PAUL RICHARDS

Semi-Retired ...Ex-Head of HR, Rugby Watcher/Referee,

[PAUL RICHARDS @PAULDENERICH]

@EuropcarUK hi can you help me please ?I arrive back in Heathrow on Thursday. I haven’t got my licence but my daughter can drop it off in the Heathrow office on Wednesday is this Ok ? I’ll collect car and licence in Thursday… is this doable …

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

For months, West Midlands Police insisted the decision to exclude Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from Villa Park was a safety measure based on fan behaviour. That claim has now collapsed. A secret internal dossier shows the force knew, in real time, that the threat came from local Islamist-linked groups and violent youths. And they chose to hide it.

The newly revealed Silver Command logs leave no room for spin. Officers recorded masked groups gathering. "Asian youths looking to fight." Fifty, then a hundred men moving towards the stadium. Intelligence that the Maccabi team's movements were being tracked online. This was not vague unease. It was the police tracking an active threat.

Yet while this was unfolding, senior officers were discussing how to describe the day publicly as "largely peaceful" in order to "dampen down online sentiment". That phrase should chill anyone who still believes the police exist to tell the truth.

West Midlands Police did not merely fail to confront a threat. They concealed it. They withheld high-confidence intelligence from Parliament. They downplayed danger while deploying resources to prevent violence. They blamed Maccabi supporters in public while their own logs recorded locals mobilising.

Craig Guildford stood before MPs and claimed the exclusion of Jewish fans rested on sound intelligence. It did not. It rested on a predetermined decision, followed by evidence stitched together after the fact. His officers went on television and repeated a story they knew was false.

Tom Joyce told Sky News the decision was "exclusively" about Maccabi hooliganism. At the same time, his own force was tracking groups preparing for violence against the visiting team. That statement was false.

What happened to the players themselves tells the same story. They were moved from their hotel hours early. They were forced to rest on mattresses on the floor inside Villa Park. Not because of rowdy Israelis, but to reduce the risk of protests interfering with their safety and to avoid officers having to use force. In plain English, the police expected trouble and chose concealment over confrontation.

Nick Timothy is right. The intelligence was bent to justify a decision already taken. Worse, the truth was suppressed to preserve appearances. The threat was inverted. The victims were blamed. The public was misled.

Robert Jenrick put it starkly. Police authority in parts of Britain now survives on illusion. This dossier proves it. When the illusion cracks, the response is not honesty but denial.

Lord Walney went as far as to invoke Watergate. Not because the scale is comparable, but because the pattern is identical. The initial failure was bad. The cover-up is fatal.

This is no longer about antisemitism alone, though the outcome speaks for itself. Jews were excluded from public life because others threatened violence. The state chose appeasement, then lied about it. That is how equal protection under the law dies.

The most revealing detail is not the threat itself. It is the instinct to describe reality as "over-dramatised". When police start curating truth to manage sentiment, they stop being guardians of order and become custodians of fiction.

Birmingham shows where Britain now stands. Not unsure. Not overwhelmed. But bending, then falsifying the record to hide the bend.
If a police force can knowingly mislead Parliament and the public to protect its reputation, trust is already gone. At that point, resignation is not punishment. It is the minimum act of responsibility.

And if it does not happen, the message will be unmistakable. The truth is negotiable. Intimidation works. And those who threaten violence will be accommodated, while those who are threatened are told to disappear quietly. That is not policing by consent. It is governance by fear.

"Nick Timothy is right. The intelligence was bent to justify a decision already taken. Worse, the truth was suppressed to preserve appearances."

[Nick The Red @Nickthered123]

Its Christmas, not festive season. Woke BBC #sportspersonalityoftheyear

[PAUL RICHARDS @PAULDENERICH]

@jim96040 @UpSkillYourLife SEND

[PAUL RICHARDS @PAULDENERICH]

@BBCScrumV @BBCiPlayer Is it a bit crazy that both teams are playing in Red ????

[Silvio Tattisconie 💎 ©™ 🇬🇧🎗 @SilvioTattiscon]

The girl from accounts now

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

BREAKING 🚨 : hundreds of British citizens, including journalists, are reporting that they’ve been visited by the police over the last few days regarding X posts.

They aim to silence anyone who speaks out, and that's just plain tyranny.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

When it was politically convenient to do so, Labour backed the WASPI women.

Today they have chosen to betray them.

#WASPI

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Here’s Angela Rayner promising that a Labour government would compensate the WASPI women.

She lied. Again.

@UKLabour @AngelaRayner @WASPI_Campaign

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Car crash interview…

‘There’s plenty of housing’ says Rayner and 2.5m more immigrants under Labour won’t cause pressure.

Innumerate, incompetent, inept.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Lying on this scale to the British public should be illegal.

It’s absolutely criminal.

[Jamie Phillips @JNPhillips4]

Farewell Foxy. A hand off to die for 😍

[Phil @icedcoffee]

If we can't laugh when the prime minister makes a gaffe when can we laugh?
#sausages

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

This wins the internet 🤣https://t.co/yGF4zGkRps

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

lol

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Who tf did this 😭

[Lewis Brackpool @Lewis_Brackpool]

The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales issues a warning that sharing online material of riots could be an offence.

This is the most disturbing and authoritarian warning I’ve ever seen.

Even RETWEETING footage could be an offence!