George Galloway Monologue:
No more Dixon of Dock Green
For younger readers it is important to know that there was a time – in my lifetime- when the British Police were almost universally admired and respected. They were tall, men, in smart uniforms, collar and tie.
If you were lost you were taught to ask them for directions. If you were in trouble to head for a Dr Who style Police Box and seek their help. There were plenty of them and if they weren’t in the Box they were on your “beat” patrolling in pairs and saying good-morning all, like the fictional Jack Warner (a communist in real life) character PC Dixon of Dock Green, a Saturday evening BBC television staple.
Now we have no “law-enforcement” we have regime-enforcement and it is only going to get worse.
The Police are akin to an Occupation force, policing the population rather than the criminals.
Actual crime is so rife it is often not worth reporting and the citizens know the criminals, who might seriously harm them, will in any case be long gone before a police officer reaches the scene of the crime. If they reach it at all.
But issue a “mean tweet” or even retweet someone else’s mean tweet and you will have multiple police officers at your door before you can say Dixon of Dock Green.
And this even when no definable “crime” has been committed. Where parliament has not spoken. And where the courts have not weighed the “lawfulness” of the law being enforced. Or where the law if it IS a law is plainly an ass, unenforceable unBritish and here today gone tomorrow.
Time permits only two examples though there are many more including some very personal to me.
My routine views on gender-mania constituted a crime. I routinely “miss-gendered” in the ordinary way I speak. I refuse to say that a man is a woman no matter what the “law” says, particularly in my own home. I refuse to agree that a biological male is entitled to share a changing room with my wife or knock out my daughter in a boxing ring.
There is no “hate” involved in this, just common sense. My views are shared by the vast majority of British people who have never been asked let alone agree to the changes in the “law” in recent years. The political class, unanimously, decided this for themselves. And lo and behold, the Supreme Court quite recently decided that the “law” that had been being enforced wasn’t the law at all. Was in fact, unlawful.
Lip-service has been paid to this Supreme Court judgement but in reality the political class has carried on regardless. There has been NO law-enforcement of what has been adjudged to be the law of the land.
Thousands of people are presently on bail awaiting trial on Terrorism charges in Britain in connection with the carnage in Palestine. Old people as old as 90, disabled people, blind people, retired Vicars, retired military veterans have all been carted away by hundreds of Police Officers (see previous) for exercising their ancient and very British rights to peacefully protest (in fact hold up handwritten cardboard placards) at vast expense of their time and our money. All because a here today gone (almost literally) tomorrow group of politicians decided like Alice in Wonderland to rewrite the meaning of the word Terrorism.
No rational person agrees that being a bloody nuisance and carrying out non-violent civil disobedience equals terrorism. Certainly no jury so far. That knee-jerk foreign inspired decision has led the whole British state down the rabbit-hole declaring thousands of their own citizens to be terrorists! And treating them accordingly.
And again, lo and behold the “law” the police were being instructed to enforce turned out NOT to be the law at all but rather UNLAWFUL according to the Supreme Court. A decision which the here today soon to be gone government are appealing at great cost of their time and your money.
There once was a great loathing in Britain of “Political Policing”. The Gestapo was a loathed thing.
The word Gestapo is merely German for State Police. But those two words were redolent of some very unBritish ideas. “Show me your papers” policing and the policing of thought and speech.
In the Blair-World, which is the Britain we still live in, these concepts are now absolutely orthodox and soon to be digitally enforced. No need to show your papers when the surveillance cameras have already rumbled you.
Twinned with a digital currency there will soon be little to police you for, you will already be policing yourself.
Evening All.
George Galloway
Workers Party Leader
In Exile.
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