Like a flash of lightning that has suddenly illuminated the devastating nature of British policing to the general public, the Henry Nowak case will hopefully mark the beginning of an honest appraisal of the remaining law enforcement in this country. Beyond the wickedness of adopting racially divisive guidelines and hostile staff ‘networks’ within the police, the question I ask in deadly seriousness is whether there has been a deliberate policy decision for police not to enforce the law. Is it possible the police’s decades long inability to prevent, stop or prosecute crime is wilful, not the accidental result of poor guidelines and leadership?
While the Henry Nowak case was being reluctantly revealed by Hampshire Constabulary (my local force) I read London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe. I commend it to Daily Sceptic readers. It concerns the death of Zac Brettler, who posed as the son of a Russian oligarch and fell to his death in 2019 from a luxury apartment after becoming embroiled with gangsters and career criminals. The book follows his family’s attempts to find out what happened in the face of half-hearted police investigation. It is carefully and concisely written and reveals a world of institutional police timidity when confronted with organised crime.
Keefe’s remarks about the Met police bear repeating:
Though it still enjoyed a reputation for competence, owing to its long history as one of the most famous police forces in the world, the truth was that Scotland Yard was severely underfunded. Half of the
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As this article and many of the comments illustrate, there is no substitute for feet on the ground and first hand observation of what is going on. I think most of us are able to do it, but not, apparently our law enforcement and tax authorities.
Since you mention (probably illegal) vape shops…
Another possibility is that obvious, widespread lawbreaking provides fertile political ground for numerous (very selective, of course) Government Crackdowns, Getting Tough On X, Banning Y.
Actually enforcing the law, deterring the low-level lawbreaking would cost time and money, and wouldn’t feed Tough New Laws or give politicians a chance at some hero-posing.
Guy at my local (legit) vape shop told me that one reason the UK is flooded with illegal (I mean, illegal as in “was always illegal, since 15 years ago”, not “illegal under whatever bonkers rules Streeting has/will come up with”) vapes is that Government can’t be arsed to properly fund Customs inspections at ports.
I’m unable to give details, but from personal experience know that the high-level operations of the Met are subject to political interference. When a party connected to the Government of a “friendly” country was implicated in the murder of a British citizen, the Met tried to frame a low-ranking innocent party. Thankfully they didn’t succeed, but the connected party and his associates escaped justice.
Joanna I assume you’re referring to the Portswood / Bevois Valley area , it’s actually worse than your description, you failed to mention the drug dealers, junkies, beggars and muggers who add much needed colour and vibrancy to the area . The only police to be seen are those attending the protests occurring at the local hotel , the Highfield House( which has been used exclusively by young non paying third world guests for the last two years) .Anyway great article, visit Shirley High Street, I now have a choice of 15 Turkish Barbers , I never have to wait long as none of them seem to have any other customers.
It was amusing to see our local empty Turkish barber shops suddenly full of Middle Eastern looking blokes having a daily trim after the authorities were talking about money laundering investigations.
Yes, they may have “customers” sitting in the chairs, but like the “Steve, you are go on first customer” that introduces the C4 F1 coverage, no hair is cut and there’s no sweeping up afterwards.
It’s all very clear to me since I read Hampshire Constabulary’s Race Action Plan. When they can the police prefer to just ignore the illegal activities of their favoured “communities” i.e. races.
That, or simple anarchontyranny, the law in the UK and Europe.is clearly only for the law abiding, those who ignore what used to be civilisation are free to do whatever the F they want, evidenced by rape gangs, pikey camps, dodgy shops, and all the cars parked all over every sidewalk outside the shops peddling foreign middle Eastern crap in the middle of what used to be civilised high streets.
“… eight mobile phone shops, four pawn shops, four nail bars, three vape shops, two candy stores and numerous Turkish and Kurdish barbers.”
I wonder how many of these paid income tax on their earnings. Few if any, I suspect. When I worked for the Inland Revenue 30 years ago there was a tax office in every town, part of whose function was to ensure compliance of small businesses at a local level – and this involved scouting, not simply writing letters to accountants. Then the Revenue centralised its operation. Local offices were closed down and all functions concentrated in big offices in big cities. As a consequence, compliance as it affected small retail businesses, market traders, electricians, plumbers and so on was abandoned.
There is a huge black economy out there. Part of its growth has to do with the growth in the non-white population, migrating from cultures that have only a weak culture of paying to Caesar what is due. The Revenue found it too messy and difficult to deal with the challenges posed by this social revolution: one reason, apart from false notions of efficiency, why it staked everything on computer systems, self-assessment and nit-picking inquiries… Read more »
I live in a very small, rural market town, we have 2 Turkish Barbers within a couple of hundreds of yards of each other, there is a regular appearance of a man in an very expensive top of the range BMW who visits the shop and does not fit the usual profile of a rural dweller, the two barbers are usually empty of customers.
I suspect the shops are fronts for money laundering, and other non legal activities, but I guess the owners pay business rates, and other taxes, and so the councils and the police turn a blind eye. 5 miles away there is a another market town again with Turkish barbers, vape shops, again rarely a customer inside. I think this is a pattern seen all over the UK and for which no investigation is carried out. Tax receipts at any expense to the working citizen it seems
A government constantly looking for new sources of tax revenue to give away? Spend money on policing money-laundering enterprises or take their business rates, income tax and NI?
Yep, that’s the nub of it.
These money laundering enterprises are model taxpayers, as they don’t want to be investigated. Their taxes and rates are paid in full, on time, every time.
It is estimated that HMRC get about a 40% cut of all money laundered fully into the clean economy. No wonder a blind eye is turned!
The same happens at a small convenience store in my local small west country town. Up he comes in a flashy top of the range car …. when the small store probably takes less than £300 a day.
Couldn’t possibly have the police (or Home Office) raiding the numerous “Turkish Barbers;” vape shops; nail bars; cash-only fast food outlets; convenience stores or hand car washes …. because that would be WAYCIST.
They have carte blanche to carry out their operations unmolested, whether it’s for the state of economy or anything else.
There’s a more likely possibility: because so much of current crime statistics is dominated by immigrants, the police prefer not to enforce the law in the service of “community cohesion” 🙁
100% and allied to that I think simply not wanting to draw attention to the number of illegals here and to the illegal activity of a lot of the businesses. I doubt it is to help the economy. Since Thatcher we’ve had socialist governments and socialists are not interested in helping the economy.
For sure that is a part of it.
I have for some time now been convinced that the disproportionate influnece of London and th City in the UK economy is a) a nexus for organised crime and b) has the effect of keeping sterling unrealistically bouyant which contributes to the disaster playing out in the rest of the economy in proper England ie outside the M25.
Along with net zero, over regulation, over taxation, uncontrolled mass immigration. .
At the end of the day its actually not hard to identify what needs doing to fix the UK, the fact they don’t do it tells us all we need to know.
It’s part of their “culture” so it has to be accepted rather than draw attention to the fact that a large percentage of immigrants are habituated to being criminals long before they arrive here.
It can’t be good for the economy as a lot of the money will end up being sent abroad, either legally in remittances, used to pay smuggling gangs to bring over more illegals or given to “charities” that fund goodness knows what, quite possibly Muslim terrorist groups or radical hate preachers, in various shit holes around the world.
Having all these dodgy businesses rather than loads of empty premises on every high street might give people the impression that the economy is doing better than it actually is.