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Wile E. Coyote


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Funny old world, isn't it, Louise. Back in the old days.

Ms Casey, the head of the antisocial behaviour unit and a former homelessness campaigner, sparked consternation in Whitehall earlier this month when she used the speech at a conference organised by the Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers to praise binge drinking, threatened to "deck" Downing Street officials and boasted how she liked to get "hammered".
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Oh. I stand corrected.
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Wile E. Coyote


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This is the type of thing we need to stamp out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBP4X12TV1Y

No, hang on, changed my mind, we need more of the above. If not we are going to soon become like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombings_in_Sweden
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The below is the latest data relating to the Metropolitan Police service Gang Violence Matrix (GVM).

The below shows the Offender RAG (Red, Amber, Green) scoring breakdown of those on the GVM:
Red – 99
Amber – 524
Green – 1189

Ethnicity Breakdown
White – 210
Black – 1411
Asian – 106
Other – 45
Not Recorded – 40

You can send all your officers on diversity courses (nothing wong with that, they can learn about poverty, poor housing and discrimination) but if you were a chief officer in London, trying to actually stop gang crime, where would you target your limited resources? It's surely going to be on catching the people on the list. And when you do, you are going to be accused of institutional racism.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/09/uk-accused-flouting-human-rights-racialised-war-gangs
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Yes, but identifying the problem is not enough. You have to factor in that you are not allowed to identify the problem. This is where both sides go wrong -- they are so busy excoriating the other side they forget about the problem. Actually both sides think the other side is the problem.

* If only we didn't have racism, the breakdown wouldn't be 200 whites for every 1600 non-whites.
* If only we didn't have liberal do-gooders, we can make sure it wouldn't be 200 whites for every 1600 non-whites.
* Me, I say "Those figures are immutable in the short run whatever you do. They'll improve with time whatever you do do, including doing nothing at all. Probably."

You may remember my proposal to pay people some small but welcome sum if they have been stopped by the police in error. Of course it is not 'in error', it is just a form of policing (based on profiling) that is necessary in big cities (and on fast roads) that has built-in error. You don't have to mention race, you only have to be aware that the police stop young black males disproportionately and young black males will quite like getting fifty quid (or whatever it is) and will stop bitching about the police profiling young black males. Which, as your figures show, the police are quite entitled to do without being accused of racism. Though they are disproportionately racist.

Assume for a moment that this scheme would deliver up wondrous results. Can you imagine either side permitting it? I can't.
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Mick Harper wrote:
Yes, but identifying the problem is not enough. You have to factor in that you are not allowed to identify the problem.


Not sure, I suspect it's something along the lines of:

The police were being accused of Dirty Harry type instinctive, racial profiling.

So the police were told to record ethnicity as a mechanism to show that they act fairly to all. (They hate doing this, but heyho it is the modern scientific way and it is what we want)

When the police do this scientific profiling it actually shows an inconvenient truth: the Dirty Harrys were right, all along. The Harrys were actually getting better results for a reason, by racially profiling.

A culture of distrust now develops within the lower ranks, who are working the streets. It's obvious to them that the problem has in fact actually been identified but, rather than act on this, they get held back, or criticised even more.

The best officers will now leave. The top brass are actually stopping them doing the job. The more that leave the worse the performance will get. It's a spiral downwards. The gangs will take over, the bombs start.
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What you really need is a Mayor who is genuinely concerned about crime rather than, err, responding to headlines, and is asking the police why they can't take these serious offenders/former offenders off the streets, and how he can use his influence to help.

Gang Violence Matrix (GVM), offenders on RAG (Red, Amber, Green)

Red – 99
Amber – 524
Green – 1189
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Despite the near universal agreement that it's an important issue, the first installment of the Covid Pandemic Enquiry still hasn't been heard, that is 3 years plus after it hit the UK.

In the meantinme we are focusing our talents on whether BJ should have allowed in some red wine and cake, and had a Birthday gathering. This might or might not make us feel better, depending on our view of BJ, but will it actually save lives, or, for those of a different view, avoid the damaging economic impact of further lockdowns, should a new troubling variant emerge?
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What you really need is a Mayor who is genuinely concerned about crime

For what purpose? Nobody gives a monkeys about crime in London apart from the normal urban fear of getting mugged and/or having your house broken into, and nobody pretends the fear will go away if you have a crimebusting Dick Whittington. Blimey, you'd be reminded about it everyday as the caped crusader roared about town in his pressmobile. What you really need is a mayor who is genuinely concerned to distract attention from urban angst i.e. Boris Johnson. And we may soon have him back if the Privileges Committee manages to work out what everyone over the age of six knows

1. Johnson was completely contemptuous of everyone and everything and broke every Covid rule under the sun.
2. He will have a perfectly good get out for every one of the charges.
3. The whole thing is ludicrous as a reason for regime change.

