Whilst London descends into a gyre of street violence and death that is most often suffered by the innocent and the vulnerable of London’s citizens, the British Transport Police, like the Metropolitan Police, have yet again shown whose side they are on, and it is not the side of the hard pressed innocent and hard working Londoner. Instead of dealing with the crime wave that has erupted in London’s transport network, especially since Sadiq Khan became mayor of Greater London, they are trying to entrap and arrest those who do the police’s job for them.

Following on from the incident recently at Canning Town station where commuters, frustrated by the lack of police action against the Extinction Rebellion protestors who held up trains by climbing on top of them, the British Transport Police have spoken. The BTP are not, as could be expected and desired, going after the eco-fascists who caused the disruption and prosecute them under the Railway Regulation Act of 1840 which could result in fines of at least £1000 for the trespassers. On the contrary, these middle class eco-fascists are being treated with kid gloves and instead the BTP is going after the members of the public who quite rightly removed the Extinction Rebellion protestors from the trains so that the commuters could continue their journeys to work. Instead of targetting the criminals who held up trains, the BTP are going after the members of the public who removed these criminals from the trains.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, police are now searching for those public spirited people who did what the police should have done and removed the eco-fascists from the roof of the train. I have little doubt that the police will try to throw the book at these members of the public, partially because they are told to go easy on the eco-fascists, but also because the police have been publicly embarrassed by ordinary citizens sorting out these protestors, a job that should have been done by the police.

The Mail said:

Police are investigating and seeking to acquire evidence on a number of commuters who ‘carried out a vigilante-style attack’ on an Extinction Rebellion protester who scaled a tube train. 

Angry commuters dragged climate demonstrators James Mee, 35, and Mark Ovland, 36, from the roof of a train as they attempted to bring chaos to the capital’s morning rush-hour on Thursday.  

In video taken during the incident it then appeared as though a scuffle broke out between the protester and the commuters. 

Eight XR protesters were arrested as a result of the action but British Transport Police have now confirmed that the commuters involved are also being investigated. 

Who, I ask, is truly in the wrong here? The much of middle class eco-fascists who started this problem or the public who did the police’s job for them? It should have been the police pulling these eco-fascists off the top of the train, not members of the public, but where were the police? They were nowhere to be seen it seems.

This action by the police in targetting the public spirited commuters and going easy on the eco-fascists are I’m afraid typical of how many police forces in Britain now behave. They will nearly always go after the low hanging fruit whether it be people criticising Islam on Facebook or those dealing with a threat to their livelihood, as was the case with those members of the public who fought back at Canning Town.

The only outcome from this action by the police will be a further degradation of the police’s public image in the minds of the general population. The police will end up further despised by the public and held in even lower esteem than they are at present. The action by commuters at Canning Town has been described in the press as ‘vigilantism’ but it is my belief that it is not. What the public did at Canning Town is what any right thinking honest citizen should do as although on this occasion it was merely a couple of stinky hippies causing trouble, tomorrow it could be a terrorist intent on causing death and havoc. It’s not vigilantism when the public is merely doing what the police should have done.

I would like to conclude this piece by giving some advice that could protect those who bravely and correctly took on the idiots of Extinction Rebellion and that is to say nothing to the police about this matter. Do not help them in any way shape or form whether by giving names or helping the police piece together identities by giving descriptions of what I and others would call the ‘heroes of Canning Town’ who gave the crusties a bit of what they deserve. The only thing that people should say to the police if they are asked to for information is this: ‘I saw nothing, I heard nothing’. To do otherwise is to be on the side of a police force that now so obviously hates the public and fails in its duty to protect the public. With police like this is it any wonder that now even law abiding people are referring to the police as ‘filth’?