Protests Descending Into Mob Rule, Rishi Sunak Warns Police

[naomi24]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68429902

 

Right or wrong?

[Deskdiary]

"14 years of the cons chopping the police force to bits..."

 

The Met currently has 34,000 police officers.

 

https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces/metropolitan-police/areas/about-us/about-the-met/structure/#:~:text=Here';s%20how%20our%20personnel%20are,1%2C304%20Police%20community%20support%20officers

 

In 2010 there were 33,000 police officers.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-officer-numbers-sadiq-khan-crime-b966440.html.

[youngmafbog]

Khant sold the ruddy water canon.  You couldnt make it up could you.

 

And when did he decide they were now needed?  Before or after Lee's comments?

[youngmafbog]

//14 years of the cons chopping the police force to bits..."//

Usual left wing sound bite that is totally wrong.

[youngmafbog]

Interesting to see how its straight linked to the Palestian protests but this has been going on for some time now.

Mob rule should never be allowed to happen, whatever "the cause".

But just incase I'm on Amazon looking for pitchforks to round up the Communists.

[Ellipsis]

> Following six weeks of public engagement, the Mayor of London has now announced that he has agreed to support the Metropolitan Police’s call to purchase water cannon to help enhance their response to riots or other serious and exceptional public disorder. The final decision on whether to license the water cannon for use on the UK mainland now rests with the Home Secretary.

That is from 10 years ago ... obviously. The idea that Khan has been thinking about water cannons for the last six weeks, and has decided to go for it, is hilarious. 

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/mayors-office-policing-and-crime/governance-and-decision-making/mopac-consultations/water-cannon

[Deskdiary]

Is Khan really considering water cannon? I took miser's post as being TIC.

[Ellipsis]

Miser's post was copy and pasted from the link I provided above ... from 28 February 2014, 10 years ago almost to the day. After that, in 2015, Theresa May banned water cannons and that's how things still are. She had some sound reasoning ...

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretarys-oral-statement-on-water-cannon

[miser]

She had some sound reasoning ...

Yes, I see your point - bashing someone on the head with a baton is kinder than getting them a bit wet.