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Poll shows more than 90 per cent think women should not be alone with police

This is self-explanatory.

I appreciate that the survey sample isn’t large enough for anybody to take it as a true indication of national feeling, because of the way social media platforms’ algorithms penalise left-wing social media sites like this one – and it isn’t weighted in the same way as other polls.

But the result is decisive, nonetheless:

For those of you who may not be aware of the reason I conducted the poll, here‘s the original story.

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Police should never have employed Wayne Couzens, report finds. But they did, along with how many more?

Endangered by the police: This Site published the infographic above in 2021. We have seen no material changes in the police since then.

Does everybody feel better or worse, now we have a report showing that Wayne Couzens – the rapist and murderer of Sarah Everard, should never have been allowed to be a police officer?

The report shows multiple failures to identify Couzens’s danger to women and unsuitability to be a member of the police, saying they were missed by three forces.

Missed? Or ignored?

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Sarah Everard’s family have said she was kidnapped and murdered by Wayne Couzens because he was armed with police powers he should never have had, after an official report revealed new and damning failures by police who missed his prolific sexual offending dating back almost 20 years.

The failures laid out in the report by Lady Elish Angiolini are worse than previously thought, and she concludes Couzens should never have been a police officer. She highlighted a series of chances to spot his danger to women and his unsuitability to be an officer that were missed by repeated bungling in three forces.

He was a Metropolitan police officer and entrusted with a gun as part of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command.

Some of the allegations the inquiry highlights were not reported to police before Couzens went hunting for a woman on London’s streets in March 2021, but in all, eight allegations were passed to officers, with next to nothing done.

This Writer does not for one moment believe that the contents of the Angiolini report will do anything to deter police forces like the Met from employing serial rapists, murderers and/or other offenders; they simply don’t care and never have.

My advice to women is: never be alone with any police officer, under any circumstances. Always have somebody there to witness what they say and do to you. If they stop you alone on the street, go to the nearest house and seek help from there.

Yes – I’m making the police seem as bad as the criminals from whom they are supposed to protect us.

That’s because – from a wealth of evidence over the past years and with apologies to the many who do try to uphold the law – we have to believe that they are.

Source: Police should never have employed Wayne Couzens, report finds | Police | The Guardian


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Why are women who have lost their babies being investigated for a crime?

Police: why are they wrongly accusing women who have lost their babies of committing crimes?

Women say they have been “traumatised” and left feeling “suicidal” after criminal investigations lasting years in which they were suspected of illegally ending a pregnancy.

It seems they are being victimised for losing their babies after the 24-week window for termination.

Abortions after 24 weeks are only allowed if the woman’s life is in danger, if there is a severe fetal abnormality or if the woman is at risk of grave physical and mental injury.

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But of course that does not mean a woman cannot lose her child for natural – and very often tragic – reasons, as the BBC has pointed out:

An unprecedented number of women are being investigated by police on suspicion of illegally ending a pregnancy, the BBC has been told.

Abortion provider MSI says it knows of up to 60 criminal inquiries in England and Wales since 2018, compared with almost zero before.

Some investigations followed natural pregnancy loss, File on 4 found.

Pregnancy loss is investigated only if credible evidence suggests a crime, the National Police Chiefs’ Council says.

Do we believe that comment from the National Police Chiefs’ Council?

We already know that the Metropolitan Police has been found to be institutionally misogynistic. Perhaps the rot has gone further.

This Writer tends to agree with Dr Jonathan Lord of abortion provider MSI, who said: “These women are often vulnerable and in desperate situations.

“They need help, not investigation and punishment.”


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Labour’s compassion for the Gaza bereaved: police manhandling

Angela Rayner: whatever she was saying in her speech, it wasn’t so important that she could get police to manhandle a bereaved Gazan Palestinian out of the room.

Labour’s position on the Gaza genocide is now very ugly indeed.

As Angela Rayner was giving a speech, a bereaved Palestinian interrupted to raise awareness of what is actually happening in Gaza.

Some of you may consider that to be rude, at the very least – but how else are these people going to get their point across? They are being denied a voice everywhere – as subsequent events prove very clearly:

That’s right: the first speaker and those who stood up to speak out in support of him were manhandled out of the event by police officers in order to shut them up.

