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@thebritpats The Stewardess!

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@PoliticsJOE_UK I wonder who John McDonnell would like as deputy?

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@AntSpeaks @CherylWroteIt

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@jk_rowling J K Rowling you truly are a national treasure ❤

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@libsoftiktok

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@SpencerJJoseph @CherylWroteIt They only object when it's Israeli positive action that offs them. The Sudanese are more than happy to be slaughtered by other Arabs

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@keirwrong Growing......

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@RadioGenoa Fanaticism, they don't hate that

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

This is a Must watch!
British Colonel Richard Kemp obliterates the sick lie that Muslims are being “starved to death by Jews.”

Never trust the BBC or Sky News — they’ve become full-time Hamas PR.

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@basilthegreat Wonderful!

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@darrengrimes When it's news from Gaza comes straight from Hamas, I rather think not

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@Neccccy

[UK Cop Humour @UKCopHumour]

𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐖𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬.

Another day, another police officer dismissed. Not for corruption, violence or misconduct in the usual sense, but for how a sentence was worded on a form.
Sergeant Tim Perrin, a highly respected officer with more than twenty years’ service in Devon and Cornwall Police, was dismissed without notice last month following a disciplinary panel that found his written explanation on a speeding exemption form was “misleading”.

This was not a case of an officer trying to get out of a ticket and being caught red-handed. He was driving at 48mph in a 30 zone, in his personal vehicle, while responding to reports of a disorder and going to assist colleagues at Charles Cross Custody Centre in Plymouth on 20 August 2023. He submitted a formal exemption request, explaining the context. That request was denied. He accepted the outcome, paid the fine, and assumed the matter was over.
But the force later launched misconduct proceedings on the grounds that the wording of his explanation was not sufficiently accurate. There is no suggestion he lied, nor that the event didn’t happen. It came down to interpretation.

He was dismissed without notice for gross misconduct.

𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫

It is difficult not to draw parallels with the recent dismissal of Police Constable Lorne Castle from Dorset Police. Another long-serving officer with a history of bravery and awards, who was removed from the job after a disciplinary panel decided the force he used during the arrest of a violent teenager was excessive, and that he had failed to show the subject “courtesy and respect”.

The teenager in question had just assaulted an elderly man and a child, and a double-ended knife fell from his waistband during the arrest. There was no complaint made against Castle, and his actions may well have prevented further harm. But his career was ended after the incident was reviewed, in hindsight, by a panel applying textbook definitions of what “reasonable” should look like.

In both cases, two officers with decades of service were dismissed. Not because they posed a danger to the public, or because they lied, or brought shame to the profession. But because, in the eyes of their organisations, the standards expected of them were not met to the letter.

It is hard to ignore the similarity. Both men acted in situations involving real public risk. Both made decisions in the moment that are now being judged months later through a procedural lens. And both have been permanently removed from service, not because of who they are, but because of how their actions or wording were interpreted.

𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐈𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐨 𝐈𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

Let’s be clear. No one is saying police officers shouldn’t be held to account. Public trust relies on high standards, and the vast majority of officers agree with that. But when disciplinary processes begin punishing wording, tone or interpretation — particularly where no intent to deceive or cause harm is evident — then something is going badly wrong.

Dismissal is supposed to be the last resort. It’s meant for serious breaches, or clear dishonesty, or repeated failures. Not a single form. Not a decision made in the middle of a shift to help colleagues during a live incident. Not for doing the job and then phrasing something imperfectly.

Tim Perrin didn’t deny what happened. He paid the fine. His wording didn’t meet the panel’s standard, and that has now cost him his career.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝?

This is the part that should worry everyone.

Because if even long-serving, decorated officers can be sacked over form-filling or on-the-spot decisions reviewed months later by people with the benefit of hindsight, then who would want to step forward? Who would volunteer to help during an incident while off duty? Who would risk acting first, if the paperwork will be used against them later?

As one officer put it, reacting to Perrin’s case:
“If this is the bar for dismissal, no one is safe. We’re being judged on semantics rather than service.”

They’re not wrong.

𝐒𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲

𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞?

Because that’s what it looks like.

These aren’t bad apples being rooted out. These are experienced officers, highly commended and publicly supported, who now find themselves without a job, without a pension, and without any clear path back.
Meanwhile, the public sees the disconnect. They can tell the difference between an officer who’s abusing their powers and one who just got caught out by procedure. And they’re starting to ask the same thing:
Who exactly are we protecting with decisions like these?

Because it certainly doesn’t feel like it’s the public.

Stay safe out there and look out for each other.

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@GBNEWS As the Russians say "The fish rots from the head"

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@iamyesyouareno You won't see this in the news. If the victims are white, they don't matter

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A white cross is placed for every farm murder of a white farmer / boer that is committed in South Africa.

This resembles genocide.

[Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott]

🛑OUTRAGEOUS: "Ethnic minority" offenders are to be given special treatment by the courts. This is OFFICIAL. What has happened to our country? How can this be right? Why are the rest of us now second and third class citizens??‼️

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@GuidoFawkes I mean, how ungrateful of the British public to criticise someone who supported an avowed enemy of the British public

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Trump roasted. Timeline cleaner after a week of Kremlin talking points. Imagine being the President of the US with the richest man on earth as your pet - and you still shit your bed every night. 🤣

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

SNL does the Zelensky - Trump meeting.

Hilarious.