If he'd had WMDs in the back bedroom and lied about it to Parliament, fair enough.
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The electorate gave Boris Johnson a resounding personal mandate to govern them for five years and a bunch of politically-motivated people in backrooms decided to defy the will of the people. And they weren't even judges!
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As the scholars on Newsnight discussed how many angels can dance on the point of a pin, whether social distancing has to be applied in a work place where it may be impractical and whether by one yard or two, whether a media adviser is an adviser within the meaning intended by ministers answering questions, whether a leaving-do does or does not constitute an essential meeting and whether the consumption of alcohol at that meeting does or does not affect the definition, who was running the country?

This was a point made by a Johnson aficionado. "Surely some latitude is appropriate when you're working twenty hours a day running the country during a pandemic."
"On the contrary, those who make the rules must abide by them. I lost a father during Covid so I should know."
"I lost a mother. Boris nearly lost his life."
"I'm a liberal democrat, this is the first time we've been invited onto Newsnight since Lloyd George."
"He broke the ministerial code by selling honours and having sex on the cabinet room table."
"That's not in the Gray Report. Though I'm sure he did, I've known him for twenty years."
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Meanwhile, over in another corner of the studio, it was Who Rules Scotland? The Christian Fundamentalist is now apparently in the lead by cannily refusing to be interviewed on Newsnight. Avoiding "Will drinking be allowed on the sabbath?" "If you are taking communion."

Humza Yousaf did undergo trial-by-Kirsty and emerged unscathed. In fact came over as rather good. A shame all the ballots are now in so it was a complete waste of time. I'd vote for him if I was Scottish and knew how to put my mark on a ballot paper. If the ballot paper had survived trial by Mr Nicola Sturgeon.

Did you spot the careful ignoral re the ship overturned in an Edinburgh dry dock? Nobody mentioned that, as it had been there since 2020, it must be cheaper keeping boats in Edinburgh dry docks than tied up at the quay. If the SNP are successful the whole of Scotland's infrastructure will be like that one day.
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Humza odds are still shortening.

Humza Yousaf 2/9
Kate Forbes 3/1
Ash Regan 25/1

Wiley's prediction that they would have to call it off. 1000/1

What has changed? Forbes switched position from saying it was unacceptable the way the election was being run, to having total confidence, leaving Ash on her own complaining. The only thing that changed was that Peter Murrell, the huband of Sturgeon, resigned as Chief Executive, over the membership numbers, but he claimed he was having nothing to do with the election. It's all looking like a good old Labour selection meeting for Glasgow East when Labour was the only party. It's a tad Animal Farm.
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Wiley doesn't want to be accussed of Lèse-majesté but, according to the Indy, we should definitely be supporting Forbes as her church, the Free Church of Scotland, belirves in:

“God has appointed the marriage union between one man and one woman and protected it with the Seventh Commandment. ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’ includes the prohibition of ‘sodomy and unnatural lists’.”


Revionist History wrote:
the bogus list
Any time a list of two is encountered it is the revisionist’s bounden duty to find out why.
It being so paltry a list, there is the suspicion that the case is so weak even a list of two is useful.
In practice three is suspect: the third, on inspection, often turns out to be a considerable stretch.
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The last time the 'Wee Frees' (the Free Church of Scotland, not to be confused with the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), the United Free Church of Scotland, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland or the actual Church of Scotland) impinged on British politics was when one of their elders was appointed Lord Chancellor (Minister of Justice as it is now) by Margaret Thatcher.

Lord Mackay of Clashfearn (for it was he) attended the funeral of the Scottish judge Lord John Wheatley as part of his official duties. Alas, there was also a requiem mass and he didn't get out of the church in time "Ya canna attend Catholic masses, ya ken," said the Wee Freers, throwing him bodily from The Elect. "Ye'll just have to shovel anthracite for all eternity in the Halls of Hades."

Kate Forbes is 3/1.
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