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The Met has got this very wrong and something has to change to make women feel the streets are safe
The Met has got this very wrong and something has to change to make women feel the streets are safe – politicalbetting.com
Given what the issue was that caused the Saturday evening vigil on Clapham Common the way that the Metropolitan Police have handled it looks appalling and naive and the Mail, surely, has read the public mood right in its approach for tomorrow’s front page.
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Saw a clip of the interview. I see what Dan Hodges meant. Hopeless and tin eared.
https://twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1371161905872695300?s=20
Of course, she should go though. I just wish it was outside of politics and they all just united over the issue.
Pretty amazing when you consider some of the big beasts of the past, including a few that made it into the 21st century.
But now, in years of tremendous change and crisis - zilch. WTF???
No wonder a freaking yard gnome like fuqing Jeremy Corbyn could rise to be Labour leader. Pathetic hardly does it justice.
She ran in 2020 and she was awful, she's good but not for leadership, IMHO.
Starmer remains the best they've got, admittedly a low bar.
M&S tulips. Groovy leggings. Labradoodles.
The murder was horrendous but something in me bridles at the middle-classness of it all. Feminism by Waitrose
Rashford powered by RocNation, whose rep who deals with his campaigns, again extremely well connected lady.
Remember young Greta, often not talked about, her parents are extremely well connected individuals in Sweden.
The EU ban on GM foods showed they were always a bit dodgy on the life sciences front.
I can't work out if their current antagonism to AZ is because they know they don't have enough vaccine and want to divert their populations anger away from themselves or because they genuinely don't understand the precautionary principal.
It is their very middle classness which makes them tough to dismiss.
The PM is soaring in the polls and will win. In common with all governments right now.
How long that will last who knows?
For a second time in a century, West Australians have overwhelmingly endorsed the idea of breaking away from the federation, re-electing a wildly popular Premier, whose crowning achievement during the pandemic has been shutting the border and closing WA to the "eastern states".
You don't have to scratch too deeply below the surface to pick up on the resource-rich state's secessionist sentiment, driven by its isolation and the feeling it's often overlooked by the rest of Australia.
But few WA Premiers have had the opportunity to really tap into, and test, the extent of that parochialism. Until now.
As the most popular leader in the country, Mark McGowan's victory on Saturday was never in doubt.
As polling day drew closer, the question wasn't, "Will Labor win?" it was, "How big can Labor win?"
Well, that question has now been answered: astronomically big.
Voters in the west handed Labor a landslide victory unlike anything seen before and so comprehensively rejected the Liberal Party that it's now on the brink of extinction.
In the new State Parliament, Labor will hold at least 53 of the 59 seats and the Liberals just two, meaning the Nationals — which won 4 regional seats — will become the official opposition.
With a likely Labor majority in the Upper House, WA has virtually become a one-party state. . . .
Prime Minister Scott Morrison not only opposed McGowan's hard border but doubled down by siding with controversial Queensland businessman Clive Palmer — who is toxic in WA — to challenge its constitutionality in the High Court. They lost.
For a man who ran Operation Sovereign Borders, it's ironic that Morrison so profoundly misread the mood on this one.
As one source put it, "[The federal government] doesn't look like it's barracking for WA," — a perception made even worse by the fact that Morrison didn't once visit the state during the campaign.
Federally, the Liberals have been dominant in WA, their brand bolstered by Morrison's "miracle" win in 2019 which saw the party take 11 of the 16 seats in the west.
But after Saturday's devastating defeat, the party lost the state-based infrastructure and resourcing that's vital to fight elections and run costly campaigns.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-15/wa-election-federal-implications-voting/13239076
The Party of the PM looks set to increase its votes and seats then.
That doesn't always happen.
Time for a Sir Dominic Cummings, Duke of Durham.
Seriously, what the actual????
https://twitter.com/coburn4ukunion/status/1371241250490318852
Just like in France in that infamous clip where Macron's minister attacks Le Pen for not being Islamophobic enough.
