Remembrance Day parades scrapped due to brutal Tory police cuts
Julia Wortley, Essex’s Chief Constable.
Disgraceful.
The scrapping and scaling down of dozens of Remembrance Day events after brutal Tory cuts left too few police officers to cover them has been branded an insult to our war heroes.
Julia Wortley, Assistant Chief Con of Essex Police, told local British Legions her force cannot handle the 80 events in the county. And parades were axed in London, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire.
Labour MP Michael Dugher slammed Government cutbacks, saying: “This is an insult to our veterans and to the brave men and women of our Armed Forces.”
Home Secretary Theresa May has slashed the police budget by around 26% over the past five years, axing 35,000 officers.
And thousands more posts could go after cuts in next month’s Autumn Statement.
Source: Remembrance Day parades scrapped due to brutal Tory police cuts
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what a shameful and disgusting govt this is.
Hold them anyway – the police have no right to get involved, as they are customarily held processions, which are exempt from any requirement for the police to even be notified of them. And there is a right-of-way for pedestrians on any public highway.
Well they better not think the armed forces will bail them out when the riots eventually start…..it could of course just be just another little saviing in the bank and at the same time save their faces should there be, god forgive,a lethal attack directly because they have raided the police manpower larder one to many times. Well at least the good news is the bankers numbers and salaries are swelling.