Cressida Dick

[Fritilleries]

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

She, and any officers on duty at no 10 at the occasion that the parties/BYOB business meetings took place that decided no action was necessary should be fired.
And no bloody pay offs or dodgy ennoblements.
And she should deliver a full explanation of the whole fuck up to the committee on standards (or whichever committee in most appropriate)

There's probably a bloody No.10 social committee

The list of failures by the Met goes on and on.
One example www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-60118874

Cressida Dick is a disgrace. The words corrupt and UK go together so well now.

I was aghast when she was clapping for the NHS on Westminster Bridge surrounded by others. It was really packed and definitely no social distancing. She didn’t seem concerned. I remember thinking but you are not allowed out.

She should have gone the day Menezes was killed. I can't hear her name without thinking about it, it makes me sick that she "survived" that and was promoted.

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.

I remember that, Paul something, he was everywhere on TV and radio confidently spouting lies.

@MythicalBiologicalFennel

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.

I remember that, Paul something, he was everywhere on TV and radio confidently spouting lies.

Could be the subject of an entire series of "Where are they now".

I’m really shocked. I knew BJ and the Cabinet were dodgy as hell, and I knew in general the police aren’t very good at their job, but I never thought they’d interfere in a political process like this. What they said doesn’t even make sense. The absolute most the police can do for lockdown breaches is issue a few fines. Asking the Caninet Office to keep the report secret so they can “investigate” the allegations? Well how long does that take?? They didn’t do lengthy investigations for any of the other lockdown fines. There are police guarding Downing Street 24 hrs a day and seeing the drunk staff coming and going and listening to the music blaring etc. How long does it take to have an conversation with them and decide wherher or not to issue a fine?!

The police have been on BJ’s side from day one. They’re great at arresting women for carrying coffee during exercise, and absolutely brilliant at bullying toddlers for playing on their own front lawn, but clearly they do not police the behaviour of government officials.

So let me get this straight:

1. BJ and his mates are alleged to have had a bunch of parties in lockdown.

1. BJ says all rules were followed.

1. Photos emerge. Video of Allegra laughing. Copies of email invites to parties.

1. BJ acts all surprised and says no one do anything until Sue Grey report is out.

1. Sue Grey, who works for BJ, is not the ideal investigator into her boss but ok. We wait. BJ promises report won’t be edited.

1. BJ goes mysteriously quiet and starts looking cheerful…

1. Police demand that any evidence of wrongdoing be deleted from the published report. When the entire report is about wrongdping. That’s the whole frickin point.

Meanwhile BJ is STILL in power and absolutely nothing is getting done. Europe on verge of war, pandemic awful, poverty everywhere, thousands of people can’t afford heating and all the government is doing is pondering how to stay in power.

Trump did not go quietly.

BJ is our Trump.

One thing they have in common, they are both in jobs that no one in their right mind would want at the moment . Personally I can't stand Ms Dick as she relies too much on statistics and risk assessments but who would be capable of fulfilling her role. Boris, I feel is the least bad option as PM. Sir Keir doesn't have a single original thought in his head and seems to be focussed only on name calling and bringing the tories into disrepute (not that they don't do enough of that by themselves). His main reason for occupying the role he has is that he's not Jeremy Corbyn, nothing more than a placekeeper til new Labour find a way to make themselves acceptable to voters

I’m really shocked. I knew BJ and the Cabinet were dodgy as hell, and I knew in general the police aren’t very good at their job, but I never thought they’d interfere in a political process like this.

No shock here. An AIBU poll would be interesting.

I'm not sure why the political interference is such a surprise, Thirtytimesround. They'd never accept a Commissioner for London, of all places, who couldn't be controlled, so an arrangement of mutual back-scratching's inevitable

I'm not suggesting that should happen of course, only that it will

@tkwal how can you possibly think BJ is a good option for PM? Literally anyone else would be better. Conservative, Labour, Green, Liberal… You could literally pick any name out of a hat in the Houses of Parliament and get someone with more competence and integrity than BJ.

