Twitter was aflame last night with prominent politicians and journalists condemning the Metropolitan Police’s heavy-handed treatment of women gathering on Clapham Common at a vigil to mourn the death of Sarah Everard and calling for the resignation of Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. The irony, of course, is that these are the very same people who’ve enthusiastically supported the lockdowns, including the suspension of the right to protest, and who’ve condemned anti-lockdown protestors for being “selfish” and “irresponsible”.
I’m sorry, but if you didn’t object to the Metropolitan Police’s brutal tactics in dispersing anti-lockdown protestors in Trafalgar Square last September, you cannot condemn their employment of identical tactics last night. Either you defend the right to protest for everyone, or you defend it for no one. You cannot just get worked up about it when it affects those whose cause you approve of.
You cheered when our Government suspended our civil liberties, claiming it was “necessary” to contain a virus that kills 0.25% of those who catch it and which, if you’re under-65, is less deadly than an average bout of seasonal flu. You cheered when our Government continued to pursue its reckless lockdown policy in the face of mounting evidence that it causes more harm than it prevents, destroying hospitality and retail businesses, wreaking havoc with children’s mental health and separating people from their loved ones. You cheered when the tiny handful of people who took to our streets to demonstrate against the suspension of our liberties were led away in handcuffs, branding them “Covid deniers” and “conspiracy theorists”.
This is on you.
This is what an authoritarian state looks like.
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So sad that it’s come under the most awful of circumstances but maybe people might now begin to wake up. The past year has been more about political manouvering than the people’s well being. This is the obscenity of the lockdown cult hitting home big time. Utterly shameful
Unfortunately, I think what might happen is that any criticism by lockdown dissenters of how the Police behaved last night will be spun as callously exploiting the situation of this poor woman’s murder to further our aim. They’ll turn it against us any way they can.
Strange to relate, but the hypocrites all appear to have had hypocrisy awareness by-pass operations. Starmer, for example, whose criticism of the government’s coronavirus responses is that they are not draconian enough, condemns the police for attempting to uphold the Coronavirus Regulations. The lockdownistas appear to be determined to make satire impossible.
Didn’t you know, Steve?, that satire is one of the main causes of spreading the infection, along with love, joy and all the things that make life worth living.
Perhaps now, at last, the eyes of the collaborators and sheep will finally open?
I wouldn’t hold your breath
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I’m not, but where’s there’s life, there’s hope.
Did you not notice how many of the people attending the vigil were wearing face masks?
Dam right! Hopefully this will wake up more people.
Hopefully the beginning of the end for the lockdown and unlawful actions of government.
What gives you that optimism? Every plate of shit handed to the public and labelled ‘food’ has been lapped up so far.
No. It all smells far too contrived.
After this week’s plethora of smoke and mirrors, watch carefully for increased draconianism after this.
Incidentally, Sarah E. was 33 and “disappeared” on the 3rd day of the 3rd month. Just sayin’.
That’s more like it, Toby!
the chickens are coming home to roost
They came home a long time ago.
… and had their necks wrung.
Brilliant post! Agree totally.
Brilliant post, totally agree!
Fascinating to read the various political responses – all about as hypocritical as you can get.
The police shouldn’t be let off the hook. After all, you can walk away from being asked to behave in an unacceptable manner in an unacceptable cause. The Nuremberg trials dished the excuse ‘I was only following orders’. For the dicks like Cressida Dick, who are in charge, there’s not even that wafer-thin cover.
But, in the end, this is a politically contrived event, caused by the intellectually lazy/incompetent failure of the joke of a parliamentary system that has become little more than a greasy pole to be climbed by otherwise rudderless incompetents.
So let’s not give airtime to the fake crocodile tears emanating from that quarter. They had the opportunity to prevent all this.
And failed without trying.
Unfortunately there is no-one holding the ‘hook’. The police are obviously carrying out orders, their ‘masters’ want this and there is no-one to hold them to the fire. The Courts appear to be operating under the same basis, so its useless appealing to them.
They have constructed their fascist totalitarian state with the support of the frightened majority. The longer they hold sway the harder it will be to remove their power.
Even bloodshed will just be met by worse clampdowns. And the public will cheer them on as they celebrate every injection.
The essential problem is neither the ordinary bobby on the beat, nor the judiciary. It’s always misleading to look for simple objects to blame.
If you want to point the finger at individuals (rather than the collective), then you need to go further up the tree. Of course, I could easily blame all the individuals who were dim enough to vote for cuddly ‘Boris’ when it was obvious that he was a dishonest, narcissistic turd of little ability – but the core problem is systemic.
And that ‘system’ is the farce of the UK non-constitution that is a web of myths that, when push comes to shove, gives absolutely no protection to essential communal or individual rights.
What did you expect from the ” Pick and Mix ” classes?
I suppose this is why people joined the police. Its like Christmas every day for them
“Met Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball said hundreds of people were “packed tightly together”, posing a risk of transmitting Covid-19.”
the ignorant cow. its unlikely a single person had covid in the crowd.
“its unlikely a single person had covid in the crowd.”
Exactly – weeks ago, the probability was around 1 in 5000.
But, of course, as just one of the lies circulated by the Mengele Memorial Brigade, that was circulated as ‘1 in 3’.
and even the 1 in 5000 are probably in care homes, in hospital for other reasons and picked it up (or just tested positive there) or are at home feeling a bit fluey
the idea of a few hundred young people together outside is so dangerous the police have to kick the shit out of them is extremist nonsense. the most dangerous thing about last night was the violence of the police and mask wearing
This isn’t really the place to post this, but there’s little alternative.
Just to note that, whilst the ONS has been an outpost of sanity during the shit-show, I’ve just heard the nominal head of it ‘Professor’ Ian Diamond, pronouncing government propaganda about an autumn ‘wave’.
Another greasy pole-climbing academic bites the intellectual dust. There were no balancing observations about the lack of exceptionality in outcomes from this virus – but there was purely hypothetical advertising about the efficacy of vaccines.
Another brick in the wall of the corruption of public life.
Well said, Toby. My thoughts too. Let’s see how this pans out….
Nice critique Toby. Thanks.
A policeman murders a woman. Women come out to hold a silent vigil. The police beat them up and arrest them. It sounds like a report the World Service might do about Guatemala. UK 2021. How far we have fallen
Good post Toby.
As I noted in another thread: The British Government’s response to covid-19 may be compared to imbeciles trying to micromanage a skip fire.
Where, exactly, does Cressida Dick and the police service in general get off proclaiming their expertise in public health, or the transmissibility of viral disease in an outside environment? What evidence does Dick rely upon in her decision to attack peaceful people assembling outdoors? What science is she relying upon when she decrees that people less than (some unstated) distance apart, outside, are a threat to public health?
The answer, of course, is NONE.
Literally, a pox on all their houses. I just wish that pox had a somewhat greater mortality of that of covid-19.
The ginger one is an actress, apparently: https://www.truenewshub.com/politicalite/exclusive-woman-pinned-to-ground-at-everand-vigil-is-an-actress-with-a-casting-profile/
I’ve noticed that, in one or two of the photographs, she’s gazing nicely into the camera.