Is that what the United Kingdom is, now? A police state?

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The appropriate action for Rayner to take would have been to pause her speech, give the bereaved gentlemen the benefit of some sympathy and some time, and listen to what he had to say.

Then she could have taken note of what he said. She could still have stated Labour’s position after he finished, but she could also have promised to bring his concerns about that position to the other party leaders.

She didn’t do any of those things so, judging her by her actions, I’m going to conclude that she doesn’t care about this man’s loss – or the loss suffered by anyone else of Gazan descent in the UK who has lost family members in the genocide.

By extension, she doesn’t care about the genocide itself, and by further extension, we can conclude that nobody else in the Labour Party machine does either.

Taking that to its logical conclusion – as espoused by the late, great Tony Benn who said that our politicians support events abroad that they would like to see happening here in the UK: Rayner and the thugs now posing as leaders of the Labour Party only wish they could visit the same grief on people here as has been dealt out to the people of Gaza.

All right – perhaps that final conclusion is taking it a little too far.

But it is a reasonable position to take, based on Rayner’s immediate reaction to call in the police.

It shows very clearly that the Labour Party under its current leadership has no regard for what is right – morally and/or ethically – and only wants power for the sake of its own leaders’ enrichment.

If you were planning to vote Labour before this, I certainly hope you have changed your mind now.


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Police are running glacial investigations into #MrBates Fujitsu/Post Office scandal

The Post Office: this former bastion of British trustworthiness has been tarnished by a harmful software system that it insisted was beyond question. The scandal created by this falsehood has caused people to die.

Those of you who have been following the excellent ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office should be delighted that the police are investigating possible crimes by those acting on behalf of Post Office Limited and Fujitsu. But these inquiries are proceeding at the speed of a glacier.

According to the BBC,

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 branch owner-operators [sub-postmasters] were wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting, on the basis of faulty information from Horizon software introduced by the Post Office.

Some went to prison. Many were financially ruined. Some have since died.

The affair has been described by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) as “the most widespread miscarriage of justice the CCRC has ever seen and represents the biggest single series of wrongful convictions in British legal history”.

An independent public inquiry led by retired judge Sir Wyn Williams is continuing. Events surrounding the scandal are back in the spotlight because of an ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which has been screened this week.

But there are even more victims, it seems, because:

The Met said it was investigating possible fraud offences from these cases.

It comes as 50 new potential victims of the scandal have contacted lawyers.

The Met Police said the potential offences could have been related to “monies recovered from sub-postmasters as a result of prosecutions or civil actions”.

But here’s the rub: the Met has been investigating potential offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice in relation to presecutions carried out by the Post Office since 2020 – and has interviewed just two people. No arrests have taken place.

So don’t hold your breath waiting for any results.

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And remember: 2024 is the 25th year since the prosecutions of sub-postmasters began – based on an insecure software system that provided data that was either false or was altered by staff at the firm that developed it – the Bracknell-based UK branch of Fujitsu.

Why is it all taking so long to resolve?

Well, perhaps the answer lies in the names of the people involved.

For example:

So the UK’s current prime minister’s family has a financial interest in the well-being of the firm whose softward caused this scandal.

So the firm whose software caused this scandal was being run, at the time, by the husband of a senior Conservative Party member (and subsequent Cabinet minister).

Then there’s Simon Blagden (who is apparently a former chairman of Fujitsu):

The perks aren’t all flowing one way, though. Paula Vennells, the CEO of Post Office Limited at the time of the scandal, was awarded a CBE by Boris Johnson when he was prime minister:

For clarity, it seems the Horizon software system developed by Fujitsu was always known to be faulty and those behind it at the company knew it should never have been handed over to Post Office Limited for distribution to sub-postmasters. But it was.

Sub-postmasters soon discovered that the software was faulty when they realised that it was refusing to balance their accounts – instead producing deficits of thousands of pounds. When they complained to the helpline (as pointed out in the Have I Got News For You clip above), they were told that nobody else had complained. This was a lie.

Worse,

And what happened?

