Cressida Dick

[Fritilleries]

Is she in cahoots with Boris, or what?? AIBU to assume that the rot extends to our law enforcement?

Cressida Dick is a joke, she presided over the killing of an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes. What's worse is that she let false briefings to the press stand that he had jumped the tube barriers and therefore somehow 'deserved' to be shot and killed in broad daylight without being sanctioned.

That wasn't an accident. It's official Met policy.

The eyewitness the press "interviewed" has never been seen since. It's almost like they were a plant. Probably briefed and in place before the ambulance got there.

The poor tube driver was about 500 millisecond from death too. If the police had murdered him then you'd have heard no end of smear stories as to why we shouldn't be sorry he was killed. Poor JCdM made it easy by being foreign.

What a mess. Leaves me speechless.

She's an absolute embarrassment and if she had even a shred of decency she would step down . Failing upwards is such a common thread of anyone linked to Boris . - see also Dido Harding.

She's the best proof that neither ovaries nor testicles prove your professional competence, no matter how much she was hailed as the first female Met Commissioner.
She's like Patel, so remote from common people and over-privileged, living in her little bubble with the rest of the Tories.

I have little time for, or faith in, Cressida Dick Head of the Met.

However, the suggestion today that the Met's insistence on redacting the Sue Gray report before it is released is somehow a favour to Boris doesn't wash.

The government was evasive for weeks about whether it would publish the full Gray report or just the findings (i.e. not the evidence). When it became clear that the Met were involved the government changed its mind almost immediately and committed to publishing the full report as soon as it was released. My guess is that they calculated the Gray report's contents would almost certainly prejudice criminal proceedings and thus wanted to achieve that as fast as possible.

It pains me to say it, but I'm with the Met on this one.

Poor JCdM made it easy by being foreign.
And in the UK illegally

@Otherpeoplesteens

I have little time for, or faith in, Cressida Dick Head of the Met.

However, the suggestion today that the Met's insistence on redacting the Sue Gray report before it is released is somehow a favour to Boris doesn't wash.

The government was evasive for weeks about whether it would publish the full Gray report or just the findings (i.e. not the evidence). When it became clear that the Met were involved the government changed its mind almost immediately and committed to publishing the full report as soon as it was released. My guess is that they calculated the Gray report's contents would almost certainly prejudice criminal proceedings and thus wanted to achieve that as fast as possible.

It pains me to say it, but I'm with the Met on this one.

prejudice criminal proceedings

There isn't going to be a trial - ordinary people were issued fixed penalties for similar offences, so there are no proceedings to prejudice.

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

Poor JCdM made it easy by being foreign. And in the UK illegally

...what does that have to do with anything?

..what does that have to do with anything?
The exact same as the fact that he was foreign as mentioned by another poster.

@LovelyBitOfSquirrelInTheWirral

Yep she’s as bad as him. How else has she stayed in her job all this time with all the disasters and fuck ups she’s been at the helm of.

What's more amazing is how she got the top job in the first place as she was already "tarnished" before the more recent appointments/promotions.

There isn't going to be a trial - ordinary people were issued fixed penalties for similar offences, so there are no proceedings to prejudice.

Yep, at worst a file will be sent to the CPS who'll decide no further action is needed. Boris off the hook, Dick/Met off the hook, any blame deflected to CPS.

There isn't going to be a trial - ordinary people were issued fixed penalties for similar offences, so there are no proceedings to prejudice.

Misconduct in Public Office is an indictable offence.

If the police do not quickly disentangle themselves from these Downing Street crimes, and the cover up of Prince Andrew (they know exactly who he met, when and where and how often)..........the law will have very little respect shown for it, and test cases in court will appear citing this law breaking cover up as an excuse to get off charges. People are already talking about refunding others charged with breaking lockdown because of this.

Misconduct in Public Office is an indictable offence

Lying to Parliament is a resignation issue but should be a sackable one.

@StoneofDestiny

If the police do not quickly disentangle themselves from these Downing Street crimes, and the cover up of Prince Andrew (they know exactly who he met, when and where and how often)..........the law will have very little respect shown for it, and test cases in court will appear citing this law breaking cover up as an excuse to get off charges. People are already talking about refunding others charged with breaking lockdown because of this.

There are also the issues of small businesses being given huge fines or closed down by councils because of breaching covid regulations. Their compensation claims will keep the lawyers busy for years if there are no punishments for the No10 parties.

Another lying scum bag

@Otherpeoplesteens

There isn't going to be a trial - ordinary people were issued fixed penalties for similar offences, so there are no proceedings to prejudice.

Misconduct in Public Office is an indictable offence.

Quick ! Call the police.

Won't The Met have destroyed any records of Prince Andrew's movements in 2001 by now?

@BigGreen

Absolutely disgusting, I'm raging. Come election time I will be campaigning for whatever other parties I can to get the Tories out.

Cressida Dick is a joke, she presided over the killing of an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes. What's worse is that she let false briefings to the press stand that he had jumped the tube barriers and therefore somehow 'deserved' to be shot and killed in broad daylight without being sanctioned.

Talk about a cult of failing upwards. 'Dame' Cressida and now rumours of Sir Owen Paterson?!

This. She should have lost her job for this alone, yet more things are coming to light that happened under her watch.

The Met is a disgrace. Institutionally racist, homophobic, misogynistic and rife with corruption. Nothing surprising about Cressida Dick being involved in yet another cover-up.

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

Won't The Met have destroyed any records of Prince Andrew's movements in 2001 by now?

Who cares ? Certainly Dame Cressida Dick won't.

And if they aren't destroyed yet, they will be.

There isn't going to be a trial - ordinary people were issued fixed penalties for similar offences, so there are no proceedings to prejudice

That's if you assume that the Gray report only includes evidence in relation to Covid rule breaking. What if she found out about widespread cocaine use? Sexual harrassment/ assault etc at one of these parties? Could be any number of things, and I wouldn't put anything past this government.

I think cock up rather than conspiracy. Most likely Dick was embarrassed about the report's findings which would have implications for the Met, whose officers must have literally sat there and done nothing about what was going on under their noses. Suitcases of booze would have needed searching due to poential bomb threat. Public trust and confidence in the Met has taken a hammering over the past year in particular. Chances are, Dick now needs to be seen by the public to be doing the right thing and investigating it all properly - particularly as they're investigating and prosecuting Covid transgressions from a year ago among ordinary people, when previously they've said they don't investigate retrospectively. That's an untenable position to continue with in the current climate.

My only slight hesitation is that Priti Patel has been super quiet throughout, unusually so. And it's the Home Secretary who hires and fires the Met Commissioner...

Suitcases of booze would have needed searching due to potential bomb threat

That's is you believe the risk. 90% of "security" in the UK is theatre. That's why it's generally so shit.

I don't imagine it would be theatre at the home and office of the UK Prime Minister @DGRossetti The door is guarded 24/7 by the Met and that's before you even think about the secret service. I've seen the security that accompanied Theresa May when she was only Home Sec.

@Whatafustercluck

I don't imagine it would be theatre at the home and office of the UK Prime Minister *@DGRossetti* The door is guarded 24/7 by the Met and that's before you even think about the secret service. I've seen the security that accompanied Theresa May when she was only Home Sec.

That'll be the 10% then.