Cressida Dick

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Surely she has got to resign over this? Police all over the country hounding people to ensure compliance and there is the head of the Police force in the most highly affected city of a country on lockdown, standing out in a crowd of public and police leading the thursday night clapping.

WTAF??

I don’t think she should resign over it as presumably she didn’t know so many people would turn out but I do think the Thursday night clapping at hospitals and places like Westminster Bridge should be stopped.
They had a singer (not sure if live or recorded) at our local hospital, plus emergency services and even RAC vans, with idiotic members of the public turning up to have a look.

Although I guess she could have prevented the thing from going ahead.

I just can't get my head round the unbelievable stupidity of it. Of course she should resign, but I know she won't. She won't even apologise. They'll just find someone else to blame.

Some of those officers on that bridge will have been the ones chasing people out of parks

The cognitive dissonance is off the scale.

Back off

Trying to get a bit of cheap positive publicity for herself being filmed doing the clapping for the NHS. Her force is supposed to be helping the NHS by stopping large gatherings of people spreading the virus ffs!

What other mayhem was occurring while all those service vehicles were blocking up the bridge?

Perhaps she thinks it's pointless stopping people gathering on the bridge when 15,000 people a day are arriving at our airports before travelling across the UK to wherever they live/are staying. Makes a mockery of lockdown and stopping the spread.

Dick by name......

Cressida has to be thick.

Toffee I just cannot wrap my head around that decision to allow arriving passengers to reintegrate without quarantine. The rationale is apparently CV is so widespread there is no point. But there are different strains of the virus, it can still mutate. Why risk it?

I feel like the people in charge are incredibly stupid and reckless.

I am scared of their stupidity and power.

Agree with you @forsucksfake
It's as if they want people to die. If lockdown was taken seriously by the government (closing airports except for freight, medical, and military) wouldn't that stop it being so widespread. Or am I being thick?

No, Toffee, you are right. I don't know if it is ineptitude or indifference or cruelty but the decision makers have left me terrified. I am just sorry for all the essential workers and the people who are in no position to self-isolate at home. They are bearing the brunt of these foolish decisions.

But surely you know 'The Science' doesn't support the idea that flights coming in are a risk? That's right. You mustn't sit on a park bench but you can fly in to Heathrow and go straight onto public transport because 'The Science' apparently says this is fine.

Have countries like Spain, Italy and France closed airports apart from freight, medical and military? It does seem strange thing not to do.

Was she on Westminster bridge?

If so then yes.

DH said it all seemed organised with a helicopter joining in, what were they thinking???

I think she should have resigned after the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Agree.

And the comments she made in an interview about CSA and rape.

I've never been impressed.

I was quite shocked by "The Clap" last night. Sky News reported from a street somewhere which was packed with people, it looked like a street party. Then one of their reporters interviewed a woman in her front garden who said she was "shielding". The journalist was just stood right in front of her. Then the farce over Westminster Bridge. It's like people think it's a fucking carnival. And don't get me started on the fireworks.

This Twitter thread is quite funny.

twitter.com/EmmaManzini/status/1251108165506289665?s=20

#BeetRootrocks

What were the comments?

Love that, Helena!

I'll try to find it

It was in an interview about sex crime and she said they were interested in convictions and in historical cases (which lots of CSA cases are) and in cases of 'misunderstanding' between two people that know each other (which you can read as date rape) they wouldn't be interested.

I'll see if I can dig it out. There were probably threads at the time.

It was an interview with the times

'She told the newspaper: 'Speaking as a cop, opposed to a citizen, I'm interested in crime. If it's a long time ago, or it's very trivial, or I'm not likely to get a criminal justice outcome, I'm not going to spend a lot of resources on it.

'And what might be a misunderstanding between two people, clumsy behaviour between somebody who fancies somebody else, is not a matter for the police.'

I can't understand why police, ambulance etc all join in an area together.

For example, the police pitched up at Barnsley Hospital, the police and ambulance were on Westminster Bridge. There's similar at Poole Hospital. What are the police doing at the hospital? Just pitching up to do the clap?

Surely police should either do the clapping (if they have to) at their own base, pull their car in if they're on patrol or stand on a street corner if they're walking patrol. So why do they pitch up at a hospital?

The only people who 'should' have been on the bridge were people who were driving or walking across it at the time. The only reason they all pitch up is so there's publicity and an ill founded idea of clapping at a hospital.

My DS was treated at the Evelina Hospital a few times and I'd have been livid if that racket had disturbed him when he was fighting for his life. Clap, crash and bang on your doorstep, in your police yard, in your car - you don't all have to stand side by side so we can get a lovely photo of you.

This needs to be toned down now - clap like it was originally supposed to be done. Leave the fireworks, pots, pans and bloody singers behind.

The hospitals are encouraging it though

One clip I saw they had put a big screen outside and were blaring out queen.

Obviously it's there for people to come and join in with....

I don't get it at all.