If the Met gave a flying fuck about the integrity of it's Downing St investigation...

[ThinWomansBrain]

It would have started it twenty months ago?

I agree.

Right?! How long does it take to investigate what Boris Johnson was up to, when he had police protection watching him all the time…

Also, all the Met can do is hand out a few fines. It’s not like they’re in the middle of a manhunt for a murderer. No jury trial is coming up. Publishing the Sue Grey report isn’t going to change what anyone says to the police either: they’re either “team boris” and part of the cover up, or they’re not.

Is the real reason that the Met don’t want the report published, because it makes it so very obvious that the police refused to enforce the laws against politicians and civil servants despite handing out £10,000 fine to a vicar for an outdoor religious service and terrorising women exercising because they were holding coffee? We had police drones following us around our local park in lockdown while we exercised. Creepy as hell.

Shameful the lot of them. And very scary how hard this corrupt dictatorship is to dislodge.

I think @Thirtytimesround is spot on. The report is being redacted/ repressed because the facts will show police officers didn't enforce the laws in Downing Street but were malicious in doing so elsewhere.

Pretty much everything the police do is out of self-interest usually.

The police should have acted in the beginning. Nothing gets in or out of Downing St without police say so. Hundreds of people with suitcases full of alcohol would not have gone unnoticed. The police are in this up to their eye sockets.
Disrespect for the law came from the top - the lawmakers themselves, supported by the police. It's appalling that the police have stood by and allowed themselves to be used like this.

@ThinWomansBrain

It would have started it twenty months ago?

That's quite a assumption, who's to say what politics with it all are going on. Even if we believe the papers and other sources of information, what's your analysis op ? Or is this post more of a thought rather than a conclusion of a detailed analysis of different sources of information ?

The police at Downing St must have known comings and goings at Downing St did not tally with following lockdown rules. Yet it was kept quiet and ignored.

Sajid Javid's brother is the Asst Deputy Commissioner for Professional Standards at the Met. His boss is Helen Ball... who just happens to be Cressida Dick's life partner.

Things couldn't be tighter between the Gov, the Met and the arm of the Met which checks the Met is acting professionally.

The whole thing stinks.

Hawkins - I doubt many posts on aibu are the result of "a detailed analysis of different sources of information" - but I'm fairly well read on current affairs and linten to a fair amount of political reporting on the radio.

My general feeling is that given no 10 is guarded by the met police 24/7, said police might have noticed workers popping out en mass with mini suitcases and reappearing after however long it takes to get to the local tesco and select a few bottles of plonk - I would have thought they scanned or investigated hand luggage, similarly they must have known about non-business visitors popping in for evening parties.

Who knows - it they'd bothered to investigate earlier breaches, it might have brought it home to downing street staff, including Johnson, that they are not an elite race apart and above the laws - particularly the ones they should bloody know about because they'd just created and announced them. They might even have got the message after a few months and curtailed the boozy parties/business meetings.

Preventing/delaying the publication of the report when the likely outcome is limited to a few fixed penalty fines is an outrageous cover up.

The fact that the police and security services guard Downing St is exactly why these parties could go on with impunity. The public don't walk pass the place and traffic doesn't drive through. The neighbours are 11 Downing St - also fully aware what was going on.
It's been a mega cover up under the nose of the police - never has the reputation of the police been dragged so low by a Tory Party (no pun intended )and a Prime Minister who will no doubt be lecturing us all on 'law and order' and 'making criminals pay'. No credibility left in any of them.

Yes I agree and I think that the police have been implicated in the report which is why there is now a bit of a panic behind the scenes. They might have a friendly agreement at the very top but for those civil servants who are looking at potentially losing their jobs, their best defence would be to say that they didn't think they were doing anything wrong because the police were aware and never challenged them. They were literally standing on the doorstep! Neglect if duty is a serious offence too so there is also that aspect.

I think they are hoping if they shilly shally long enough people will forget about it. Probably desperately hoping for a major news event so they can 'bury' it.

Probably desperately hoping for a major news event so they can 'bury' it.
Andrew guilty would do that.
Boris is probably shagging a lot in case another baby might.

The Met shouldn't even be investigating this. It should be another police force.
Cops are supposed to operate in a politically neutral way, without fear or favour. I would say that the Met has not done that and is incapable of doing that.

I can’t believe anyone has any faith left in the police at all - corrupt at the top, I feel dreadful for those who do their job properly and fairly and will be tarred with the same brush!

Total corruption but I feel the Police and the Met in particular wanted BJ more onside over the Wayne Couzens and other actions with the Met -they all protect each other.

Is the real reason that the Met don’t want the report published, because it makes it so very obvious that the police refused to enforce the laws against politicians and civil servants despite handing out £10,000 fine to a vicar for an outdoor religious service and terrorising women exercising because they were holding coffee? We had police drones following us around our local park in lockdown while we exercised. Creepy as hell.

It looks that way!