PCS members working for the Metropolitan Police Service have voted to strike over pay. They’re disputing the “two-tier” system that means officers get treated more “favourably” than their members…
PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote said:
“Our members in the Met Police have had enough of being treated like an afterthought. Their almost 100% vote for strike action sends a strong message. Police staff will not tolerate being treated as second-class citizens within their own workplaces.”
More than 140 members will walk out on 5 November. Operation standstill…
A mind-boggling move this week from Labour. During an otherwise unremarkable debate on the Bus Services (No.2) Bill in the House of Lords, the government ordered its peers to vote against an amendment (from one of their own backbenchers) to introduce mandatory reporting of serious assaults on the bus network. The Tories inflicted a government defeat – becoming more and more common in the Lords. Successfully passing an amendment to require all bus operators to record violent incidents, in an effort to aid police detection rates…
Recorded violence on Britain’s public transport network is up, with a 20% increase on last year in attacks on women and girls, according to figures from the British Transport Police Authority. Labour are not even doing the basics to crush crime…
Co-conspirators who frequent the capital are now fairly likely to have had a phone or bike nabbed by thieves. A phone is now stolen in London every six minutes…
Guido hears from the Home Office that the department has fully developed a beefed up set of new rules which would allow police officers to enter premises without a warrant in order to seize stolen devices with GPS tracking. Such a change enter legislation…
The Home Office newsdesk has been contacted for comment. Sources tell Guido that the policy, once fully greenlit, will appear in Labour’s Crime and Policing Bill – that’s not due for some time yet. Alterations could still be made before it goes through parliament…
The police have come under fire for a shocking assault on free speech, following their heavy-handed raid on Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson’s home on Sunday. All because of a year-old post she shared on X – the contents of which she isn’t even allowed to know. She’s now under investigation for a so-called “non-crime hate incident.” Though the police chose the wrong target if they were hoping for an easy ride…
The backlash has been swift, with high-profile figures taking aim at the attack on free speech. Boris Johnson weighed in last night, posting:
“How can Starmer’s Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist gets a knock on the door – for a tweet? Our police have their hands full of burglaries and violent crime. They are being forced to behave like a woke Securitate – and it has to stop.”
Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, and Iain Duncan Smith have also come to Pearson’s defence, slamming the force for policing tweets rather than the streets. Meanwhile tech billionaire Elon Musk also took a swing at the madness – posting “this needs to stop”. Starmer’s Britain is looking more Orwellian by the day…
The minister in charge of policing had her purse stolen at a conference about…policing. Crime, Policing and Fire minister Diana Johnson met with senior police officers earlier today when her wallet was nicked, having just spoken at the conference bemoaning the “epidemic of anti-social behaviour, theft and shoplifting”. You couldn’t make it up…
The incident sent the Home Office into hight alert as they are now “probing security risks” while Warwickshire Police have confirmed they are investigating the theft. Let’s hope it wasn’t one of those early released prisoners…
Labour is continuing its clamp down on free speech. Yvette Cooper has reversed the Tories’ decision last year to stop police recording so many “non-crime hate incidents” as it was a waste of police time. Under the Tories police were restricted to recording incidents which posed a real risk of escalating into “significant” harm…
Labour proudly declares today that “Home Office has committed to reverse the decision of the previous government to downgrade the monitoring of anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate, at a time when rates of those incidents have increased.” Police will now be told to record the “non-crime” incidents, which is apparently needed to “monitor tensions.” It’s OK, though: Labour says it is “balancing” the plans with the right to free speech. How long will it be before Labour re-commits to locking up those who go about “misgendering” people…
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.”