Biba Henry & Nicole Smallman were two sisters horrifically killed in a London park in broad daylight. Two Met police officers took pictures of their dead bodies and shared them in a whatsapp group captioning ‘dead birds’. Did any party leader call for ‘cold rage’? Did anyone riot
The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK.
In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this:
‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’
It’s not some woke conspiracy.
If Keir Starmer, Ed Davey or Zack Polanski or even Badenoch took a £5million bung or used the language Farage has twice..
They would be GONE. The media alone would have hounded them out of their job within a week.
There's your two tiers alright.
And it is the media.
He didn’t protest. He didn’t kneel. He stood. And he’s French. I wouldn’t put my hand over my heart for the French anthem. Some of you have let politics rot your brain.
Sick & tired of people being unable comprehend that you can totally decry Farage for inciting violence and rage AND ALSO believe that the murder of Henry Nowak was utterly horrendous and that the police got it very wrong.
These things are NOT mutually exclusive!
I call BS.
The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.
No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.
This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.
Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.
They’d turn their attention to benefit claimants, disabled people, trans people, women and possibly non British white people e.g. Eastern European people. They’d always find a group of people to scapegoat cause they have nothing else.
Names of Black and Brown people who have died at the hands of incompetent police. 👇🏾👇🏾
We’ve been telling you people for decades, now it’s at your door you suddenly gaf!!
Kmt 😮💨
I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…
The speed at which the far-right has mobilized around this tragedy exposes a staggering empathy deficit.
For yrs, when Black communities in the UK called for inquiries into deaths in custody or the disproportionate use of force, the Far right's response was often to scrutinize the victim's past, defend the difficult job of the police, & demand unquestioning respect for law & order.
Now, when faced with a catastrophic police failure affecting a young white man, the immediate response from the right is anti-establishment fury & demands for RADICAL overhaul.
It forces the question: if experiencing just a fraction of the institutional dismissiveness minorities face is this unbearable, why was there such fierce resistance to understanding the minority experience for all these years?
I’m sorry you cannot be a Liverpool fan and talk about the left wing like this after how the right have historically mistreated Liverpool and the North
I have genuinely never understood this. I always go case by case, regardless of nationality. But as a fan of #lfc, I wouldn’t want #mufc to win a throw-in, let alone a European final. I’d expect United fans to feel the same about Liverpool.
There's not a single person in Britain who doesn't agree that the death of Henry Nowak was a tragedy, and the way the police handled it was absolutely disgraceful.
There's only one political party, however, who want to take that family's pain and politicise it for their own benefit.
@SaadAnw1804 Transitioning Liverpool that made the UCL final the previous year? Acting like that Liverpool wasn’t one of the best teams of the generation, lol.
They were literally 1mm off of being invincible centurions that same season, by the way.
I don’t think it’s got anything to do with “modern” football fans.
People have ALWAYS taken joy in others’ misfortune in football, schadenfreude goes hand in hand with tribalism. You don’t have to like it but it’s not a modern shift at all.
Former Wales International, officiated in the Welsh Premier League, WSL, an FA Cup Final, Champions League Final and a World Cup and European Championship.
I think she's more than qualified for a charity football game with Jack Whitehall, Frankie Dettori and Olly Murs playing.