Brazen Effrontery!

12th August 2024

I nearly sprayed coffee all over my laptop when I saw this morning’s headlines on the DT’s frontpage. Please remove any crockery, mugs, glasses and other breakable, throwable things from your vicinity before reading the headline for the piece the new Home Sec, Ms Yvette Cooper has penned for our education:

“We need to restore respect for our police  - Criminals have paid the price for their rioting, but there is still much work to be done in rebuilding our communities” (paywalled link)

Where to start! What about the criminals such as burglars, thieves, muggers, knife and machete wielders? Are they not criminals? Moreover, why would we show respect to an entity which is practically invisible unless they bust open doors, clad like an invading army, to arrest people for posting something on social media? 

Funny how burglars and others of that ilk never seem to get that treatment. Providing the police with evidence from private CCTV installations, identifying criminals stealing from sheds or porches never leads to any prosecution … yeah, we definitely need to ‘respect’ that!

We also must definitely respect the police for their huge efforts supporting the Alphabet-group minority, wearing high heels with uniforms, driving around in rainbow-coloured panda cars and generally demonstrating their woke cuddliness by not implementing the full force of the law when ‘activists’ glue themselves to streets, stopping traffic and even emergency vehicles. Yeah: respect!

There's more. Having praised the police for their ‘swift action’ during those riots, leading to the ‘swift’ arrest and prosecution of ‘thugs’, she has the effrontery to write:

“As home secretary, I am not prepared to tolerate the brazen abuse and contempt which a minority have felt able to show towards our men and women in uniform, or the disrespect for law and order that has been allowed to grow in recent years. As well as punishing those responsible for the last fortnight’s violent disorder, we must take action to restore respect for the police, and respect for the law.” (paywalled link)

Apparently, we must now forget the ‘disrespect’ which certain, Labour-adjacent groups have shown the police in recent years, especially during the BLM riots. As far as I recall, it weren’t ‘far extreme really hard ultra right’ groups who shouted ‘police are pigs’.

Furthermore, wasn’t there the leader and deputy leader of the ‘loyal opposition’, photographed having taken the knee to show solidarity with those who actually attacked the police? My how times have changed! Here’s how Ms C is  going to ‘restore respect’:

“That is why we plan to put thousands more neighbourhood police officers and PCSOs back onto our streets – reversing the collapse in community policing in the last fourteen years and rebuilding the relationship between local communities and their police forces.” (paywalled link)

Oh - so now this isn’t a sign of a police state any longer because it’s Labour, not the Tories, who do it? Will she now implement the stop-and-search policy to prevent knife crime? Or is this still ‘racially aggravating’? 

Perhaps she can get the ‘community leaders’ to patrol their streets and stop their ‘community members’ from attacking each other with machetes … just swear them in as new ‘neighbourhood officers! Then there this:

“The mission to deliver safer streets that the prime minister has set for our newly elected Labour government has at its heart the restoration of confidence in policing and the criminal justice system. From anti-social behaviour through to serious violence, too often people feel as though crime has no consequences, as charge rates have been allowed to fall and court delays grown.” (paywalled link)

Note well that she’s not mentioning with one word crimes against property, from shoplifting to burglary and robbery. Note well that she doesn’t mention with one word all the police officers sat in offices ‘scouring’ (their words) the internet for thought crime. This is the sign of a socialist police state which those of us who’ve studied the history of the Soviet Union recall:

“The difference in treatment between the regular criminals and the political prisoners had roots in Soviet ideology about re-education and class conflict. The view of the Soviet ideologue was that common criminals could be reformed and converted into productive members of Soviet society with relative ease. Political prisoners, on the other hand, class “aliens” as they were, required far harsher treatment to attain sufficient reeducation.” (link)

Recall the principles which Sir Robert Peel set out for the police force he created two hundred years ago - check them out here. Not only has our modern police force diverged to an extent from these principles which is shameful, Ms Cooper is now setting out what can only be described as a ‘socialist’ police force where ‘public consent’ is being created and enforced by elevating thought crime and the prosecution of thought crimes to being the main objective.

“Policing the streets” thus means preventing “thugs” from voicing their opinions because anything they say is ‘hate’ and thus criminal. Let the people cower in their homes while actual criminals can fight their gang wars on our ‘safe’ streets. Oh - saying that is now probably also a ‘hate crime’.

Perhaps what the Home Sec should do next is issuing a nice button, declaring that the wearer ‘respects the police’ and is permitted to go out into the streets now safe from ‘hate crime criminals’.

Perhaps those who apply to receive such a button might even get preferential treatment should some real criminals - you know, those we used to imprison for burglary and all that jazz - enter their homes ‘without consent’.

Anyway, that’s all I have for today. I am looking forward to the anniversary of 7th October when those demonstrators with their flags representing a terrorist organisation will roam the streets. We’ll see then who’ll show respect to whom … Have a good day.