Journalism at it's worst

[Oldbillplod]

How papers can lawfully print this rubbish is beyond me :confused:

Wednesday was Burglars' Holiday, courtesy of the massed ranks of police officers who took the day off to invade Westminster.

More than 20,000 coppers wearing silly white baseball caps deserted the thick blue line to protest about being given a pay rise.

I wonder who was protecting us while they exercised their unlawful right to hold a one-day strike in the capital. Their law-abiding mates, I suppose.

This work stoppage must have been illegal because it can't be true that every one of the 25,000 protesters took a legitimate day off.

And they are forbidden by statute to strike. The Manchester force alone sent 950 officers to London. Yet police chiefs are always moaning they are undermanned.

The opposite is plainly true. I suppose the protesters will make up any lost dosh in overtime. The average copper makes £2,900 a year that way, at an annual cost to the nation of £440million.

That's on top of their salaries, which go up by around a thousand quid every year, on top of the 2.5 per cent rise that upset them so much. There comes a point when we have to say "enough is enough", and they should calm down and accept they cannot have everything they want.

That point has now been reached. Most workers would envy the policeman's salary, his fat, index-linked pension, his early retirement and his generous sick pay and his immunity from prosecution when he shoots dead a mildly inebriated Scotsman for the crime of carrying a chair leg in a public place.

The same police who demand the right to lock up people for 42 days without charge, and possibly without even saying what they are supposed to have done. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the politician who says cops can't have their cash, is still willing to believe police chiefs need SIX WEEKS to interview suspects.

This business of unelected police bosses telling the elected government what its policies should be has to stop. And the place to stop it is the House of Commons, where MPs are being asked - no, told - to back new detention laws.

Aside from the merits of the case, it's good for governments to be defeated occasionally. Taking ministers down a peg or two does wonders for their egos. But this time it would be sound policy too.

Tony Blair tried to keep suspects detained for 90 days, and had to settle for 28. MPs should keep it at that - if only to put the impertinent police in their place.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columni...9520-20297202/

[WellAdvised]

If you repeat a lie enough it will be believed. His utter contempt for our role is evident. Karma will prevail. I just hope I am there to see it.

[Adamantine]

If you repeat a lie enough it will be believed. His utter contempt for our role is evident. Karma will prevail. I just hope I am there to see it.

may your words become truth! I still have family over there; aunts, uncles and cousins... So I tend to pay attention to news like this. What an idiotic bunch of drivel to post, writen by someone who is essentially clueless...

[magicman]

Quote: "Most workers would envy the policeman's salary, his fat, index-linked pension, his early retirement and his generous sick pay and his immunity from prosecution when he shoots dead a mildly inebriated Scotsman for the crime of carrying a chair leg in a public place."

I wish this guy would say how he really felt. :rolleyes: What an a$$hat. Hope you guys get what you deserve and bravo for standing up for it.

[Wombat311]

Surely that's not in a mainstream paper?? Or is it some knobjockey's editorial?

That's disgraceful reporting.