Btw, I’m fairly sure Ted Hastings is a bent copper too!! (! For Trig 😎)

Just because a system is corrupt it doesn’t mean everyone in it is. It just limits what they can achieve.

Same of all the top ex brass at the bbc, who now hold titles, moved onto other establishment whizzes, sit in the House of Lords etc have all claimed to know fuck all about that wanker Bashir and were still like unknowing mushrooms when the re employed him

I don't think most are corrupt and I don't think most are racist. I think too many look the other way when a fellow officer is misbehaving, not wanting to be labeled a grass. Another report today that officers accused of domestic violence are less likely to be charged than the average citizen.

So you don’t support BLM then T Swig?

It’s time for Cres Dick to leave the Met, she was equally complicit.

... and small is relative to the number of officers in all of our police forces which, God forbid, we never have to do without!

Won't be convinced, most police officers want to uphold the law and indeed do so ... specific cases do not reflect the ethos of all police officers ...

MAD, what do you think about the police coverup and lies during and after Orgreave?

Nick, spot on. Tomato, the corruption in this murder went FAR beyond a small number of individuals. Go get the back copies of PE and read the full story about how many and how high the corrupt OB were in this case. Yes most OB are relatively straight and honest, as far as that goes, but they all lie when it suits them. The only court case where I was acquitted in met territory was the only one where the officer told the truth. In every other case they lied and I was convicted.

TSwig, that’s not a small number of officers that have suppressed, covered up and spent years covering each other’s arses AND thwarted an inquiry for 8 years. It was systemic. But as we’ve seen with the Hilsborough fiasco, the courts cover ex coppers in teflon, so nothing will happen other than even more mistrust.

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Looks like a full crowd in Budapest and Hungary is 2nd in the covid deaths per capita table

The Met is not corrupt ... a small number of individuals within the force are corrupt as is the case in most walks of life ...

RS - I think that Private Eye is much underrated as a force for good. They (and Computer Weekly) were basically the only publications to pursue the Post Office accounting system scandal behind the prosecution of innocent sub-postmasters. Most of the press simply can't be bothered to pursue any story that is vaguely complicated and can't be reduced to a simplistic headline.

I wonder if Mr Growns did that deliberately!

Sorry if repetition - "I look forward to seeing her in action wearing a Wimbledon shirt.” - shades of David Mellor there!

I agree with you, Mr Egg. Connolly always looked threatening when he came on. He just didn't come on often enough. Can't remember now - was Ardley the manager at the time?

Don’t know if AR but Dylan Connolly gone to Northampton - I really liked him - I didn’t think he got a real chance with us

The only publication to come out this with some honour is Private Eye unsurprisingly. For decades they have been highlighting the corruption at the heart of the murder and for a long time they were the only journalists doing so.

I’m sure Wankerman would have honoured them for at least 6 months

If anyone had brought a 25 year season ticket in 1996, they would have been useless once the club moved to Milton Keynes.

Having re-examined Yarmolenko's goal for Ukraine and Rudoni's v Gillingha, they are near identical. Hats off to them both! [Link] [Link]

Paschal Taggart would say we got the new ground using underhand means, the Irish weasel

Didn’t Boris say his salary of 150 grand wasn’t enough to live on?