"Met tries to distract from its own horrendous recent record, while pitching for yet more power to clamp down on whoever they feel like"
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49 rapes by ONE cop. Never forget.
I mean…good? People work with oil because it’s cheap. If protests are a way of making it costly, then it’s doing its job.
Why is the default thought to just “Wait until the protests are over”?
I want to say this makes me happy but who am I kidding, the Met's obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.
Well, just stop oil then :)
That's still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov't and population.
Definitely - but that's 15% of the Mets budget. Screwed up as it is, it's also underfunded, and the result is that Londoners who are most affected by crime - predominantly low-income - will pay for this
Those are rookie numbers; gotta pump those numbers up.
Oh no... Anyway
I’m sure they can sell or loan of one or two stolen artifacts to pay for what amounts to a drop of money in their annual spending.
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