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.
In the ongoing financial scandal involving the Deputy Prime Minister: she went to court with a request that confidentiality be waived on a particular family matter and won! How's that for an accommodating judge? Yet Sir Cur denies that we get two-tier justice. Try putting a "far right" figure before the courts and see how that goes.
DJ - it isn't easy to know what Sir Mark Rowley knew about it, but presumably someone below him lacked the confidence to use a little discretion, so it still goes back to Rowley.
dearieme - yes, a "far right" figure has no chance and Sir Cur must know it. He shelters behind legal screens we aren't supposed to know exist.
@Dearieme - how badly did the NHS fuck up that Rayner had to fight a court case to tell the public that her child was injured by them?
I know nothing about the case. I dare say that as Rayner waxed in political prominence the NHS's incentive to deny her the money waned. But that's just speculation.
The whole business does cast an interesting light on her much touted admiration for the NHS. Was she simply lying? Did she think first hand experience counts for nothing? What a twister!
Another question. Did the judge's decision allow the whole case to become public knowledge or was it restricted to allowing La Rayner to publicise only aspects of the case that suited her?
Anon and dearieme - I know nothing about the case either, but her supposed admiration for the NHS does seem to be wholly political. She clearly understands that the game she plays is wholly personal and political, nothing to do with the lives of voters.
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