@bluenobby She joined as a direct supt in 2016.. shows the scheme was rubbish.. but what about the PCC in all this? He’s being paid a fortune to run policing and appoint the Chief but suddenly it’s appears to be nothing to do with him !!!!
To the father at the farmers market who pointed at my Rottweiler today and told his little boy, “Stay back. Those dogs can turn on you.” You saw her size. You saw the heavy scar across her face. But you didn’t see the lives she saved. Her name is Sadie, and she spent six long years working beside my husband on an urban search-and-rescue team. She didn’t learn gentleness in a clean backyard; she forged it in the absolute dark of human disasters. When a violent tornado destroyed an elementary school, Sadie crawled beneath shifting, unstable concrete debris. She refused to move, barking until firefighters began digging and found two small children trapped underneath. Both were still alive because she refused to give up on them. Years later, an apartment building collapsed after a gas explosion. Shattered glass cut Sadie’s face as she searched through the burning wreckage, but she kept working through the pain until she located an elderly woman buried beneath a staircase. That scar you noticed on her muzzle today wasn’t left by a vicious fight. It is the permanent mark of her devotion to us. She is retired now. Her joints are slower, and her face is graying, but her protective soul remains absolute. I don’t know how many more seasons I’ll have with her, but I know she spent her entire life protecting strangers who will never know her name. We don’t need a flawless appearance to be worthy of love. Sometimes, the most beautiful hearts carry the deepest scars. If Sadie’s legacy touched your heart, save this post and share it to your Stories to honor the senior heroes who gave everything for us.
@DeesPhilli48949@junosmith7@TheJellyMan@naughty_mentor@kat__writes No venom or bile from me but I think there’s a time and place for some thoughts.. you’re entitled to your view, even if I don’t agree, but think sometimes keeping one’s counsel in situation is the better option…
@DovForman@metpoliceuk@metpoliceuk as I commented earlier.. you are completely complicit in the national perception of ‘two tier policing’ in this country…
Angela Rayner’s new policy on ‘Empty Dwelling Management Orders’ is one of the most outrageous, authoritarian overreaches by a British government ever.
It gives the state the power to confiscate private property if left unoccupied for six months.
It is literally legalised theft and yet the left-wing media luvvies lapped up her party conference speech and let it slip by without so much as a whimper of protest. When people realise how pernicious Rayner’s ‘Empty Dwelling Management Orders’ are, the inevitable outcry will be too late.
First and foremost, it will be the state that decides if your house is ripe for confiscation. The local council will deploy ‘Empty Homes Officers’, for which there is about to be a recruitment drive, who will spy on your property. These state snoops will visit your property, check your mail, take photos of your house and obtain your water and energy usage. Armed with this information, like some second-rate private investigator, build a case on whether you’ve been living there.
Then when the state seizes your property and rents it out, who gets the payments? You guessed it, it goes directly to the local council. And they get to decide if they want to use the rent for repairs, building works and any health-and-safety upgrades to make the house habitable. They will then take out any money needed to cover the council's letting agent fees and property management costs. Only then, if there is anything left, will the actual owner get something.
The state will be able to confiscate your property for seven years.
Of course, the property owner will still be responsible for paying the mortgage if there is one - even if they are getting no income. The council, despite taking the rent, won’t cover the mortgage payments. But should this lead to a default, the bank can repossess the property, so the owner will potentially lose everything.
That isn’t the end of the scandal, because should the tenant, which the council found, stop paying rent, the council can’t evict them as they have full legal tenancy rights. Leaving the property owner with even fewer rights than the non-rent paying tenant.
People have complicated lives which means they may end up with an empty property - for example if an elderly parent dies, a messy divorce or a house you hoped you could one day do up.
Housing Secretary, Angela Rayner, too has a complicated housing arrangement. She divides her time across three accommodations - her Westminster one, her constituency home in Ashton-under-Lyne, and her new controversial Hove apartment (the one she didn’t pay full stamp duty on over which she had to resign).
No doubt the state won’t be looking to seize her private property. In this Socialist nightmare we are living through, some are always more equal than others.
@DeesPhilli48949@naughty_mentor@kat__writes Utter tosh.. it’s the humanity in us that causes us to care so much and grieve so deeply.. they are not our children but they are a constant daily companion and provider of joy, support, solace and unwavering devotion.. any normal person would react in that way!
@metpoliceuk@BettyBoochichi2@NickTenconi@metpoliceuk you need to be more contrite, not defensive .. you serve the people, ALL of the people.. and you are complicit in the perception of national two tier policing, in that arbitrary rules /controls are placed on some protests, but not others…
A Statement of Conscience on October 7
I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being.
On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first.
But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity.
This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it.
But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken.
I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire.
Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven.
So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy.
And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it.
So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance.
The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again.
Imam Tawhidi
@BasedMillwaII@andyburnham@HantsPolice Surely they have to have the suspicion they are contributing to ASB… not just peacefully gathering it going about their lawful business?
I think it’s a disgrace that last night UNDOCUMENTED foreign nationals were allowed into Gosport and given police protection and escort YET at the very same time the police were checking the ID of local residents to let them go down their own roads to go home.
Does nobody see how absolutely bonkers that is?!
Last night you had more rights and less checks if you arrived in Gosport illegally via a boat than if you lived in town itself. Someone make it make sense.
We need to start asking some uncomfortable questions.
Yesterday, we were informed that another police officer had taken their own life. We were also told that the officer had recently been served with papers by Professional Standards.
We have now also been told that serving officers at that force have been warned that speaking publicly about what has happened could result in disciplinary action.
If accurate, that raises further serious questions.
In recent months, police officers and bereaved families have approached us drawing comparisons between what is happening within policing and the Post Office scandal.
There is a growing feeling that policing is destroying some of its own people.
When the public hears “misconduct investigation”, they may understandably assume serious wrongdoing. Yet we have heard accounts of lengthy, disproportionate investigations and careers being placed at risk over matters including private WhatsApp messages, memes and GIFs.
For many officers, policing becomes part of their identity. Threaten their career, reputation and sense of belonging after years of exposure to trauma, violence and death, and the consequences can be devastating.
Officers must be held accountable for wrongdoing. But accountability does not require a process that is disproportionate, unnecessarily prolonged or inhumane.
And officers should not be frightened into silence when legitimate questions need to be asked.
There is a much bigger story here.
It demands proper, independent investigation.