Any last vestige of trust that I and many other Britons may have had in the Metropolitan and to a lesser extent the British Transport Police, died yesterday. What we saw during the policing of pro-Hamas and British patriot demonstrations was a clear but monstrous example of two tier policing.
There was a marked difference to how the Jew-hate heavy pro-Hamas protests were policed. There was markedly softer policing of the pro-Hamas protestors than how the opponents, some followers of Tommy Robinson, but many of them not, were treated. From what I could see of the policing from social media, the police presented a baseball capped soft approach to the pro-Hamas crew but the policing of the opponents of the Jew haters was a full on riot helmet and shield affair. The Met have left the public in no doubt as to which faction they are pandering to and sadly it’s not patriotic Britons of all races and faiths, it’s the screaming Jew haters from the Left and from the Islamic community.
Since the October 7th Pogrom in Israel Britain and especially London has been treated to displays of some of the worst Jew hatred since the days of Oswald Mosley. This Jew hate has come primarily from the far Left, including allegedly some Labour Party members and an increasingly volatile coterie of Islamic extremists although the Left/Islamic Jew hate coalition has also been spoken of approvingly by real Jackboot lickers like Nick Griffin formerly of the neo-Nazi British National Party. The support of these hate marches by the likes of Griffin should make sensible but naive leftists who are supporting these hate marches, take a pause for thought and that thought should be ‘If Griffin in on my side then maybe I’m on the wrong side?’
The opponents to this of this festival of Jew hate were, as well as Mr Robinson’s supporters, mostly those who wanted to honour Britain’s war dead and voice their displeasure at the Islamic and Left wing Jew hatred that the Met Police, Greater London’s Mayor and the national government have allowed to fester in London’s streets. In contrast to how the pro-Hamas protestors were treated which is with kid gloves, the patriots who wanted to honour the war dead and oppose the Jew haters that the Govt and Mayor Khan have allowed to take over the streets, ended up being bloodied by police batons.
At one point, in I believe Trafalgar Square, after nightfall, the Met officers allowed Islamist and Leftist thugs to attack patriots unhindered. Riot police all helmeted and shielded just allowed the Islamist and Leftists to run riot. The scuttlebutt around this incident is that the Met were ordered to behave like this by Mayor Khan himself. I have yet to ascertain whether this allegation contains any truth but after witnessing weeks and weeks of pro-Hamas policing, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility.
The weekend’s events have shown that the now former Home Secretary Suella Braverman was speaking the truth about the Met’s descent into biased and bent policing. Whether the new Home Secretary James Cleverly can turn this around and get the Met to do their fucking jobs and deal with the Islamic and Leftist savages who have turned London into a weekly Jew hate festival is another matter. Personally I’m so disgusted with the weakness of this government in the face of enormous social and civilizational challenges that I will not hold my breath waiting for what is much needed change.
The Met have shamed themselves and the nation again and it is difficult to disagree with the chants that the patriot protestors aimed at the police which accused the Met of ‘letting the country down. It was another clown show by the Met and that is nothing to laugh at.
BTW: Agree entirely with your thesis. The worst I’ve seen (perhaps there is worse) is of a “far-right thug” screaming aggressively at a Hamasnic “What are you, a terrorist?”. Now Whilst I would have wanted to say “Calm down Sir, please.” I do not think that asking a Hamasnic if they are, or support terrorism is unjustified, much less a “hate crime”. But of course, hate is in the eyes/ear/nose/etc. of the beholder, so a reasonable question and (dear G*d) even objective truth is no defence against “hate”.
Not sure what Cleverley can do.
It’s Khan who is the Politzei Commissar and who thus sets the tone for the Pro-Hamas policing. Rowley presumably takes his orders from Khan and also, as we know, from ‘experts’ who don’t know calls for sword-Jihad from people “struggling” with the cost of living.
Given also how the Met (or is that Gestapo now) arrested 80+ “far right” demonstrators preemptively, Rowley’s claim that the law isn’t clear enough on what counts as “hate” (absolutely anything, dumbkopf) or “incitement”, or “breach of the peace” rings very, very hollow.
There is disgustingly blatant bent policing going on in London. I agree with you that I see the hand of Khan in much of the Met’s current failings.
Part of a comment that I posted a few days ago on one of Longrider’s posts.
“The police force, particularly the Met, are now nothing but a disgrace. That, to the best of our ability, everyone should be equal before the law is an essential foundation stone of a civilised society. How will civilisation stand if that is gone? The answer is that it won’t, the police and the courts have placed certain people above the law, what do suppose will happen as a consequence of that?”
Damned good point there. A good way to collapse both law and trust and respect for the law is to enforce it with the sort of visible and gleeful prejudice that police agencies and courts currently do.