This:

It is understood that staff at both Fujitsu and Post Office Limited knew sub-postmasters were being wrongly accused, but stood by and let it happen. As some committed suicide, that would put blood on their hands, as indicated by the following post, commenting on information from a former sub-postmaster who was (wrongly? – I put this with a question-mark because I don’t know whether proceedings are taking place or have in the past) prosecuted and suffered a nervous breakdown as a result

The TV drama suggests that former sub-postmaster’s union rep (and a prosecuted sub-postmaster himself) Michael Rudkin visited Fujitsu and witnessed staff tampering with the accounts of other sub-postmasters.

Here’s what (it seems) Fujitsu did when an independent investigator inquired about the visit:

The man who played Mr Rudkin on TV has posted on ‘X’ in support of him – but I want to draw your attention to Mark Hirst’s comment:

How many of us are being ripped off by faulty or fraudulent IT systems produced and marketed by unscrupulous corporations?

And here’s the real burn: Fujitsu, now known to have sold rubbish to one of our (formerly) most-trusted institutions – rubbish that has ruined its reputation – is still receiving public-sector contracts from the UK’s Tory government (that has so many members and former members connected to the firm in some way).

Looking at the post immediately below: given the first two facts, is the third any surprise at all?

Consider also this:

And this:

All of the above is happening despite this:

So even when this corporation was known to have bungled a job, it still managed to sue the contractor and come out on top. That in itself should be enough to halt the flow of money from the UK Treasury to this organisation – but it hasn’t.

Conclusion: don’t expect any joy from police investigations or the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal; Fujitsu and the Post Office are too big to take down, and they are too well-connected to government figures. Any corruption – and all the indications are that all three organisations are institutionally corrupt – will be disputed in the courts, where any cases are likely to be delayed continually by the use of a never-ending supply of money from the public purse.

In effect, these organisations will use our own money to harm us.

Oh – on the subject of money: what happened to all the cash that Post Office Limited demanded that sub-postmasters had to pay back? The amounts Horizon said they owed never existed, so if they were forced to pay money to “balance” their accounts, they deserve to have it returned. If it has been sitting in bank accounts, they deserve to have it returned along with any interest it has accrued.

Has that happened? Will it? I’m betting that the answer to both questions is a big, fat “no”.

Last word on this goes to Phil BD, below, who received a curious response when he tried to find out Fujitsu’s current share price:


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Sign the petition for reform of rapist-ridden (?) police

This seems self-explanatory:

The full petition states:

“Cases of abuse of women by police are all too often making headlines. An investigation conducted by Refuge into alleged cases of abuse of women by police-perpetrators, shockingly revealed that, of the total number of cases of officers accused of violence against women and girls (VAWG) between 2022 and 2023, only 24% were suspended while under investigation.

“How can women feel safe coming forward to report abuse when so little is being done to root out abusers from within policing’s own ranks?

“The government must act now to prove that their promise to make violence against women and girls a strategic policing priority is more than just words on paper. We’re demanding they take action to root out every ‘bad apple’ effectively and swiftly to restore public confidence in policing.”

It states: “How many more bad apples? Together we’re calling on the Home Secretary to enforce mandatory suspension of all potential abusers, until and only if, they’re cleared following investigation.”

And the petition reads: “To: The Home Secretary

“Please implement a consistent suspension policy across police forces in England and Wales, where all police officers and staff accused of violence against women and girls are suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.”

This Writer is thinking of recent cases in the Metropolitan Police, in particular, and of the finding that the culture in that particular service means that rape is no longer treated as a crime in its area.

So I’ve signed the petition. Will you?

Apparently it is now illegal to sing satirical carols in the street

Members of Just Stop Oil have been threatened with arrest for singing Christmas carols – with altered lyrics to make them satirical, relevant to climate change – outside Keir Starmer’s house:

It’s certainly arguable that Just Stop Oil have done unacceptable things in the past – but is singing carols at Christmas really one of them?

Here’s a press release from the organisation:

Just Stop Oil supporters briefly gathered outside Keir Starmer’s house to sing ‘climate-criminal’ Christmas carols. They are demanding that, as the likely leader of the next UK government, Keir Starmer commit to cancelling all new oil and gas licences, including those already greenlit by the current government.

