This story contains yet more evidence of how Britain has become a bit of a clown world. It covers much of what has gone wrong with Britain and runs from the capricious much abused ‘hate speech’ legislation that silences those who dissent from the left and progressive world view, to an example of a rather dim sounding police employee who hasn’t bothered to familiarise herself with either the law, or any of the words spoken and written by the person that she’s implying needs to account for them at a police station. You can view the video below:

The women’s campaigner Kelly Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker, is at the centre of this latest demonstration of what life has become like on Clown World Island. She has received a phone call from a police employee saying that she should attend a voluntary police interview in Brighton. The police have alleged that Ms Keen-Minshull said something ‘homophobic’ at a rally by Gender Critical women in the city. I’ve heard a lot of Ms Keen-Minshull’s stuff over the years and her focus of criticism has never been of LGB people, her animus has always been the cult of Trans. I suspect that the nice but dim police employee or someone else in Sussex Police, the force that encompasses Brighton, has got this wrong and the allegation has been recorded wrongly. Instead of the alleged incident being concerned with sexual orientation it is more likely to be a complaint from a trans activist over something Ms Keen-Minshull might have said about the cult of Trans. If this is the case then not only does it show that Sussex Police are somewhat incompetent but it also shows how debased and capricious laws like those against ‘hate speech’ do not need any real evidence, just the perception by an individual that someone else has said something that they find offensive.

Here’s the video

Barrister and women’s rights campaigner Sarah Phillimore has said that she had been at several Standing For Women rallies where Ms Keen-Minshull had spoken and had not heard anything that could remotely be legally described as ‘hate speech’. Ms Phillimore added that the police by behaving in this manner towards Ms Keen-Minshull seem to have forgotten that there have been two major High Court judgements that have criticised the police and the Crown Prosecution Service over their management of alleged ‘hate speech’ cases. The cases that Ms Phillimore mentioned are the Harry Miller vs College of Policing and Scottow vs CPS. These cases should have put some restraints on police forces and police management from becoming the enforcement arm of identity politics activists and engaging in politicised policing, but various forces seem to be ignoring them. Some forces like that of Sussex are carrying on in their own merry way quietly slapping people with ‘non crime hate incident ‘ tags on people’s criminal records and arresting people for their expressed opinions or for satire.

When I look at stories like this I start to wonder ‘whose police are they’? Are they still the ‘citizen in uniform’ as Sir Robert Peel intended, who work for the general benefit of the public? Or are they fully owned, bought and paid for by groups like Stonewall? Sadly when I see what Sussex are trying to do to Ms Keen-Minshull it’s difficult not to shake the feeling that Sussex Police are not there for the people of Sussex, they are there to do the bidding of groups like Stonewall and other less than savoury identity politics groups.