Graham Linehan arrest: Met Police chief says officers 'in impossible position and should not be policing culture war debates'
Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his officers should not be "policing toxic culture wars debates" as he responded to his force's arrest of Father Ted writer Graham Linehan over anti-trans posts.
It comes hours after health secretary Wes Streeting told Sky News the government needs to look at whether police are "getting the balance right".
Yes Wes, it is a a matter of getting the balance right, but your party, the way it frames every political debate, its core political outlook is unbalanced.
Anyone who isn't unbalanced knows all this and is aware of how essential free speech is as the only way to preserve what has been called the 'market-place of ideas.'
It the core problem, unbalanced political actors and their usefully unbalanced idiots. If you become Prime Minister Wes, and we know you have your eye on the role, then your Labour Party will still be unbalanced.
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The reports of his arrest aren't true. The Five man squad were armed with water pistols, because he was a known comedy writer!
Tammly - it's a good job he didn't have a water pistol too, he'd have lost that one.
And yet *someone* decided that Graham Linehan should be arrested. So either Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley doesn't know what is going on under his command or he is backtracking to soften the PR blow to the police. Not a good look.
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