Dixon Shrugged

Say, did I miss anything? 

Last time I checked Sunak was an empty suit and Starmer was a slippery weasel sooo....guess not. 

In fact, so useless are our political class that even people on the Government's payroll are  checking out. 

Ruh oh! 

Reminder: 90% of the left's stupid ideas rely on them convincing their intended victims to allow themselves to be preyed on. Once actual sane people tell them to shove it, it all goes horribly wrong. 

It's a true mask off moment though. Apparently the ones who handed back their 'ticket' have been threatened with being deployed on Response teams i.e. patrolling around responding to emergency calls. 

In other words, policing.

That's it. That's how senior police officers think about actual policing: Siberia with junkies. 

And then there's the charming 'community':

The fatal shooting, which sparked mass protests from the black community including from British rapper Stormzy, led to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launching a murder investigation. 

Say, I wonder when someone in the MSM is going to ask Stormzy and his pals about the Nottingham Horror? 

Personally, I'm going with  'never' - unlike Mr Plod MSM journalists only shoot blanks these days. They'll probably hit Stormzy with a tough curve-ball like 'is it hard to be so awesome and yet so wonderful at the same time'? 

Ditto, legal leftists. If you threw a bucket of water over them at 4 AM they'd jerk awake sermonising about muh sacred legal process. Now it turns out that 'Independent Prosecutors' are only independent right up until Burn Loot Murder start doing what they do best, but the right is required to pretend not to notice there's a large elephant in the room and it's sitting right on top of the CPS. 

Hence why the Usual Suspects are outrageously outraged at Suella Braverman coming out in support of the police. Just like Stormzy and his pals, leftists want to be free to attack the right, but they're outraged that anyone fights back. 

That Was Kind Of The Point...

Alan @ B-BBC notes a certain difference in tone in the BBC's reporting of South Yorkshire Police's two adventures in creative writing.

He's got a point, but coming back at you, Al!

Up until a week ago, anyone saying the official story of Hillsborough was total balls was clearly a tinfoil hat wearing loon. Besides, Scousers! Even though, well,...you know.

Now we know that the main mistake us sceptics made was lack of imagination. Who knew that even the families' own lawyers were in on it? Are we supposed to be shocked that, contrary to popular mythology, SYP aren't an otherwise blameless organisation driven mad by the strain of dealing with Scousers?

The whole point folks like me were making was that you can't be slightly corrupt. Once you accept that it's OK for police officers to file false reports, destroy CCTV footage and release bogus press statements, there's no getting off the bus. That's Conservatism 101. It's the left and their libertarian pals that keeps telling us, hey, a little bit of corruption/perversion/cannibalism etc doesn't make someone a bad person.

Well, not necessarily, but that's the way to bet.

True Dat

This is from the US but it maps across perfectly to the 'envy of the whirled' vs the Legal Aid Money Tree.

Great Moments in Judicial Independce

Let's check the rules here: when an elected representative of the people criticises a sentencing decision, that's a grave assault on the principle of judicial independence , but when a member of the legal profession slaughters an outsider, and is then bought before a legal tribunal staffed by his legal colleagues, which exploits a Frankensteinian reimaging of the law to let him off, why, sir, that's the very model of a functioning justice system.

Jihadis: Still Only The Second Worst Group Of Scum On Earth

The jihadis might be taking a pounding at the moment, but their allies are doing all it can to try and relieve the pressure.First, there's this:

A top military commander says in a sworn affidavit Canadian troops would have to quit fighting the Taliban if they could not hand prisoners over to Afghan authorities.

Listing a long series of possible embarrassments and defeats, Brigadier-General André Deschamps outlined what he says would be the dire consequences, including losing the war, should a Federal Court judge rule in favour of a request by human-rights groups to issue an injunction banning the transfer of detainees to Afghan prisons because of the risk of torture or abuse.

Hand prisoners taken in Afghanistan over to the Afghans ? Liberals won't hear of it. And so the position of the legal profession is now what it was in the Victorian era: you can't trust the wogs to behave like civilised men.

Of course, this is Canada. Even lawyers shape up when the threat becomes undeniable.

Well, maybe not:

This week the IDF distributed ribbons to its soldiers and officers for their service in the war with Hizbullah in 2006. The ribbons were a source of embarrassment. Soldiers and officers, who like the general public view the war as Israel's greatest military defeat, are loath to pin them on their uniforms.

While the soldiers and general public view the war as a failure, one sector of Israeli society sees the war as a great triumph. For Israel's legal establishment, the war was a great victory. It was a war in which its members asserted their dominance over Israel's political and military leadership.

In so far as the legal profession now openly boasts of its ability inhibit counter-terrorism, could the MSM at least stop presenting these people as disinterested commentators on civil liberty ?

Coulter D'Jour

On healthcare:

As long as we're studying the health care systems of various socialist countries, are we allowed to notice that doctors in these other countries aren't constantly being sued by bottom-feeding trial lawyers stealing one-third of the income of people performing useful work like saving lives?

But the Democrats (and Fred Thompson) refuse to enact tort reform legislation to rein in these charlatans. After teachers and welfare recipients, the Democrats' most prized constituency is trial lawyers. The ultimate Democrat constituent would be a public schoolteacher on welfare who needed an abortion and was suing her doctor.

Not Anti-Violence, Just On The Other Side

If the case for Liberalism is so strong, how come we're never allowed to discuss the evidence ? Take the latest in the case of their new pin-up:

Veteran author Gitta Sereny has defended the killer of headteacher Phillip Lawrence's right to anonymity on his eventual release from jail....

Legal experts agree Chindamo would need the protection of a lifetime injunction to hide his identity if he is allowed to stay in Britain...

'Legal Experts' - or, as Earth people say: lawyers.

Ms Sereny said: "I think that if he is released from jail within the next year it is almost inevitable that they should give him anonymity because his life would be made impossible otherwise...

It would be impossible for him to find work and make new friends if he is not granted anonymity.

See, this is what I was saying: in a sane society it's kind of accepted that people have the right to avoid associating with murderous savages.

Meanwhile, the same Left that's consumed with grief for all those homicidal thugs cold-shouldered at the golf club has no problem abusing actual, real victims.

(tip of the hat to you know who)

Shakedown Latest

This is great. Plus, it's nice to imagine the femiloons reduced to spluttering rage, unable to use their usual tactic of whining about ‘sexism’. Boo hoo! It’s not blokes who are claiming that employers need to provide each female employee with their own chaise longue to collapse onto should they ears be assailed by indelicate language. These losers make the Victorians look like Hell’s Angels.

Personally, my favourite bit was the femiloon claiming that a whole new pack of bogus rights popping up out of thin air actually makes it easier for employers. Presumably, that’s kind of like being mugged means you don’t have the worry of having to decide what to spend all that money on ?

Liberals In Hell

Teachers squaring off against lawyers ? What's a Lib to do ? Produce reams and reams of action plans, strategies and other displacement activities, of course.

Funnily enough, none of these great ideas address the central problem, namely the imbalance that exists built into the legal system whereby m'learned friends can coin it in from a successful case but if it all goes horribly wrong ? Well, who cares ? At least you have to pay a pound to enter the lottery.