At around 8:30pm, a group of nine supporters of Just Stop Oil gathered outside Keir Starmer’s London residence to deliver a letter and to sing re-imagined versions of Christmas carols and popular songs- calling on Starmer to end all new oil, gas and coal projects in the UK. The supporters could be seen holding signs saying “Revoke Rosebank” and “Arrest the real criminals”.

Police ordered the group to disperse under section 42 of the criminal justice and police act and ordered them to leave the vicinity of the premises for three months or they would be arrested.

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Although Keir Starmer has stated that Labour will end new oil and gas projects in the UK, Labour has so far refused to cancel the new fossil fuel projects approved by Rishi Sunak’s government. This includes Rosebank, a project that is destined to emit more carbon into the atmosphere than 28 whole countries combined.

The carolers delivered a letter to Keir Starmer which can be read here.

One of those serenading Starmer this evening is Rory, from London, who is 25, and works as a secondary school teacher. He said:

“Beyond the culture wars and political point scoring, our world is at a crisis point. Our homes and our families are under threat. Our political system is failing us. At a time where bold leadership is required to deal with the multiple crises we face, Labour are promising more of the same. 

Failing to revoke new oil licences would be tantamount to ‘rubber-stamping’ the last ditch, ‘slash and burn’ actions of the current Tory leadership, who are hell-bent on enriching themselves and those they serve in the oil and gas lobby. This complicity is nothing short of a crime against humanity.”

Another of those ‘singing for Starmer’ is Rosie, aged 50, who works as an editor. She said:

“Starmer knows he needs to do the right thing for his children, and that is to cancel all new oil and gas licences if he gets to number 10. He is a former human rights lawyer, he should know the difference between right and wrong. 

History will not be kind to those who knew how bad the situation was with the climate, but allowed the extremists in the Tory party and oil lobby to destroy everything for their own selfish enrichment- killing millions in the process. The Tories have no mandate to issue these licences, and as PM, Starmer’s obligation is to serve the public who want action on the climate crisis now. ”

There have been 670 arrests of Just Stop Oil supporters since October 30th. There are currently three Just Stop Oil supporters in prison, two of which have been imprisoned for peacefully marching in the road. They join Marcus Decker, who has been imprisoned for over a year of his 2 years 7 months sentence. Fourteen Just Stop Oil supporters are currently under electronic tag surveillance.

Continued expansion of new oil and gas will bring about the wholesale destruction of ordered society and an end to the rule of law. We are not prepared to watch while the government continues to serve the interests of a few, at the expense of everyone else. It’s up to all of us to come together and resist. It is the will of the overwhelming majority of people that we take the actions necessary to ensure our survival and together we can make it happen.

Our government are the real criminals – imprisoning peaceful people for taking proportionate action to protect their communities, whilst licensing more than 100 new oil and gas projects, which will destroy everything we value. We’re coming together to demand an end to new oil and gas. It’s not a case of ‘if’ we will win; but ‘when’.


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Police more likely to Taser black people due to institutional racism | The Guardian

Police: black people were eight times more likely to be Tasered by them, and now only 4.2 times more likely. So what? It’s still institutional racism.

This is bad news for anyone who thought the police were going to reform after the Met was found to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic:

Police are far more likely to use a Taser electrical weapon against black people due to structural and institutional racism rather than the views of individual officers, a new report says.

The report says: “Our study suggests it may be a combination of societal issues and institutional policing priorities, policies and practices which are systematically and disproportionately affecting black and other ethnic minority communities in deprived neighbourhoods relative to the populations of more wealthy surrounding, predominantly white areas.

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“In other words, our study supports the idea that the patterns of ethnic disproportionality evident in the UK Home Office statistics cannot be explained solely or even primarily at the level of individual officer behaviour or psychology because they are an outcome of an interaction between structural and institutional racism.”

Chief constable Lucy D’Orsi, who speaks for the NPCC on use of the weapon, said: “In 2019-20 black people were eight times more likely to have it used on them. Whilst figures from 2022-23 stats have shown a reduction to 4.2 times more likely, it is vital that we question why that is and take action.

