Braverman accuses Met of bias over marches

[Nearly Sane]

What is happening in Gaza is too important for this claim by Braverman to distract from it directly. This is Trumpian in tharbit posits that the govt is fighting a continual battle against a dark state.

It's also just the latest in Braverman carrying on her campaign to be leader of the Tory party by burning it down.

Politics is in a dark place.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67364745

[Aruntraveller]

Not often I get to share the front of the Daily Star, but these are the strangest of times:

[ProfessorDavey]

The lack of perspective is gob-smacking. Braverman seems to think that right wing causes are ferociously policed yet 'woke'/left wing causes are given free rein.

Yet in terms of policing protests two of the most high profile recent cases where the met got into all sorts of issues over heavy handling of protests have been:

1. Policing of women's rights issues following the murder of Sarah Everard
2. Policing of anti-monarchy protests on the day of the coronation

Neither are remotely right wing causes.

[SteveH]

The lack of perspective is gob-smacking. Braverman seems to think that right wing causes are ferociously policed yet 'woke'/left wing causes are given free rein.

Yet in terms of policing protests two of the most high profile recent cases where the met got into all sorts of issues over heavy handling of protests have been:

1. Policing of women's rights issues following the murder of Sarah Everard
2. Policing of anti-monarchy protests on the day of the coronation

Neither are remotely right wing causes.

Neither was the notorious anti-BNP march in Welling in 1993, which I went on. The policing was appalling: we weren't allowed to turn right to go past the BNP's headquarters, nor left into a park, so we were bottled up, and some hot-heads at the front of the column turned violent (not me!).

[ProfessorDavey]

Neither was the notorious anti-BNP march in Welling in 1993, which I went on. The policing was appalling: we weren't allowed to turn right to go past the BNP's headquarters, nor left into a park, so we were bottled up, and some hot-heads at the front of the column turned violent (not me!).

That's right, but I wasn't really going that far back. But if we want to head back into history I remember significant criticism of the different policing of the Stop the War Coalition protests and the Countryside Alliance protests that were both occurring within months of each other.

And despite Braverman's claims that BLM protests were treated with kid gloves, other opinions are available!!

https://netpol.org/black-lives-matter/