Political Police

There have been a few instances over the past few week that have made me question the current state of Policing in the UK, especially with regard to Bias, either political or otherwise.

Being a working class lad, I've seen the move away from community Policing where the officers on the beat were a complete cross-section of the community and therefore "one of us", to the "professional Police" we have now with degree-waving graduates with no common sense, no skills, and no life experience put into situations that no training course could replicate.

Now it's all about absolutes: black and white. Now Policing is much more about enforcement rather than common sense and human rights. 

Now we have a Police force with little experience of working class life. Instead the grim estates are something alien to modern coppers and in effect they have moved from being one of those people on the estates Policing by consent, to a bunch of thugs with a war-like mentality against the citizens of the lower classes. Phrases like "War on crime", "War on drugs", only fuel the "Us and them" mentality that pervades the modern Police force.

Aided and abetted by the absolutes of fixed penalty notices introduced by Tony Blair, the Police are no longer interested in keeping the Peace. They regularly break the peace themselves, assaulting citizens to enforce wrongful arrests. 

The mentality of training that says every citizen, from a young kid to a granny should have their hands forcefully jammed up their backs, or be thrown to the ground, when making an arrest is wrong-headed. That's not Policing by consent: that is assault, that is bullying, that is just plain wrong.

Then we have bias in the Police: letting one section of the population off even when causing criminal damage and assault, to Baton-charging another section of the population when being peaceful.

Don't think we don't see the bias. Don't think we don't see the political interference. Not from politicians, but the political animals at the top of the Police Force. From inspector upwards, office politics and then political influences from various organisations sways everyone from inspector upwards.

How else do you explain one protest against lockdown being baton-charged. Yet a black lives matter protest mere days later being left alone by the Police? The same goes for the disruption and criminal damage done by extinction rebellion: untouched by the Police. But who is calling the shots? Who is making the decision to wade into one protest and back off from another? Are the pet political interests of Cressida Dick getting preferential treatment? Who is calling the shots and exactly how and why are those decisions being made?

Politically sensitive agendas are given preferential treatment, I assume to avoid political fallout.

This is not what the Police force should be doing. Their remit is to enforce the law without fear or favour. There should be no bias, no preferential treatment of political causes over others. There should be no abuse of people based on class or colour.

The Police needs shaking up. Those currently at the head of the Police need to be sacked and a new, unbiased leadership brought in.

I would utter the words "Common Purpose" again, but I've already blogged on that organisation and it's influence among the Police and other governmental organisations.

COVID-19: There Will be a Reckoning.

 The covid virus has highlighted the worst of humanity. Not just the incompetence of Government, but also the cracks in the NHS, local Government, Councils and especially the Police Force.

First off, there will be a reckoning over the amount of cash spunked out on the various government schemes meant to help. 

There will be increased taxes down the line. Which is fine for those that benefitted during the lockdown, but what about those of us that kept working? Why should we pay for someone else's benefit?

The money given out to the arts is a scandal. £250,000 was given to one person alone. With nothing to show for it, I hope the money is clawed back. As long as matey hasn't used the dosh to flee to Antigua or some other sunny bolt-hole of the newly (at taxpayer's expense) enriched.

Second, the big reckoning will be with the Police. At no other time has the Police been so hated not just by criminals, but the general public. Not just the working classes on estates that get harassed regularly, but now the middle classes are beginning to see the Police not as a force for good, but instead more of an army of occupation.

The concept of the Police doing so by the consent of the public has been more than thoroughly flushed down the toilet and instead we have Policing by bullying and coercion. We have corrupt Police enforcing guidelines as laws, making arbitrary decisions and basically making stuff up. At the same time those same Police are doing the self-same things that they are fining people for.

I think after this the Police will get a big revamp. It has to, or the public will not comply. The Police have lost the consent of the public.

The next reckoning will come at the polls. Boris is fucked. He will not win another term as PM. I just hope Nigel Farage can get some sort of common sense Conservative party into shape by then and beat Labour to the finish line. For all our sakes. If he doesn't, a Starmer-led Labour will be as bad for Britain as Sleepy Joe Biden is proving for America.

The NHS has been shown to be woefully inadequate when it comes to crisis management. Too many managers getting in the way and not enough doers actually doing stuff on the wards. The Dross will have to be swept away. Fuck the unions, the NHS needs hugs reform if it has any hope of staying a public body. The vultures are already circling, waiting for the death-blow and for the NHS to be privatised.

Local government, city and town councils have also come up short. Instead of managing the crisis, we see the more loony-left starting their pet projects. Banning cars, cycle lanes (that no-one can cycle down because of lockdown), enforcement of nonsensical rules... the list goes on.

Covid has shown a great opportunity for the public to claim back their government, their NHS and more. They have seen the cracks in the system.

The elite fear this, already putting forward their ideology in "The Great Rest". Basically a Marxists elite ideology where the plebs own nothing and the elites swim in champagne.

Well, the plebs need to organise and take back control. The next general election will be our time to roar.

COVID-19: Living After Infection

 Yep, the Couf got me four weeks ago. Someone brought it into the office and we all fell down with it (to paraphrase a nursery rhyme from another plague).

Not the worst experience I've had (I had a Campylobacter Infection once, long ago), but still it wasn't a cakewalk either. I'm just glad that even over 50 I could shrug it off within a fortnight. Keeping up with the Vitamin D supplements alongside supplements for the over 50s, I think helped, and have helped shrug off other infections

I took two weeks off work, and went back last Monday. Still quite weak and don't have much stamina, but I'm getting there.

It took me a whole day yesterday to dismantle a triple wardrobe, carry it to the spare room and re-erect it. Thanks how knackered I am at the moment. 

But at least the cough has almost gone, which is quicker than most. 

The downside is Coffee stills tastes rank. So I'm on water or Vimto. Yep the taste buds are a still a bit wonky.

So I'm not a denier. It does exist. But it isn't quite as bad as the News people make out. It's just like a bad flu that does odd things with your innards. The first indication was chest pains: I assume the stent in my heart was aggravating the lining of my artery. Then it did a number on my internal organs, where my pee went a very dark orange. Luckily my kidneys have recovered. 

So all in all, I've beaten the Couf. Maybe I should get a T-Shirt made.

Have to wait another 14 days before I can have a vaccine if I'm offered, but then again if I've had the bloody virus, what's the point of having a vaccine to prevent me getting it? I should have a Couf-ready immune system.