Not wishing to run the risk of a knock on the door to find Plod standing there making enquiries having been accused of a non-crime hate incident (NCHI) I am mindful of my pronouns (although tongue in cheek, of course, as it’s grossly ludicrous why I should be).
My outrage and offence, yes that’s right OFFENCE, has been caused by an article in the Telegraph today written by a fellow journo, Allison Pearson, accused of a NCHI as a result of a tweet posted a year ago. This was outrageous and offensive for 2 very good reasons.
She was imposed upon on Remembrance Sunday and notified of a complaint about something she had said a year previously. Are you bleeping serious?
Ms Pearson was called to the front door of her home at 9:40 am on Remembrance Sunday just as she was preparing to attend the local town annual parade organized for the occasion. Called to the door by her husband she apologised the two coppers standing there for her dressing gown and slippers, politely asking why it was they were there.
She writes: “I was accused of a non-crime hate incident. It was to do with something I had posted on X a year ago. A YEAR ago? Yes. Stirring up racial hatred apparently.”
When asked what she had allegedly said in the tweet, the officer said he was not allowed to disclose that. Although at this time last year, she regularly posted comments about the October 7 attacks on Israel and the controversial pro-Palestinian protests on the streets of London.
Topical, relevant, and all legitimately worthy of comment which in her capacity as an award-winning journalist she was fully entitled to make. Allison Pearson knows from experience, as we all do, where the boundaries are and certainly where they should be. Any suggestion that she crossed a red line is an affront to her integrity as a seasoned and accredited news reporter.
Plod also refused to reveal the accuser’s name. Ms Pearson recounted the officer’s words… “It’s not the accuser,’ the constable said, glancing at his notebook. “They’re called the victim.”
You must be bleeping joking? Essex Police confirmed on Tuesday night that officers had opened an investigation under section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986 relating to material allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.
A spokesman said: “We’re investigating a report passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed”.
As part of their investigation … “officers attended an address on Sunday November 10 to invite a woman to attend a voluntary interview on the matter.” Police sources have also indicated that this “incident” was being treated as a “criminal matter” rather than a straightforward NCHI.
All this cobblers comes in the wake of an intense debate over the policing of protests and how forces should deal with alleged hate speech. Remember that pro-Palestinian protesting clown who goose stepped past a group of pro-Israel demonstrators complete with a Nazi salute?
And get this, it was filmed too, AND plod was there in force and did nothing! Earlier this year a police officer identified someone as “clearly Jewish” attempting to exercise his right of freedom of movement Plod stopped him on the grounds of not wanting to “intimidate” Palestinian protestors passing nearby. And now this.
Applying double standards is not exclusively, however, Plod’s domain. Large swathes of the parliamentary Labour Party, including Two-Tier and almost the entire cabinet have accepted expensive gratuities whilst thumbing their noses at the rest of us.
Not many of this lot have been shy about availing themselves of heating allowances this winter on their second homes either whilst they show such wilful disdain for our pensioners.
Why, even yesterday we witnessed John McTernan, who was Tony Blair’s political secretary, advising the Chancellor not to budge on her inheritance tax raid on agricultural land. This horrible individual said Labour “don’t need small farmers”.
Changes announced by Rachel Reeves last month will see farming assets worth more than £1 million clobbered for 20 per cent inheritance tax from next year. “If the farmers want to go on the streets, we can do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners,” Mr McTernan told GB News….
“It’s an industry we can do without. If people are so upset that they want to go on the streets and spread slurry, then we don’t need small farmers.”
Even Yvette Cooper wants to roll back the changes Suella Braverman made as home secretary perpetuating this crass rubbish.
When will these people running government wake up and realise that all we want are safe streets, the migrant invasion to stop, and basically do the job that police are primarily there to do.
Godspeed, Allison Pearson and I really wish you well with a battery of lawyers in your corner to give these woke cretins a monumental legal hiding.
