Thread by @AlastairMorgan

Cressida Dick is a person of interest to me, to use police- speak. She and I have what I would describe as unfortunate relationship. I won't bore anyone with a detailed history, but my conclusions are:

1) that she has shown sub-zero willingness to cooperate with the DMIP,

2) She is not a progressive Commissioner of Police in my experience. All of her actions say that she is doing her utmost to prevent and/or delay public insight into what I would describe as some very, very perverted and disturbing policing and its multiple nasty spin-offs.

3) In other words, she is acting like "a copper's copper" as Lord "Swifty" Stevens (a deeply unpleasant chap, in my view) liked to style himself.

When it comes to the public looking in some of the Yard's more nasty, dirty closets where their "relationship"...

....with some of the dirtiest elements of organised crime and the Murdoch press are involved, and how its leadership has lied to or knowingly misled my family, MPs, ministers, the public and even parliament I also strongly suspect high-level perjury at the Leveson Inquiry.

In other words, a "highly regrettable" state of affairs.

I can sympathise with Ms Dick insofar as why would any Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis relish being shown (some) the absolute dirtiest dregs of the policing on her watch. It's just that personal interests.....

.....and preferences and politicised policing don't really cut the mustard for me in these circumstances.

So, so far so bad imo.

She won't succeed, I hasten to add. I've become almost totally inured to dealing with crap from the British police. It's become "normalised" like so much other discreditable, nasty stuff in our public life. I now regard this as "normal" police behaviour, sadly.

On a separate note. Tories. Given their own government's impact assessment on May's deal, i.e. truly catastrophic effects on some parts of the country, and a hit to overall GDP of 6-7%, you don't have to be very clever to imagine how this will hit the poorest in our society.....

I think to gamble, like sharks, with the lives and well being of the most vulnerable, given the picture their own fucking projections outline is clinically heartless and despicable. It makes me feel physically sick to contemplate.

And yet here we are.

And what next?

I think Nye Bevan's description of the Tories as "lower than vermin" has never rung more true.

A public largely under the spell of a man whose only loyalty is to himself and the acquisition of as much power as he can get: a turncoat, serial liar, serial adulterer and a man who connived with his fraudster friend Darius Guppy to have a journalist beaten up.