Old perceptions fall, some still continue...

It was nice to come into a Monday early turn after a weekend and not have much to deal with.

Everyone was saying it was the Murray factor. A City glowing with the satisfaction of a long held sporting dream coming to fruition rather than sections of our customer base resorting to type on a weekend booze/anger fest.   

I was reading an article in the Evening Standard on my way home today quoting Damian Green, an MP… (look him up on Google if your that  interested)  who believes we as police should be invoking the Olympic spirit and raising our game . The glow of the Games should be infused into our daily routine.

It’s one thing being all smiley  in a one off specific environment where the Members of the Public are all nice, happy and ‘on board’ ...than at 2am in the morning, short staffed and dealing with drunken and violent idiots.

But what would an MP know?

He talks about banishing the ‘canteen culture’…..where are  his aides and researchers digging this stuff up from?

If he bothered to look at the Stats there are few canteens left open, if at all, in the  dwindling estate. It’s more of a ‘packed lunch, a microwave meal, or Tesco/ Sainsbury, Maccy D Culture’ than anything else …. All whilst working at the computer playing catch up.

He and the Press portray the MET as ENGULFED in scandal…..

B*****CKS

All in the past……just awaiting the Govt to give a knee jerk response to a drip fed media.

Let the politicians beat their breasts, the committees and the enquiries be set up. The only people who will gain are the legal teams on either side of the divide.

But that is as it ever will be.

Neither myself or any colleague I have worked with will be crawling down Whitehall crying ‘ mea culpa’.

Let the politicians and the media play the games.

Damian talks of ‘cleaning the stables’ out of the Police.

If he thinks the ‘stables of the Police’ require a cleaning out… a shovelling of a few festering piles of manure…… then his cosy Establishment on the Thames would require isolation and full fumigation.

But THEY just don’t see it!