We're through the looking glass it seems.
Really, the national policing functions of the Met should be separated out and the London police force made a matter for the Mayor.
"Assembly for me, but not for thee
The anger over the police assault on the Sarah Everard vigil has exposed the double standards of the liberal elite."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/14/assembly-for-me-but-not-for-thee/
Anyway thanks all for the comments and interesting chat on my header on the previous thread.
Was amused that a thread starting out discussing sexual harassment of women ended up with @Leon telling us of his mate's conquest of gazillions of call girls.
Night all.
And the Sir Ed & the LibDems lining nicely up alongside the DM for the week's hate.
FWIW, I think Cressida has bloodied hands over the vastly more serious business of the assassination of Jean Charles de Menezes. She should never have been appointed.
But, nothing sums the UK up better than Cressida finally getting her come-uppance because the DM & the LibDems have come together to drive the Outrage Bus over her.
by Shirley Eikhard and made a hit by Bonnie Raitt
People are talkin', talkin' about people
I hear them whisper you won't believe it
They think we're lovers kept under covers
I just ignore it but they keep saying
We laugh just a little too loud
We stand just a little too close
We stare just a little too long
Maybe they're seeing something we don't darlin'
Let's give 'em something to talk about
Let's give us something to talk about
I got a little something to talk about
How's about a little something to talk about
How about love?
I feel so foolish, I never noticed
You'd act so nervous
Could you be falling baby?
It took a rumor to make me wonder
Now I'm convinced I'm going under
Thinking 'bout you every day
Dreaming 'bout you every night
Hoping that you feel the same way
Now that we know it let's really show it darlin'
Let's give them something to talk about
A little mystery to figure out
I want a little something to talk about
I want your love, love, love
Give 'em a little something to talk about baby
I got a little something they can figure out
Let's give them something to talk about
How about love, love, love?
Woo, hoo. listen up baby
I want your love, love, love
I want your love, love, love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLpRBDrhn8&list=RDMM&index=7
In reality, it means 30,000 Irish people will not get an expected jab next week
https://twitter.com/theskibeagle/status/1371246113680986112?s=21
That’s quite a lot. If only a fraction of them now catch Covid and 1% of them die, it means several more deaths and multiples of that in hospital. And that’s just one week’s pause in a very small country. This stuff matters.
Goodnight PB
And then I remember that the journalist probably already thought of that and is frustrated at not being able to make the joke more explicitly.
I'm sure there was a point to this post when I started it.
"Quite rightly, as far as I can see, my team felt that this is now an unlawful gathering which poses a considerable risk to people's health," she said. "I don't think anybody who was not in the operation can actually pass a detailed comment on the rightness and wrongness... This is fiendishly difficult policing."
She added: "What has happened makes me more determined, not less, to lead my organisation.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56389824
Fiendishly difficult, my arse
The mere fact that that is her assessment of the situation shows she is not qualified for the job.
When the crowd is there because of the behaviour of one of their own dodgy coppers, the Met come down hard on them with batons and cuffs.
Easy to understand.
Or rather, with replacing her.
Boris sacked Ian Blair, even though in theory it was the Home Secretary's remit, not the Mayor's.
So the question is, did Mayor Boris effectively give Mayor Sadiq a veto on any proposed replacement? Whoever might win the battle to appoint a new Commissioner, is it really a fight Boris wants shortly before the Mayoral election? On the other hand, Boris will not want Sadiq to sack Dame Cressida before he can. Which way to jump? The Prime Minister might need to write two letters.
The most obvious solution is to split the Met in two, with the nationally-focussed agencies moved under the command of the Home Secretary - in a similar way to how British Transport Police operate - and a day-to-day London policing force under the Mayor.
An arrangement which, with the current case, might have led to a different response - as the policeman charged with the murder being from one of those national areas, but the protests policed by the local London force.
