Senior Tory, Reform and Labour figures have united to endorse a new Policy Exchange report tearing into the crumbling Metropolitan Police. According to the findings, public confidence in the Met has sunk to an all-time low under Mark Rowley’s three-year tenure. Just 45% of Londoners believing the force is doing a good job in their own neighbourhood…
The report reveals the Met is managing to solve just 1 in 20 reported robberies and burglaries, 1 in 76 bike thefts, a miserable 1 in 179 theft-from-person offences, and 1 in 13 shoplifting cases. Grim numbers…
Labour MP Jonathan Hinder, Tory MPs Chris Philp and Nick Timothy, a pair of Conservative peers, and Reform’s Laila Cunningham have all backed the report. It calls for the Home Secretary to become the Met’s official “policing body”, removing the Mayor of London’s policing oversight role. Take it off Sadiq’s hands…
Read the report in full below:
The Metropolitan Police increased the number of non-crime hate incidents it recorded after it announced it was dropping them. Surprise surprise…
After the Graham Linehan Heathrow farce the Met told the media it was putting a stop to non-crime hate incident investigations, saying “the commissioner has been clear he doesn’t believe officers should be policing toxic culture war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position.” All noise…
Data obtained by Guido’s FOI Unit shows that from the 1st of August to the date of the announcement on 20 October the Met was recording an average of 50 non-crime hate incidents per week, as the below chart displays:
In the week after the announcement recordings actually went up at an average of 58 in seven days:
The Met claims that continuing to record the ‘incidents’ is useful because they are “valuable pieces of intelligence to establish potential patterns of behaviour or criminality” – which makes no sense seeing as they are not criminal offences and are barely investigated anyway. The College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council has formally recommended they are scrapped entirely…
Labour could scrap non-crime hate incidents properly if it wanted to. Or it could just pretend it is doing it as usual…
UPDATE: A Met spokesman said:
“We have been clear we will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents. However, we will record an incident if it’s reported to us. This will ensure we have valuable intelligence to establish any patterns of behaviour or criminality. The number of incidents reported to us are obviously out of our control and not an indication of increased police action.” Why keep recording them then…
Last month over a thousand protestors gathered outside the Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets to protest plans for the new Chinese mega-embassy. Blocked by the council and the previous government, Labour called in a fresh application this time round for Xi…
Last time IDS, Jenrick, and Labour’s Blair McDougall showed up to provide support to Hong Kongers and others. There is a fresh protest upcoming on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Same place…
Kevin Hollinrake is speaking alongside a cross-party group of MPs and pro-democracy political figures. The Met Police, which previously opposed the embassy before curiously withdrawing its concerns, is likely to impost Section 14 (Public Order Act) conditions restricting some protestors from turning up at the gates of the property. Traffic is likely to be stopped on some roads. The lack of space means a fulsome protest will likely spill onto the road like last time. One of the key objections to the embassy’s new location was that there isn’t enough space there for a protest. The point is being proven here…
Co-conspirators may have seen the footage from yesterday’s pro-Palestine march in London. The march broke through a police line on its way to the BBC…
Corbyn and McDonnell were photographed at the front of the rally, at which 77 people were arrested. The pair will voluntarily be interviewed at a police station in London this afternoon as the Met investigates what it claims was co-ordinated effort to breach the terms agreed with the march’s organisers. Ten others have been charged with public order offences…
Corbyn had hit back at the Met’s description of events, claiming he was “part of a delegation of speakers, who wished to peacefully carry and lay flowers in memory of children in Gaza who had been killed. This was facilitated by the police. We did not force our way through.” McDonnell was suspended from Labour back in July – he is due to be readmitted right about now…
Labour’s efforts to thwart more strikes and re-build the relationship with the unions continue to fall flat. For the first time, Metropolitan Police staff have voted to strike after 2,400 staff were ordered to grace their desks…three days a week. The PCS Union – the largest trade union in the civil service – said a whopping 85% of its members backed the walkout. Including 999 call handlers and child protection officers…
Civil Service union PCS’ General Secretary Fran Heathcote lamented the “stress” of commuting for staff. She naturally blamed the ‘right-wing media’ for the whole affair:
“Our members are not bobbies on the beat. They are desk-based civilians who work from home just as productively as if they were in the office, but without the stress and cost of a daily commute. It’s time politicians and the right-wing media stopped their obsession with telling people where they have to work.”
Meanwhile, Starmer’s saccharine letter to civil service staff hasn’t calmed tensions, with the FDA civil service union head Dave Penman ripping into Starmer’s “‘tepid bath’ jibe,” which “still jars”, saying it was “cackhanded attempt to sound innovative,” and has “done a lot of damage.” Starmer’s stuck in the handcuffs on this one…
Guido first raised Starmer’s potential multiple electoral law breach last month over his living in an address in a constituency other than the one put on his nomination paper. Starmer himself said he and his family moved into Lord Alli’s £18 million penthouse before the deadline for submitting nomination papers – in the Cities of London and Westminster…
Starmer admitted about his son:
“I promised him we would move somewhere, get out of the house and go somewhere where he could be peacefully studying”
UKIP’s Paul Nuttall was investigated by police in 2017 for claiming on his nomination paper that he lived at a house hadn’t yet moved into. He was forced to prove to them that he used his house regularly as a “base” in the campaign for the Stoke By-Election. Guido understands that the City of London Police are in the process of referring the matter to the Met in response to a submitted inquiry. The Met will be formally required to consider it. An equal application of the law would see the matter investigated, seeing as Nuttall was officially probed for the exact same reason…
Starmer told parliament he was living at Lord Alli’s in Covent Garden (Westminster and Camden) before and after the election, declared as the sworn truth that at the time he was was living in Kentish Town (Holbron & St Pancras) on his nomination form. The law is clear, must be current address or you are committing a criminal offence.
Those who contact the Chief Executives Office of Camden Council with regard to Starmer’s potential breach of electoral law have been contacted by Camden’s Borough Solicitor, who advises them to contact the police “immediately.” Translation: ‘We do not want to deal with this one’…
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”
