I have already this morning discussed some of the consequences of the Prime Minister lying. One that I mentioned was that corruption will spread as confidence in the rule is law is undermined.
It is to be regretted that not only us the Prime Minister guilty of promoting this, so too are the Metropolitan Police. They are refusing to investigate the events at Downing Street in December 2020. Their statement is included in the Tweet:
I think they have forgotten their role is to *investigate* crime. We will remind them. https://t.co/cCNvQyNe99
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) December 8, 2021
As the enormously respected Secret Barrister has said:
I can't think of many times in my career as a criminal prosecutor when the police have refused to look for evidence on the basis that they currently don't have enough evidence. https://t.co/XcPXkvyO1V
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) December 8, 2021
We know that the police were enormously heavy-handed when policing these regulations. Many students were faced with heavy fines for trivial offences in university halls of residence. One died running away from the police. But the Met will not look at what happened in Downing Street for two reasons.
One is that they did not collect contemporaneous evidence, which is ridiculous because they are almost never at the scene of any crime, although they did have officers posted outside this one all the time that it was going on.
The other is that it is not their policy to investigate past Covid crimes. The obvious question to ask is since when did police policy over-ride the law?
There is, unfortunately, a very obvious answer to the second question. It is that whenever matters relating to the Conservative party are involved.
There has still been no effective police investigation of the electoral crimes of the leave campaign.
There is no indication that there will be investigation into the mysterious appointment of 16 successive Conservative Party treasurers to the House of Lords.
And now there is this.
When a blind eye is turned to corruption by some as a matter of policy then corruption spreads. It will as a result of this decision by the Met, which appears incomprehensible.
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Speaking as a former police officer, I regret to say the Met appear to be completely corrupt. Of course, when you appoint the former Gold Commander in charge of the operation on the day Jean Charles de Menezes was murdered, what other result would you expect?
Sad to say, the Met is institutionally corrupt, and will remain so until it accepts there is a problem to address, as to its credit it did with institutional racism (which is also far from resolved).
As you say, the rot starts at the top: in addition to her role leading the operation that killed Jean Charles de Menezes, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis was criticised more recently for her obstruction (when an assistant commissioner) of the investigation into the death of Daniel Morgan, which held progress back for several years.
To me this is political failure across the board, including the failure of Parliament as an institution.
All parties have contributed to taking our democracy for granted and not making it more robust. All of them.
It was only ever a matter of time that a Government (Left or Right) came along to exploit its structural weaknesses.
It just so happens to be a right wing one that’s all, enabled by the get rich quick Mistress herself – Margaret Hilda Thatcher.
Now they are working through Government to protect their position and we must all suffer apparently.
Cressida Dick toadying to the Conservative Government – I’m shocked beyond belief……
Another factor in the equation is the media particularly News UK. This led to the leveson inquiry however the second part of the inquiry was cancelled. I suspect that this was a result of lobbying by Murdoch and his agents or servants. There also remains the unsolved murder of the private detective Daniel Morgan. I understand the enquiry touched on this. I don’t think you need to be a conspiracy theorist to deduce that had Leveson Part 2 gone ahead, information would have been revealed that would have made members of News UK senior management uncomfortable to say the least.
Does this behavior influence that of others? I was in an R&D credit meeting recently – the attitude appeared to be not to follow the rules but chances of being caught out by the Revenue. Not has real R&D gone on as per the definitions but what is the largest and apparently proportionate claim they can get in in relation to the size of the business. Their workings were sloppy and full of assumptions that you could take one project and It felt like I was in a meeting with a bunch of sales guys intent on maximizing their commission with out much constraint. The ethical dilemma caused a restless sleep – if it is down to the threat of being caught out and not playing by the rules – what kind of society are we ushering in?
Thanks for having the courage to say this
I am sure that this is commonplace
crime flourishes when not found out.
there is always an absence of proof/full evidence .Detectives go to look for it whether murder , corruption. Logically you can not decide not to look further until you Have already looked . Actually I do not know whether earth is round because the place i live is flat