Soft on Crime

Though quick enough to recognise the moral imperatives of arming plucky little Ukraine or removing the right of workers to withdraw their labour, on the matter of pandering to the Metropolitan Violence and Silence Club matters are a little less clear-cut. As a brown female in a viciously sexist and racist working environment, the Home Secretary must perforce be stupider and nastier than her colleagues even were that not her natural inclination. Faced with the remarkable career of David Carrick and the Met's crypto-Westminsteroid culture of promotion by unsuitability, the Minister for Wog Control and Forcible Enforcement stated that "bureaucracy and process appear to have prevailed over ethics and common sense." As usual, the problem is that there are too many rules. Fortunately, another serving police officer was recently considerate enough to kidnap, rape and murder someone, thereby precipitating an inquiry onto which the Carrick affair can be shunted without excessive inconvenience. Additionally, there will be another review of dismissal processes, on the off-chance that previous reviews of those same dismissal processes may have missed something that might serve as an excuse for continuing not to improve them. On the positive side, the Minister does seem to have got through an entire Commons session without blaming immigrants or their legal representatives; although it remains as yet unclear whether she did so deliberately.