What is clear, is that the Mayor needs to be the politician accountable for the behaviour of routine London policing, and held accountable at the ballot box. This was the whole point of electing police commissioners in the first place, so the people can influence the priorities given to the police.
Johnson, as Mayor, did a good job of forcing the previous incumbent out of Scotland Yard, it’s surprising that Khan isn’t trying to do the same only a couple of months away from his own election. Large numbers of Londoners have lost faith in the police, after the events of the last couple of weeks.
Woman states her issues calmly and quietly. Nothing happens.
Woman states her issues calmly and quietly again. Nothing happens.
This goes on until, sooner or later, the woman explodes in anger.
Then, the man says to her, "Why can't you just tell me all that, calmly and quietly?"
Good morning, everyone.
Does the government always win there too?
Of course, you only have to go back about 15 years to see an election result where the top two parties were completely different.
The Dutch authorities have blocked its use for at least a fortnight, and 43,000 pre-existing appointments have been cancelled.
The precise numbers would take a bit of crunching, but it ought to be obvious to every one of those regulators, who are used to dealing with medical statistics.
https://twitter.com/onisillos/status/1371062632724193280
https://twitter.com/Anna_Soubry/status/1371162641977249793
There's a COVID inquiry to come, remember. She'll be a key witness.
F1: Verstappen's down a bit more to 4.33. But Hamilton still clear favourite at 1.4.
Interestingly, the Bahrain market (winner's the only one up on Ladbrokes) has Hamilton 2.5 and Verstappen 2.62.
Perez is 8.5. Unfortunately the each way is only top 2, but if you think Mercedes are in trouble and Red Bull's looking good, one to consider. Worth noting Mercedes tends not to top timesheets at testing, although the snappy rear end, if untamed, could be a problem.
It looks very much like a domino effect is now happening, with each of these reports of a blood clotting incident, any unexplained death following vaccination, and every suspension by a regulator increasing the pressure on all the remaining countries that are still using AZ to follow suit. It can't be doing any good at all for the hesitancy problem, either.
And, in the end, all the delays are likely to achieve is longer lockdowns and more deaths. As I said in a previous thread, it's like the rest of Europe has developed this urge to punch itself in the face over and over again, and is finding it increasingly hard to resist.
Do any PB lawyers know what the term means in law ?
https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1371300834219327489
All things considered, could the EU have acted in a more damaging way over vaccines?
The national agencies are overriding the EMA here.
At least such countries won't be able to accuse the UK of sending them a vaccine we wouldn't use ourselves.
But leaving that aside...
If I remember correctly, she was described as middle-aged, blonde and speaking with a German accent.
Unless of course the witnesses were Leyen.
I think part of the problem is that people demand that things are 100% safe and 100% effective, and authorities pander to this impossible childish demand, rather than just being honest from the start and treating people like adults saying:
"There is no such thing as 100% safe, every medical procedure has some kind of risk" and then put that risk into some kind of perspective by comparing it with other things most people do every day.
Then they don't have to overreact to the inevitable clusters that are bound to happen when vaccinating millions of people, they can just say of course they are investigating everything while continuing to save lives by vaccinating as fast as possible.
I wonder now whether, had we still been in the EU, our part of that global increase would not have happened. It's one thing to think we'd have fallen in with the EU scheme to our own detriment, but quite another to think that all countries would have been fighting over a smaller global supply.
And has anyone postulated that the reason for suspicions over AstraZeneca is because many Europeans no longer trust any official statements from the UK. I mean, our present Government has always taken the view that it's word is it's bond hasn't it?
PS. I now wait to be accused of voyeurism!
It was indeed the happy cob and pen.
Goodness knows I have been critical of her, but I saw this and she clearly cares a great deal about this campaign and performed well.
The interviewer kept pushing for her to call for Dick to be sacked - she wanted to talk about the issue (said she didn’t want the headlines to be all about her views on Dick’s future).
It was the interviewer trying to make it a process story that deserves the criticism