his visa expired then he might still be alive today.
Remind me, Sebbo. Which law says it's alright to shoot and kill illegal immigrants (sorry, immigratiion law experts, I meant "overstayers".) He was an ordinary Joe, and shot dead without actually having done anything to deserve it.
"We will know the Tories are back when courtiers like I.Blair and J.Scarlett start to resign or retire early. "
Unfortunately the Tories will only be allowed back when it looks as though courtiers like that will not have to resign.
The only scum in this story, you anonymous coward, is Ian Blair who as Met Police Commissioner is a total and utter failure at everything except for turning the Met into the PC Thought Police.Everything that Guido says is not only morally right but also factually correct, only he has not mentioned the jump in the figures for crimes that affect the entire community on Blair's watch. I am a local Councillor in a fairly deprived London Borough & I can tell you from experience that the Police will no longer easily accept crime reports, so that Blair can fiddle his figures, and yet even with that abuse occurring crime is still rocketing up and ordinary people have completely lost all faith in a police service that no longer serves us, no longer turns up, no longer answers the phjone and no longer accepts crime reports but is deeply dedicated to serving political correctness. IAN BLAIR MUST GO!
A reply to those who have sympathy with the murderers of the innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes.
I wonder how you would feel if the Met Police followed a member of your family onto the tube, didn't give their victim any warning whatsoever, didn't request for them to stop, then stormed onto a carriage, a bunch of them holding a member of your family down, then shot them several times in the head?
I wonder how you would then feel following the assertion that the member of your family was most likely a terrorist who ran away from police when challenged, and was wearing clothing that they were not wearing by the head of the Met Police it emerged that there was evidence to the contrary, and then, CCTV evidence confirming what authorities had said were fabrications were broadcast to the entire nation?
What the Met Police did on that day was a crime just as much as the criminal shooting of policewoman Sharon Beshnivsky. Yet the Met Police actually paid for a family holiday for one of the murderers to go and recouperate!
I wonder how you would feel if the police paid for a family holiday for a potential murderer of a member of your family?
Ian Blair should have gone long ago. He attempted to lie to cover up for the murder of an innocent civilian, that is just wrong, and should be wrong to any law abiding citizen.
I do feel sorry for the frontline officers who killed Jean-Charles. They were under orders. Their information was wrong. The bunglers who put them in that position will, I predict, get off scot-free. So, I predict, will Sir Ian Blair, Charles Clarke and Tony Blair - the three men responsible for the illegal "shoot to kill" orders. The front-line officers have no defence to a charge of murder. If police acting in such circumstances were to have a defence, Parliament would have had to enact it. It wasn't even asked. So, in good faith, the officers have been led into this position by their political masters. I cannot believe that the present delaying tactics by the Crown Prosecution Service - no doubt under political orders - will work. Surely someone will suggest a private prosecution to the family? They will have no trouble raising the money. I only hope that the two Blairs and Clarke will be in the dock alongside the actual shooters.
You people talk like 52 innocent people weren't murdered fifteen days before that guy was killed. You might want to have the policemen who killed him dragged out and ripped to pieces, but I remember what the atmosphere was like at the time. They shouldn't have done it, they messed up. Did they murder him? Of course they didn't. It was a terrible mistake and Sir Ian is a fool for having said anything more than "this is now in the hands of the IPCC" but I don't like the tone of people who talk as if those officers should be on trial for murder.
henry, durham: of course it wasn't murder, but it wasn't just a 'mistake' either: it was culpable gross negligence and - if the word means anything - manslaughter, by whoever ordered the shooting or carried it out without orders. It seems the police's only 'lead' was the fact that this young man came out of the front door of the house where it 'was thought' terrorists were residing. But everyone in London knows that houses and flats in most areas are not only multi-occupancy, but often occupied on a temporary, overnight basis by anyone and everyone. (Most London Councils now allow sub-letting, and do not monitor it because they cannot.) Menezes' overstaying his permit is irrelevant; he'd probably have been killed even if he'd been a British national, for coming out of the wrong doorway at the wrong time. (A sobering thought for the rest of us.)
If there was an honest explanation, wouldn't we have heard it by now, rather than the bilge they fed us about his wearing bulky clothing, trying to jump the barrier, resisting arrest etc?
And who authorised shoot-to-kill in the first place??? A policy of instant execution for suspects (in a country that does not even have the death penalty) enacted without any parliamentary scrutiny or public knowledge? That and the cover-up, is what should get both Blairs sacked.
All this talk means zip to de Menezes family.
They are simple people who scrape a living in what counts for a one horse town, in the semi arid interior of Minas Gerais. Before this tragedy they didn't know much about the world beyond Gonzaga's municipal boundaries, let alone the War On Terror.
