A visibly angry Met Police boss Sir Mark Rowley grabbed a reporter’s microphone and chucked it on the ground this morning when he was grilled about “two-tier policing”. The Mail has more.
As he exited the Cabinet Office, the visibly angry Scotland Yard chief was filmed being asked by a Sky News journalist: “Are we going to end two-tier policing sir?”
In the astonishing footage, Sir Mark was shown taking part of the microphone before throwing it to the floor as he headed towards a waiting car.
The bizarre incident came amid intense pressure on police chiefs to get a grip on the violent disorder causing chaos on U.K. streets, in the wake of last week’s Southport stabbing attack.
Sir Keir Starmer is also scrambling to put a lid on tensions and end the rioting in the first big test of his premiership since entering Downing Street a month ago.
After chairing an emergency Cobra meeting this morning, the Prime Minister pledged a “standing army” of specialist police officers to tackle what he has condemned as “far-Right thuggery”.
He and other senior ministers met with police chiefs and prison bosses in response to the continuing violence being waged by far-Right thugs.
They updated on efforts to deploy officers to trouble hotspots, boost court capacity and tackle online criminality and misinformation as social media is used to whip up rioters.
“Two-tier policing” is a phrase used to described an impression that some protests and demonstrations are dealt with more harshly than others.
Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage earlier claimed the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 had left feelings of “two-tier policing”, although his remarks were dismissed by Tory former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel.
A narrative of ‘politicised’ or ‘two-tier policing’ has also been pushed by far-Right figures, including England Defence League founder Tommy Robinson.
The PM’s official spokesman said Sir Keir “wouldn’t recognise that characterisation of policing”.
“The job of the police is to keep everyone safe, to tackle violence and disorder no matter the origination,” the spokesman added.
“There is no justification at all for the scenes we have seen. There is no justification for any sorts of criminal activity.
“The police will always will always carry out their job without fear or favour.”
Worth reading in full.
Erm, isn’t grabbing a microphone and throwing it on the floor criminal damage?
You just had to answer the question, Mark. No need to have a temper tantrum.
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Oh good, more programmes about hunting, polo and shooting, which have been notably absent of late…
If the same people that push out all the ‘diverse’ BBC content are reviewing whether they suffer from group think then we can be sure that the programmes about hunting, polo and shooting will portray whitey as a racist toff wishing for the return of the Empire.
That’s a yes from me.
With an emphasis on attracting the BAME community no doubt.
Nah, golf. Where I live the local white working class men (most reviled group) are often great golf enthusiasts.
Golf gets at least some coverage (although the BBC has probably lost all the big events because it couldn’t find £5m out of its £5Bn budget to buy the TV rights). The minority activities that I am talking about, and the people who take part jn them, either get zero coverage, or the BBC believes that it can cast them in a negative light with impunity. But I didn’t really expect the BBC to redress the balance – they are stone deaf to anything outside their ‘minorities’ echo chamber
Good point
I remember fishing but not the others, apart from Jack Hargreaves catching rabbits which I watch on YouTube – most of the Out of Town and Old Country episodes are there (and I see that the excellent Talking Pictures channel is now showing them).
As Global Majority is the new Ethnic Minority this should mean that Britains are ethnic minorities?
You’d definitely think so from the TV adverts
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“The BBC is to investigate potential “groupthink” in its storylines during a review of how it portrays ethnic minorities and class.”.
And while they’re at it, could someone ensure that the brief of this Groupthink Examination Board be widened, to include some experts familiar with the belief frameworks of some additional minorities? After all, the Holy Grail of our current bunch of wannabe politicians, reflected in much of the content of BBC ‘news’ ‘science’ and ‘medicine’, is utterly reliant on an absolute religious belief in inclusivity, which by definition, should be inclusive of all who hold sincere beliefs in recognised Codes of Ethics. Scientists and medics are distinct groups that come immediately to mind as being improperly excluded from this latest antic.
Or are such inconvenient Codes now excluded on the grounds that they are incompatible with the Codes of the political class and the State? The semi-religious pseudo-science and inverted medical beliefs of the BBC surely constitute one of the most fruitful opportunities for an in-depth inquiry into ‘groupthink’ of this century.
All these lies that were utilised by the influencers to intimidate the masses require brave men and women to push back . It is a difficult response when all around are singing the Sirens Song , but without push back , we are condemned to everlasting stupidity .
We has such a richness of culture in this country for such a small land. All of the different accents and each of those accents represents an entity that chose to come to these islands and became the spirit of the region. There is no way that you can argue that Scousers aren’t driven by their own particular daemon. Of course Liverpool is a very occult city. The Norse influence on Geordie for example. I remember attending a lecture given by an expert in Yorkshire dialect and visiting Norwegian students understood him far better than English people. This is just one example. You shouldn’t throw it away for the sake of money or cheap labour. Maybe it feels good to have cheap nannies or cheap pizza but such things are costly and irreversible.
The BBC is an ultra leftist propaganda machine and is beyond redemption. Anyone who funds it by paying the TV license is part of the problem.
Yes, how do devoutly committed groupthinkers get out of their groupthink and evaluate their attitudes objectively?
Maybe electric shock treatment would help, but after a whole century of thinking that they are the fount of all wisdom and oracle of the ages, the BBC really is beyond redemption. Abolition is the only remedy for this anachronistic and self-regarding institution.
The bloody fools who still pay the TV tax ARE a problem. They, too, are groupthinkers desperately clinging to memories of ‘Auntie Beeb’ as a cosy apple-cheeked old lady, when in fact she morphed into a Marxist Medusa Monster quite a while ago.
Somewhere in the bowels of the BBC building, new job applicants are told to find their way to an interview room down a series of corridors that fork left and right with no signs as to direction. Those that consistently choose to go left arrive in a room with ‘Welcome!’ on the door. Those who choose to go right open a door to the smelly outside bin area and the door automatically locks behind them.
i’m waiting for the occasional letter that gets sent to those who ‘no longer require’ a TV licence asking whether I still don’t need one. I rather enjoy constructing my appropriate reply!
Don’t let it fall apart there is still a chance to pull together as a country.
Tiniest bit of digging into the two ‘media experts’ to lead the ‘review’…
https://order-order.com/2023/07/06/bbc-hides-conflict-of-interest-in-advice-to-ofcom/
https://www.ft.com/content/24fe1010-ca9c-11e5-a8ef-ea66e967dd44
The BBC commented “The group has agreed that groupthink may be a problem within the group, and has therefore appointed two experts on groupthink who the group expects will agree with the groups concern about groupthink. It is very encouraging that the groupthink experts already agree with the group on all matters.”
I don’t watch the BBC, but I’d be interested to know when they decide to present Eastenders as it really is with the former East End white population effectively driven out and stabbings and shootings regularly carried out by various ethnic “minority” gang members.
I very much doubt if it is going to happen any time soon.
“and ensure that its coverage represents all political views” ————-ha ha ha ha ha ha jeez. ———–I nearly spat out my cornflakes and fell off the breakfast bar stool. This is like a leopard promising never to kill an antelope again. Or Farage joining the Green Party. So when does the brainwashing stop? Please do not hold your breath people