Awkward or what? Met Chief asked by MP to apply the laws of the land to his chums and peers
Intro by Steve Cook
I’m featuring this article from UK Reloaded’s sister site, Europe Reloaded for obvious reasons.
The Met Police Chief is probably in an invidious position of having to apply the country’s laws to his chums and peers. Awkward. I don’t envy him. Nevertheless he and his officers have a duty to apply the law without fear or favour to all, which includes the nobs and toffs as well as us plebs.
As soon as you render some section of society immune to the county’s laws you set up a haven for criminals and invite lawlessness. When those exempt from the law and justice are the elite governing the country you have a recipe for decay and catastrophe – which we are now witnessing.
Apart from anything else, if our “elite” don’t set a good example of being law-abiding citizens they will have a hard time convincing the plebs they should be. The decay of law and order probably starts at the top and permeates down.
What is happening to our country is the mismanaged mess you get when you let criminals run the show impervious to comeuppance or consequences. Criminals do not govern well, they merely make the rest us miserable so it would be a good idea if we could knock off entrusting the governance of the nation to crooks.
We could make a start by bringing some of these crooks to justice instead of letting them get away with their shenanigans. Which is where the police come in, we hope.
Our manifestly criminal-parasite “elite” must be brought under the law and the rules of good conduct that govern the rest of us.
So it falls the the senior officers of the police to ensure this happens.
We are sure they will want to do right by their country and its people and launch investigations that will exonerate the blameless and bring wrongdoers to justice -WHOEVER THEY MAY BE.
But it’s easy for me to say and I can understand why the Met Chief – if such is happening – may be squirming a little.
However, simply ignoring Andrew Bridgen’s communication looks bad and there is a danger that millions will see it as a sign that criminality is thriving in the corridors of power.
The Principles of Public Life referred to the article are worth repeating here:
selflessness,
objectivity,
integrity,
accountability,
openness,
honesty,
leadership
and I would add this:
be worthy of trust.
Over to you, Sir Mark.
We recommend answering MP Andrew Bridgen’s communication.
Communication, as they say, is the universal solvent.