[News] Met Police “arrest night safety team for having rape alarms”

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I was up in London on last Wednesday. I walked across the lawn near the Millennium wheel. There were more than 20 police vans parked up. There were about 30 people sitting on a grassy knoll. They had no banners and could have been anyone. Six uniformed met police in yellow hazmat jackets were 'interviewing' some of them. Madness.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I was up in London on last Wednesday. I walked across the lawn near the Millennium wheel. There were more than 20 police vans parked up. There were about 30 people sitting on a grassy knoll. They had no banners and could have been anyone. Six uniformed met police in yellow hazmat jackets were 'interviewing' some of them. Madness.

A grassy knoll, you say? Hmmm.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A grassy knoll, you say? Hmmm.

Too flat for a knoll?

Not quite up to this standard of grassy knoll, I'll grant you....

 

[Doc Lynam]

This isn’t going to end well for the MET
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65527007

 

[Triggaaar]

This isn’t going to end well for the MET
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65527007

"Police made tough calls on arrests - minister"

Tough calls: Don't think, just arrest everyone who isn't supporting the coronation.

 

[Acker79]

This isn’t going to end well for the MET
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65527007

A similar thing to that 'easier to ask forgiveness than permission'. I.e. do something you know you shouldn't because you want to, then give a half-hearted 'sorry', after the fact when it can't be undone.

 

[Hove Lagoonery]

"They are volunteers. They were pulled last night at 2am"
In the West End? Sounds expensive for something you could do yourself...

 

[BadFish]

The unwillingness to hear dissenting voices is often discussed in modern society. Call it cancel culture, wokism, culture wars or political correctness we see it here on an industrial scale. Laws rushed through after years of vilifying and carefully curating a narrative around protesters.

Even if the MET have to take some of the blame for this, the strategy to silence the unwanted voices goes far higher.

Still I guess we better get back to being angry about the language in a children's book being updated.