IF you want a very quick insight into what is wrong with this country, just take a look at the case of Police Constable Lorne Castle.
Lorne, 46, worked for the plod in Bournemouth. Twice decorated for bravery. A popular policeman with the public and within the force.
BNPSPolice Constable Lorne Castle, twice decorated for bravery, was sacked over his aggressive arrest of a knife-carrying teen[/caption]
This is the moment PC Lorne Castle pinned the teen downDorset Police
And then, one day, his career was over. Sacked for “gross misconduct”.
What happened was this. Lorne was called to make an arrest of a teenager suspected of assaulting two people.
He turned up and the 15-year-old resisted arrest. He continued to resist even when the PC had hold of him.
This scrote was carrying a knife, by the way.
Lorne shouted at the boy to stop screaming and resisting arrest. He pushed him to the floor and put a hand over his face. He swore at him. Swearing is of course very rude. None of us should swear.
The result was that after a 16-month inquiry, during which he was suspended from his duties, Lorne was sacked.
He was placed on the police debarred list, which stops him ever working with the police again.
His life has been ruined. The panel that sacked him claimed he had failed to treat the suspect with “respect and courtesy”. Incredible, no? “Hello old chap! I hope you are living your best life! I wonder if I could ask you . . . Oh, OK, goodbye then.”
The panel also said that Lorne’s behaviour made the boy feel “frightened and intimidated”. Good! How was he meant to feel? Elated and relaxed? Warm and comfortable?
A whip-round among officers has provided him with some of his wages. And a retired Chief Inspector has spoken in his favour.
DID HIS JOB
But what did his boss have to say? Dorset police’s deputy chief Rachel Farrell said the sacking was right.
She added: “(Officers) do a tough job and when their actions are proportionate, necessary and reasonable they will always be supported.”
That, it turns out, was a lie. The constabulary even issued footage of the arrest in an attempt to make Lorne look more aggressive. Stripped out of context, the film is quite brutal.
But here’s the point. The boy was not hurt. And an armed suspect was arrested. Maybe Lorne shouldn’t have called him a bitch. We can argue over that.
But the truth is that Lorne did a wholly effective job in what was a very dangerous situation. And then got dragged through the mire for doing what he thought was his duty.
To keep the public safe from hoodied scrotes carrying knives.
But today our society is on the side of the skanks and the scrotes. They have their Yuman Roights which must not be transgressed. Doesn’t matter what they do. They must be respected.
The truth is that Castle did a wholly effective job in what was a very dangerous situation.
Rod Liddle
And so we let shoplifters go free, cos they’re poor innit.
Almost no burglars are caught because society today doesn’t think crimes against property are terribly important.
Judges and tribunals tell asylum seekers they can remain here no matter what heinous crimes they have committed.
Because their rights trump our right not to be raped or stabbed or burgled.
And the few people who try to do the right thing? Like Lorne Castle, they end up being sacked.
TAXING FUTURE FOR US
ONE way or another we’re about to get clobbered with a tax rise.
It’s the only way Rachel from Accounts can get the books to tally.
And my guess – based upon observing her previous interventions in the economy – is that she will raise precisely the wrong taxes.
There will be taxes on the very people who might otherwise spend money and get the economy moving.
Her Budget last autumn sent the British economy into a sharp downward spiral.
She had stressed that her priority was for growth.
And then she went and slapped National Insurance on the very people who should be responsible for that growth – the small and medium businesses.
How long before Sir Keir Starmer has had enough of Reeves?
We’ve all had it up to here.
An E.T. solution for gloomy-moon mob
GettyA psychic American man called Ingo Swann claims a colony of aliens are on the dark side of the moon[/caption]
SuppliedHe also claims the CIA got him to train his powers on the moon’s far side[/caption]
APPARENTLY there’s a colony of aliens living secretly on the dark side of the moon.
The Americans know all about it, but have been sworn to secrecy.
They look like us and have built a tower bigger than the Empire State Building. (The aliens, I mean. But the Americans too I suppose).
This all comes from the diaries released by a psychic American man called Ingo Swann, who claims the CIA got him to train his powers on the moon’s far side.
And what I want to know is did these spies do this exercise for a laugh in their lunch hour?
And if not, shouldn’t we point out to the aliens that the other side of the moon is far nicer?
BIAS AT BEEB IS CLEAR
GOOD for Karoline Leavitt.
Donald Trump’s communications chief may spell her name funny, but she can also spot bad journalism from a mile away.
And so she turned her attention to the BBC. Which had filed a report blaming Israel for an attack. When it wasn’t Israel.
As Leavitt said, the Beeb just took the word of Hamas at face value. No querying or fact checking.
If the lovely little squirrels of Hamas say something happened, then something happened.
Karoline, we’ve had to put up with this standard of reporting ever since Hamas invaded.
Thank you for noticing.
ONE LAW FOR ISLAM?
HAMIT Coskun burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy.
Hamit was protesting about the increasing Islamisation of the country of his birth.
PAHamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence and fined £240 for burning a Koran[/caption]
While he was making his protest he was attacked by a man with a knife.
A delivery driver then kicked him in the back as he lay on the ground.
Remarkably, the fact he was attacked was used by the judge to support his guilty sentence to the crime of “using disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress.”
The judge is, I think, an idiot. And no matter how they try to word it, we now have a blasphemy law in this country – but only for Islam.
Burn a Bible and nobody will turn a hair.
GUB GRIPE IS DAFT
LET’S hear it for a proper old English moaner.
Susan, aged 69, went to Corfu on holiday. And she wasn’t having it.
No English food, you see. In Greece.
She moaned that it was all just “sardines and rice”.
She didn’t mind the chips. But everything else was awful.
No sausages, no bacon.
“One night there was a Greek night and they had kebabs, I couldn’t eat that”, she carped.
Also, the beach was too far away and the land sloped down to the sea so she had to walk uphill sometimes.
Susan is a Geordie. Try Whitley Bay next year.
The problem with foreign places is that they are full of bloody foreigners.
GettyA dozen new attack submarines are planned as Britain moves to a war footing[/caption]
DOES anybody, anywhere, understand when the UK is to raise its defence spending to three per cent of GDP?
Sir Keir Starmer, who made the announcement, clearly doesn’t have a clue.
It looks very much like it won’t be by the end of this Parliament, for a start.
There is talk of the UK needing to raise defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2034.
But it wouldn’t surprise me if 2034 is far too late.
Starmer was strong on defence for a while. But that interest now seems to have deserted him. Meanwhile, our enemies are looking on and sniggering.
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