I love our police officers, but I'm getting sick to the back teeth of our police forces.
Remember the absurdity of the pandemic – with Derbyshire Police flying drones over the countryside to find people out walking – an old lady arrested for sitting on a bench at the seaside drinking a coffee.
People apprehended for queueing for sandwiches in farmers' markets, people being harassed in supermarkets and on trains for not wearing one of those filthy worthless masks, the policing of a bizarre 10pm curfew in pubs - an utter shambles.
Stupid pandemic policies which have destroyed the country – enforced by gormless cops.
Mark Dolan shares his thoughts on the Metropolitan Police 'failing Britain'
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What about the pathetic spectacle of police officers in Wakefield West Yorkshire, sat there at a hastily assembled press conference, where local clerics berated an autistic child for accidentally scuffing a copy of the Quran.
The officers sat there, nodding like the Churchill dog, lending credence to what was a ridiculous kangaroo court, and the enforcement of a blasphemy law by the back door.
What about cops asking Insulate Britain nut jobs whether they'd like a cup of tea or a sandwich after they've glued their hands to a motorway.
Or dancing on the street with Extinction Rebellion protesters, whose only real aim is the extinction of the British economy and our way of life.
These are the same forces that have wasted thousands of pounds on those absurd rainbow painted cop cars and raided peoples homes for hurty Tweets and unkind Facebook posts.
The officers are doing their best. It's a national scandal that while so much focus is on doctors and nurses pay, our bobbies on the beat have been under-remunerated for two decades. If I was in charge, I would pay coppers far more. But I would also completely change the culture of policing, and heads would roll at the top.
Like Sir Mark Rowley, the ineffectual Met Police Chief, who has presided over those alleged peace marches, which have made Jewish people in Britain afraid to leave their homes, and where hateful chants - including calls for an intifada – which means suicide bombers on public transport and in shops – have been allowed to run amok.
And if it was possible, yesterday we saw an even lower point for British policing with an Iranian man called Niyak Ghorbani, now living in the UK, arrested for the great crime of waving a placard which read “Hamas are terrorists”.
Calling Hamas terrorists is hardly a controversial view – unless you work for the BBC of course. Hamas are a prescribed terror organisation according to the UK government, but hold up a sign that says that in central London, and you will have your collar felt.
Now the argument from the police is that this guy was agitating the crowd. But let me suggest that if saying that “Hamas are terrorists” would agitate the crowd, surely it is the crowd that you should be worried about, not this anti-Hamas protester who was manhandled and injured. Take a look at that nasty cut on his leg, poor bloke.This guy who did nothing wrong, was later de-arrested, whatever that means. Is that like when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris martin consciously uncoupled?
Now those numpties at the Met Police offered a mealymouthed statement. Here it is:
“A video has been posted on X alleging officers arrested a man for having an anti-Hamas placard. This isn’t accurate. He was arrested after an altercation was ongoing, and officers intervened to prevent a breach of the peace. He was arrested for assault. Officers then fully reviewed the footage of the incident, and he was later de-arrested. The arrest was not made in relation to the placard.”
This is a national scandal. Extremism has been allowed to proliferate on Britain's streets, in the name of peaceful protest. If Jews are afraid to leave their house – the protest is not peaceful. If MPs are afraid to vote a certain way in a House of Commons division, for fear of violent reprisals - which is what Sir Keir Starmer reportedly told the speaker of the house – the protests are not peaceful.
If you can project the words “from the river to the sea”, which to anyone with half a brain means eliminate Israel – onto our great national monument of Big Ben, these protests are not peaceful. In fact, they are against the law – so why aren't the police enforcing it?
And it’s happened again. Met Police officers stopped and harassed a Jewish man holding a “for Israel against antisemitism” sign. Why is he being manhandled? And why is a message against antisemitism upsetting those on the so-called peace march? I will allow you to make your own conclusions.
We have the best police women and men in the world, but the culture and leadership of our police forces is failing British law, failing British values and failing British democracy. The Met Police were once branded institutionally racist. Now they're just institutionally useless.