(Sir Kier is a QC. Know how many stupid QCs there are? Zero. It’s an extremely difficult title to obtain.)

But this isn’t about BJ v Sir Kier, this is NOT Conservative vs Labour. It’s about whether there should be any consequences when the man who locked down the rest of the country, and signed off £10000 fines for students and vicars, turns out to have himself been partying through lockdown. It’s about whether the UK accepts a corrupt leader, or not.

If you’re aConservative supporter you should desperately want BJ replaced because it’s the only way to keep the party electable.

I said BJ was the least bad option. I did not say KS is stupid. He seems to have an inability to come up with anything constructive. QCs are skilled at making a big deal of minutiae when it suits them. Again IMO BJ is giving dumb blonds and schoolboys a bad name and he needs to stop letting his wife hold so much influence over him

and he needs to stop letting his wife hold so much influence over him

the only part of Boris Johnson that any women have any influence over is the part that is echoed in the fact we are talking about Dame Cressida Dick. Who for all I know may be another notch on that shag rats bed post. In fact if you wanted to investigate the proposition that Boris is banging Cressy, then there's already too much circumstantial evidence to really dismiss it out of hand. What Carrie may think - or know - is another matter.

The issue is that those in power have totally succeeded in creating a nation who just accept the status quo and are not polically aware. I am nearly 50 and I have been so lucky in my opportunities compared to children now. Tories have been really successful in turning education into a fixed regime, taking away support from families in need to keep them in their place, ensuring wealth stays in the top few percent and that it continues to grow for big investors and most importantly creating an environment in which the average worker/family turns on those most in need. Just to type that now means I come accross as a rabid leftist. I am not, I am a social worker of many years who would like the young people I work with to believe people care and they have a future and can make a difference.

@DGRossetti

and he needs to stop letting his wife hold so much influence over him

the only part of Boris Johnson that any women have any influence over is the part that is echoed in the fact we are talking about Dame Cressida Dick. Who for all I know may be another notch on that shag rats bed post. In fact if you wanted to investigate the proposition that Boris is banging Cressy, then there's already too much circumstantial evidence to really dismiss it out of hand. What Carrie may think - or know - is another matter.

Cressida Dick has been out as gay for a number of years. If you really want to suggest that she's screwing the PM, I'd suggest that you either provide some evidence or withdraw your comments.

The met police is rotten to the core and she is the maggot at its centre

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

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

Nope, the Met was found to be institutionally racist, after utterly failing to investigate properly the Stephen Lawrence murder.

Killing and arresting foreigners is par for the course.

@tkwal Plenty of high ranking officers in the Met, she had her contract extended because she will do the Govt's bidding, that is very obvious.

Why else would you not sack her after the Sarah Everard vigil debacle?

On Boris, would you be happy to date a man with his track record of numerous & unwanted (by him) children? or equally happy for your daughter to have a man like that in her life?

He is a moral vacuum.

Most "career"officers will dothe bidding of their political masters. Maybe they are keeping her on because it would be harder for them to sack a woman?Maybe it's because she is holding something over them?I reckon the police would be better off if there were more vocational officers and fewer graduates/careerists. As for BJ...I'd send any daughter of mine off to a convent rather than let her date him. But I don't believe in judging politicians by their (usually messy)personal lives. There are so many other reasons...

She’s an idiot.

"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."

I agree with this. Even if it's unlikely to result in a conviction, the police will consider the risks to a potential case and will take measures to preserve such case to the extent possible.

I think that Cressida Dick is probably an out-of-touch elite, and I truly despise the Tories and believe that pretty much all of them are also disgusting, power hungry protectors of the rich - but I also don't buy that institutional corruption would go quite that deep

I also don't buy that institutional corruption would go quite that deep

That's very trusting of you, gelato, especially when it's remembered that "upcoming criminal proceedings" are an ideal vehicle for suppressing the details

No need for those proceedings to actually happen; the whole thing can be kicked into the long grass while "investigations continue" and the focus moves onto somethng else, at which point the whole thing can be quietly dropped