November 7 2005
The vast bulk of Criminal Law in this country, ie England, is abused, flouted and quite simply not invoked. Oh, I know, with murder, for example, the police have to be shown to be doing something. But that apart, one can basically get away with..... well, almost murder.
If indeed the security services and the Metropolitan Police have asked for this extension, one should take this request with a pinch of salt, or better still totally ignore it. A man like Blair (the other one) cannot be taken seriously, he has amply demonstrated that; can the police as a whole, I begin to ask myself? Anyone who heard the recorded interview between a member of the public and a policeman on the occasion of the bomb in Cavendish Square must be feeling very worried. That policeman should not be answering any calls from the public. I am not sure what he should be doing. The test for Police recruits, recently published, shocked me even more. I mean, this is a test I would have expected my children to pass with flying colours - when aged 10 -12.
The problem is the standard of police recruits. and that of security service personel, is not what it used to be; not what it used to be not that many years ago. How can it be! These people are part of a semi-literate culture now pervading this country and it is self generating. Those of that stature and in relative positions of power and influence will employ others of even less wit and ability than themselves. It is self-perpetuating. Where does that leave us ? IN TROUBLE!
Postscript
So the Government were defeated. I welcome that. But the opportunity to attack Blair and dig the knife in even deeper was missed by all the opposition. How ineffective they are. That apart, Blair continuously referred to police advice he had apparently been given. What nonsense. What advice? From whom (let us discount his idiot namesake)? He is always right, of course. Like when the man was thrown out of the Labour party conference, the first thing Blair had to say was 'I was not in the building of course!' It's always a matter of - it weren't me, Gov'.Well you idiot, IT HAS BEEN YOU, IT IS YOU, BUT IT WON'T BE FOR VERY MUCH LONER. Then we can give that other idiot Brown a chance.