London is no longer British.
Why has the mayor really got rid of Dick?

IS it the murders or the rapes or the knife crime?

More likely, it's because some policeman use hurty words that offend his precious minority voters.

Get used to it folks. London is now an immigrant republic.

This then all comes to a head over a topic that is the most important for public trust. Racism. The Charing Cross debacle. It focuses a lens on the behaviour of officers, and every type of bigotry is now on full show. The defence we have changed is no longer valid. Dick is literally stripped naked of any defence she has offered over corruption. So, an explanation is required and plan needs to be immediate of how she is going to deal with this very major problem.

Clearly what ever plan Dick offered to the mayor it was no longer enough. In 23 years the Met has had to stamp out racism, almost a whole generation, in a single report into one Police Station in Central London and it is clear that very little progress has made made in implementing the changes outlined in the MacPherson report. 23 years, no change.

The question Khan needs to ask himself is. Is removing the commissioner really enough to make a tangible difference? On past evidence the answer is no.

Hrolf. You’re a tool!

You’re a total moron.

It’s you who clearly needs to get used to something. You’re actually displaying your part of the problem. We always have been. This country is only 8000 years old as an island. Since then every bloodline has entered by boat, or latterly by air.

The truth is the MacPherson report was published in 1999. It labelled the Met institutionally racist. In the 23 year period in between, each commissioner has shouted from the roof tops how much they are doing to make the force better. More inclusive, more representative. Less corrupt, racism being a form corruption.

In the last year the press have kept up a campaign of maximum pressure, every Met failure has been placed under the microscope. They haven’t actually had to work very hard, because of the frequency of titanic cock-ups in fairness. The press line has been, the public are being short changed, the cost of the Met is huge. A simple truth.

Each time a failing by the Met has occurred the same excuses are trotted out, a single rotten apple (maybe Wayne Couzens) here a pair of rotten apples there. ‘Perhaps we didn’t get the balance right’ ‘I don’t recognise these accusations of the force I lead’ The stock defence by Dick over the last year has worn so thin it’s become transparent. On each occasion the Mayor and his assistant defend and protect Dick from a grilling at the GLA, have to mobilise MOPAC (their office of Police oversight) and as importantly have to answer questions from the same baying press over their confidence in Dick. To try and shelve these questions and directly after the publication of the report in the murder of Daniel Morgan, massively damning, and directly negative of Dick’s actions, the mayor extends her contract.

This then all comes to a head over a topic that is the most important for public trust. Racism. The Charing Cross debacle. It focuses a lens on the behaviour of officers, and every type of bigotry is now on full show. The defence we have changed is no longer valid. Dick is literally stripped naked of any defence she has offered over corruption. So, an explanation is required and plan needs to be immediate of how she is going to deal with this very major problem.

Clearly what ever plan Dick offered to the mayor it was no longer enough. In 23 years the Met has had to stamp out racism, almost a whole generation, in a single report into one Police Station in Central London and it is clear that very little progress has made made in implementing the changes outlined in the MacPherson report. 23 years, no change.

The question Khan needs to ask himself is. Is removing the commissioner really enough to make a tangible difference? On past evidence the answer is no.

Hrolf. You’re a tool!