“We welcome the findings of the report and are committed to thoroughly reviewing the content so that we can make appropriate changes to have a positive impact on the lives of black people.”

This Writer would suggest that the way police use Tasers is already impacting the lives of black people.

Source: Police more likely to Taser black people due to institutional racism, report finds | Police | The Guardian


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Braverman’s legacy: tents of homeless people are destroyed by council(?) and police

Braverman’s last wish: tents belonging to homeless people are loaded onto a rubbish compactor lorry.

There’s a couplet in Moby Dick that runs like this:

From Hell’s heart I stab at thee,
For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

One of Suella Braverman’s last breaths as Home Secretary, if one can put it like that, was to suggest that being homeless is a “lifestyle choice” and call for rough sleepers to have their tents taken away from them – just as the autumn and winter chill started to set in.

Then last Friday (November 10), this happened:

Even now the facts are unclear.

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But a BBC report provides this information on what it said was a Metropolitan Police operation:

Refuse workers threw the tents into the back of their lorry on Huntley Street, Camden, at about 15:00 GMT on Friday.

The Met said it “worked with University College London Hospital and other partners in response to concerns”.

It is understood that the NHS hospital trust, which has a building entrance on the road, requested the dispersal of rough sleepers but not the destruction of tents.

Refuse company Veolia was contacted for comment.

A University College London Hospital (UCLH) spokesperson said “public health concerns” prompted the action.

Elodie Berland, who volunteers with outreach organisation Streets Kitchen… said the homeless men “had everything taken away from them”.

She said that about 10 tents were destroyed along with the men’s personal belongings as the Met issued a S35 dispersal order, which requires people to vacate an area for a maximum of 48 hours.

It seems Braverman’s final hate-filled wish as Home Secretary has been granted – ironically, by the police force she attacked in the newspaper article that prompted Rishi Sunak to sack her.


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Right-wingers rush to boost Braverman after ‘police bias’ article

Sulky: Suella Braverman is acting like a schoolgirl trying to stir up trouble over imaginary insults.

Suella Braverman is facing calls to resign as Home Secretary – or be pushed out – after The Times published an article in which she accused the police of left-wing bias.

But does she need to fear for her job when hard-right lunatics on the social media are rushing to support her?

The BBC has reported the issue as follows:

She claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were “rightly met with a stern response”, while “pro-Palestinian mobs” were “largely ignored”.

The article was not cleared by Downing Street and suggested changes to the text were not followed, No 10 said.

Some Tories have called for the home secretary to be sacked.

It comes ahead of a Pro-Palestinian march for a ceasefire in Gaza, which is due to take place in central London on Saturday.

It strikes This Writer as odd that – for example – the Metropolitan Police, which has been found to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic – all right-wing faults, should be accused of lefty bias.

But it seems to me that Braverman may have used her article, in advance of the Armistice Day march calling for peace in Gaza (which she opposes), to stir up her attack dogs.

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Let’s have a look at what some of them have been saying (with relevant responses where possible):

Let’s have another response, covering the lockdown comment:

For clarity: Danny Kruger is a Conservative MP and his claims about the Armistice Day march are all false. It is not a march in sympathy with terrorism and it does not call for Israel to be dissolved. The only conclusion one should draw from his post is that he should be removed from Parliament as soon as possible.

The danger with this one is that Ms Wallersteiner may be seen to be inviting people to believe that everybody taking part in the peace marches have been calling for Jews to die and ripping down posters of Israeli hostages. In fact, the peace marches have all included substantial contingents of Jewish participants, and it seems highly unlikely that they would call for their fellow Jews to be killed.

Just to hammer the point home, let’s have another response to the same post:

I’m sure you get the gist by now; right-wing mouthpieces have come out in support of Braverman but nothing they say makes any sense.

Sadly, as some of the responses have pointed out, the cack-handed way the Armistice Day march has been handled by politicians like Braverman means hard-right-wing nutcases have organised themselves to converge on London and hold demonstrations of their own.

It seems they are determined to converge on the cenotaph that politicians, police and the media have said should be left alone as a mark of respect.

These are people who say they support Braverman’s point of view, remember.

Let’s see what happens on the day and lay any blame where it belongs afterwards.


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