They've sure had a rapid and brutal education.
The town has been traumatised by Jean Charles' death, and that's saying something in a country where there were over 30,000 gun deaths last year.
Click here to see how the people of Gonzaga view what is no more than another collateral damage statistic to an indifferent world.
The banner translates, "Jean's dream was interrupted by British Brutality."
Is there not a contradiction in attacking "Politically Correct Policing" and "extra judicial execution" on the tube?
If you get rid of the safeguards and the IPCC like the right want to then this type of thing will happen a lot more often.
Then again Cameron abandonned consistency from day one so its not suprising his follows have too.
You don't care about JCM. This is just another chance to bleat on about Blair being a Bliar and having to resign, rant, rant, rant, rant....Change the record.
The DM family would be better off questioning the motives of all those helpful people they met when they came to this country. There are many cases where the police have shot the wrong person. Unfortunately for those poor bastards, there wasn't an anti war angle to attract the beeb and blogsphere calling for the heads of those in authority.
Wmbyrd, ink slinger; you lost your war. Blair got a second term, Iraq isn't Vietnam and you'd better get used to David Cameron's face because you'll be seeing it a lot more in future.
replace second term with third term...although i think most people would argue that 2001 was a non event
I tell you what henry, durham, here's a challenge for you, take a look at the following link, if you can honestly say that it would be difficult to tell the difference between these 2 men, then I would drop my charge that this was in fact a murder:
http://logicvoice.blogspot.com/2006/01/police-cover-up-on-de-menezes-murder.html
You're not making any sense. Either there was no reason for the police to have shot him, in which case it can only have been a mistake, or there was a reason in which case they were justified in doing so. Make up your mind.
Why would a reason justify the killing.Are we living in a police state?
To get back to Blair (the copper, not the PM) and his attack on the middle-classes for a minute...
Now I'm not a coke user, and never have been, but surely there's an obvious flaw in his cunning plan. How many regular middle-class drug users buy their stock from a stranger on the street. Those with whom I have come into contact tend to have long and loyal relationships with trusted dealers!
Calm down, Henry, love.
No anti-war angle in our post. Many good things have resulted from the war.
We are simply pointing out that the de Menezes family are nonplussed by the shooting and the media circus that has accompanied it, and that they couldn't care less about the war on terror, mere survival in the drought-stricken wastes of the Sertão being somewhat higher on their list of priorities.
Perhaps if Jean Charles had been a girl....
Ye know tae much, Hannibal!
No, not me Inky, it's common sense isn't it? And more evidence that Officer Blair's alleged campaign is a smokescreen to divert attention from his Stockwell death squads.
HAHAHAHA Anonymous you are a twat. Do you really think the polls are right? Do you really think 40% of people will come out and vote for your shitty party in 2010? The Tories are back and when we win the next election you'll see what a real government looks like. Hopefully it'll put you in prison where you belong...
Someone here suggested that Blair cited Soham as cover against allegations of racism regarding the BNP/Nick Griffin trial.
That really would be wheels within wheels.
Ha ha! This is great, typical Brits cowering in misplaced deference to the wonderful boys-in-blue, they do a great job mind, confusing table legs with guns and shooting unarmed people dead. Of course, he was a foreigner mind you so that seems to rationalise it for some.
Sure you would be dancing to a different tune if a cop had been shot in the head eight times by a jabbering ay-rab islamofascist raghead. Now someone would give a shit about life.
Guido
I was unaware that you had joined the Conservative Party, prior to anonymous's post. Welcome onboard.
EU Serf,
I'm a real liberal and have not joined the Tories, I did send the LibDems £6 to join them two weeks ago. Alas, still no reply as yet...
The Tories are back and when we win the next election you'll see what a real government looks like. Hopefully it'll put you in prison where you belong...
Will they put me in prison before they destroy my job and take away my home, or after?
Does anyone know anyone who has been burgled and seen the tealeaf caught? I've been burgled twice and mugged just the once, and no arrests made.
Oh and I've had my car stolen once, now get this: it had a Tracker device in it, and the coppers managed to find it, full of stolen goods waiting to be sold on, within about 8 hours. Great. Has anyone been caught? No of course not. In fact, the stolen goods were still there when I picked up the car from a (private) car yard a few days later. The yard owner said "the police aren't interested in this stuff, so take what you want and I'll share out the rest with my mates here".
And the stolen goods? Amongst it was a wallet, containing good name, photo and address ID for the owner - so not exactly hard to return, eh?
But don't worry, plod is doing something about cocaine dealing! NOT!!
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