Josh's joshings 'The buck starts here' Josh |
|
"The finest and most perceptive blog in the entire Universe" - Jayson (not Tony) Blair Email me * A. Pedant Big boys (& girls) British Journalism Review* The Guardian* Melbourne Age* Worth a look Charlie's Diary* The Feral Eye* Green fairy* I live on your visits* Jak - Vancouver* Junius* Quantum Tea* Reflections in D minor*
/small> A. Pedant |
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Reflections on the Conservative Party Conference Today, at the Con Party conference, David Davis advanced the old ill thought out lines about having more prisons, tougher sentences, and more policemen. Not a word do we hear about the quality of the police. You can read the speech in full, here. Perhaps, though, before you do that, you should read these other items. Last November, a woman was shot dead by her estranged husband despite having earlier called urgently for the police. They did not arrive for nearly forty minutes and they did not enter the house for another five hours although they had been assured that the gunman had long since fled. It is quite possible that prompter action would have saved one or two lives - there were two critically injured women in the house. A recent inquest report begins: The family of a mother and son shot dead by the woman's estranged husband yesterday claimed police failed to offer her adequate protection even after she expressed fears that he would kill her.You can read the report on the inquest here. Right from the start, it’s obvious that our friends in blue weren’t properly on the case. Today, the police have reported on their reaction to the events of that tragic November 18th. Basically, they say: ‘Oops’. Have heads rolled? Bloody hell, no. Here's a more detailed explanation of that 'Oops', including a police apology. Here is another story dredged from Josh’s joshings, dated 31 August 2002: Several years ago, a musician left his car outside his house for half an hour. In it were several valuable and unusual instruments. When he came out, the car had been broken into and the instruments were gone. Naturally, he informed the police, giving them detailed descriptions of what was missing.I understand that cardboard cut-outs of policemen were used as a crime deterrent in France, some years ago. If, instead of saying that the Cons would employ 40,000 more police, David Davis could, with advantage have suggested ‘employing’ 40,000 cardboard cut-outs: they’d be no less effective and a lot cheaper. Isn’t saving tax-payers’ money a central plank of Con thinking? Hypocrites!
Comments:
Post a Comment
|