In view of yesterdays outbreak of violence at the Millbank HQ of the Conservative party has anyone considered the coincidence of a Government telling the police that they must cut manpower and then having their HQ trashed by a student demo because there were not enough police on duty to stop it?
What better way to bring it home to those in power, ‘sorry guv, we just did not have enough officers to prevent it, by the way, how are the propsed cuts in the police force progressing minister’?
The commissioner has announced an enquiry and a few officers may twist in the wind for a bit but seeing as the police usually turn out in force when a few pensioners threaten a shuffle in, it seems to strain incredulity to suggest that this was ‘just a bit of a cock up’. I bet Cameron et al are hastily reviewing the plan to cut the fuzz.
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I was relieved when this government was elected. Now I am not so sure. They seem to be determined to destroy the fabric of society as we knew it.
Agree Zen though I must say that society had a fair go at destroying the fabric of Government yesterday.
Not before time, come on the Lollards!
While I can sympathise with the genuine students, I am as usual appalled by the presence of the professional anarchists who were responsible for the violence and damage. They don’t contribute to the debate, just to the problem and the costs.
I am afraid you will find them everywhere where there is an opportunity.
I was amused to hear, regarding the maniac on the roof throwing a fire extinguisher, one Sky news reporter say “Police have tweeted for the man to come down off the roof”. Did they really think the man up there, was tuned into Twitter, while he was attempting to murder someone?
Val, a tactic based on too many episodes of the Bill, I fear. 🙂
More a case of ‘ any port in a storm.’
Many of the students interviewed, had no command of the English language, uneducated cretins, the lot of them.
One placard written by a student read ‘WE ARE YOUR FUTRUE’ Says it all really.
I dyslexic am!
Funny innit Zen?
I see today that ol’ Haigy is completely putting the cart before the horse.
His thrust on benefits reform is ‘to make it pay for life scroungers to take work.’
I would have prefered him to stop making it viable for workshy, idle leeches to live comfortably on the back of everyone elses toil.
Politics its a funny ol’ game.
No, Furry, I have nothing but contempt for those who do nothing, have done nothing for society. Laughable, yes, funny, definitely not.
Gross miscalculation by the police, and most probably a reaction to having been criticised so strongly over their roughhouse tactics at the G20. The police were available, as demonstrated when they called in the Riot Squads eventually.
I think it would take a very stupid Police Commissioner to try the line suggested….
“a very stupid Police Commissioner”
Surely an oxymoron?
If that’s the democracy that we are encouraging Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Venezuela and countless others to embrace good luck.
How nobody was killed or seriously hurt was simply luck more than anything else, I’d like to think that it wouldn’t happen here but it probably could however I am absolutely positive that our cops would certainly detain most of the perpetrators and if they needed help the army wouldn’t be too far away.
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On a different note, not sure if you have seen this Good news
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I’m quite sure it was deliberate by the police. Interestingly, they had sufficient cops to hand to protect the bloody ragheads down the road burning poppies from a good drubbing by the EDL.
Needless to say, no ragheads taken into custody, only the EDL.
Makes one want to vomit.