For a whole plethora of reasons I’ve not been the greatest fan of London’s Metropolitan Police. This force has so often been the epitome of what has gone wrong with policing in Britain and on numerous occasions. The Met has demonstrated a willingness to engage in biased application of the law, have an obsession with ‘hate speech’ and clearly has a willingness to sign up to every lunatic ideology going whether it be punishing ‘Islamophobia’ or supporting ‘trans rights’.
But like a stopped analogue clock that tells the correct time twice every day, occasionally, very occasionally the Metropolitan Police get something very right.
What they’ve got right (at last) is giving a bunch of aggressive ‘Palestine’ supporters the pushback and the kicking that they have long deserved. What we saw from the Met was the sort of policing that should have been deployed against the ‘Palestine’ supporting nutters from day one of this current outbreak of Israel and Jew hating lunacy which started on October 8th 2023. Whilst the right to protest should be protected it’s clear to even the most dense among Britons that these ‘Palestine’ supporters have had plenty of opportunity to exercise their right to protest but have taken it far too far. The ‘Palestine’ supporters not just from the soon to be banned ‘Palestine Action’ group but all of the pro-’Palestine’ groups have turned large tracts of central London into a no go area for both Londoners and visitors to London.
It’s very obvious that up until now the Metropolitan Police has been more than willing to operated a ‘soft hats’ approach to the ‘Palestine’ marchers by which I mean policing without riot shields and helmets, no snatch squads, no aggressive containment of demonstrators. We see this sort of aggressive policing at nearly every patriot demonstration in London but have rarely up to now seen this robust policing deployed against what I call the ‘Pally-wankers’. The Met over the last few years have had few scruples about nicking for example counter Islam demonstrators who shout out ‘Mohammed was a paedo’ but didn’t do anything similar when the ‘Palestine’ demonstrators were calling for the murder of Israelis and harassing London’s Jews. This is not equitable or impartial policing it is the sort of policing that has rapidly lost the trust of the general public. The reasons for this decline in impartiality are many but two of them might be because the Met is mired in a public sector culture that panders to Moslems and Islamic causes and has been hopelessly politicised by London senior police and political leadership.
This new approach to the ‘Palestine’ protestors, which in my view contain some of the worst people and who support some of the worst causes on the planet, is welcome. However it will not make me turn around my critical view of the Met and its failures as I’ve had too much negative personal experience of the Met and read too many stories of the Met’s incompetence and bias to go all-in with fulsome praise for the Met. The decision by the Met to go in hard with the Pally-wankers is good but there’s an incredibly long way to go before the Met regain the trust of both myself and others.
However after seeing the Met let off the leash and into the faces of the Pally-wankers I will at least on this occasion say ‘well done’ to the Met. I have little confidence that the Met will continue to protest the ‘Palestine’ protestors impartially and I also have little confidence that the Met has excised all the various Islamic and Leftist ‘community relations advisors’ that have contributed to the Met’s downfall. But I’ll take the kick back against the ‘Palestine’ protestors as a win, at least on this one occasion.