The two faces of Theresa May
Prove who you are: Theresa May and David Cameron check the credentials of two police officers, to ensure they aren’t illegal immigrants. No, not really – but don’t be surprised if police checkpoints start appearing everywhere with people in peaked caps demanding your papers, just like in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 40s!
(According to the caption that accompanied this picture last year)
The Home Secretary has been on stage at the Conservative Party conference, trying to convince us all that she is no longer using the police to pursue racist policies.
Speaking after a young man of Afro-Caribbean descent told delegates he had been stopped no less than 20 times, despite never having committed a crime, Theresa May asked the conference to imagine what it is like to be stopped by police and searched “only because you are young, male and black”.
She said 27 per cent of stop-searches are carried out without the reasonable grounds for suspicion required by law, which is not only wrong, she says, but “hugely damaging” to confidence in the police.
She reckons she has “reformed” (they love that word) stop and search.
Is this the same woman who – only one year ago – sponsored an advertising campaign on the side of vans patrolling London, with the message “In the UK illegally? GO HOME OR FACE ARREST.”
Is this the same woman whose Home Office tweeted messages about the number of illegal immigrants it wished to claim had been detected or turned themselves in – and even transmitted photographs of suspects in a move that was certain to undermine any claims that it was not trying to incite racial hatred?
Is this the same woman whose immigration officers carried out stop-checks at railway stations, demanding to see identification proving that people were in the UK legally, apparently because they looked foreign?
Theresa May can say what she likes.
We should judge her by her record.
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“We should judge her by her record.”
Would you mean that scratched ’78rpm disc that keeps clicking on the word ‘bigotry’?
Talk about the ultimate empty rhetorical question – to the Mob HQ gathering of the paid-up sociopaths without an ounce of empathy for anyone, let alone a young, black person.
Followed, of course, by the equally empty rhetorical flourish of “change”.
She must consider herself a future Fuhrer, ooops, Tory leader.
Just two faces?
Fortunately the expression on her face absolutely gives her away, in her case we can judge a book by its cover and the judgement ai’nt good.