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@boswelltoday
Jul 11, 2025 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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🧵The Cringe Countdown – Top 10 Most EDI-Obsessed Police Forces in the UK 🇬🇧🚨
Policing, but make it HR.

1/
 Policing used to be about catching criminals.
Now it’s rainbow patrol cars, TikTok dances and HR-approved pronoun badges.
Here’s the Cringe Countdown: the 10 UK police forces most committed to fighting crime... against feelings. 🧵Image
2/
 🔟 @PoliceServiceNI – The Wrap Patrol

PSNI unveiled a rainbow squad car for Belfast Pride so bold it could double as a RuPaul tour bus.
Visibility? Maximum. Deterrence? Minimal.
Still, great photo op.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…
3/
 9️⃣ @NorfolkPolice – 37 Genders Later

Issued staff a guide with 37 identities and the “Genderbread Person.”
Includes “neutrois” and “grey-asexual.”
No arrests made, but several neurons were.

christian.org.uk/news/norfolk-p…
4/
 8️⃣ @cheshirepolice – The Rainbow Rover

Cheshire proudly rolled out the Hate Crime Car™ – a Pride-wrapped police vehicle to make you feel safe while your car gets stolen.
Tactical use? Decorative.

thepinknews.com/2021/08/23/pol…Image
5/
 7️⃣ @BTP – Train to Woke Central

“If you don’t like this flag,” they tweeted, “don’t apply.”
Diversity – but only the approved kind.
Inclusivity score: rainbow. Legal score: pending.

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6/
 6️⃣ @LincsPolice – Strictly Come Policing

Caught on film doing the Macarena in full kit at Lincoln Pride.
Crime scene? Unattended. Rhythm? Impeccable.

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7/
 5️⃣ @MerseyPolice – “Offence is an Offence”

Drove around with a billboard reading: “Being offensive is an offence.”
It isn’t.
They had to retract it. The law remains unoffended.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…Image
8/
 4️⃣ @Humberbeat – The Thought Police Arrive

Investigated a man over a limerick.
Told him to “check his thinking.”
No laws broken. Just hurty feelings.
High Court: “Unlawful.”
Public: “WTF?”

judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…Image
9/
 3️⃣ @sussex_police – Pronouns Over Prison

Defended a convicted male paedophile’s gender identity on Twitter.
Deleted it. Apologised. Even their PCC said they’d “lost the plot.”
Plot still missing.

news.sky.com/story/sussex-p…Image
10/
 2️⃣ @PoliceScotland – Gender First, Victims Second

Recorded male rapists as female if they self-identified.
Eventually reversed course. But not before rape was classed a "woman’s crime."
Policy score: Spectacularly unwise.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2…Image
11/
 1️⃣ @WestYorksPolice – HR with Handcuffs

Temporarily banned white British men from applying to be officers.
Applicants ranked by ethnicity.
Britain’s most EDI-funded force.
Crime prevention? Optional.
yahoo.com/news/police-fo…
And that’s the Cringe Countdown.
Pride patrol cars. Pronoun policing. The Macarena.
In 2025, the only thing being arrested… is reality.

Sure I missed plenty.

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Feb 8
1/10
This is going to sound boring. Websites. PDF links. “403 Forbidden”. Thrilling stuff. But it matters, because it decides whether the public can find what the government has done, or whether you have to already know where to look. Image
2/10
In plain English: some Scottish public-sector websites are set up like a shop with the lights on and the door unlocked… but every aisle has a velvet rope and the staff keep asking why you’re taking notes.
3/10
Humans can usually click around eventually. The problem is everything else - search engines, journalists, researchers, watchdogs, archivists, automated tools. The people who spot patterns. The people who notice what changed.
Read 10 tweets
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Jan 20
1/
 Here’s the Scottish Government’s defence of the policy that can place men in women’s prisons.
They want it treated as normal, lawful and beyond challenge unless a woman has already suffered the consequences.

Receipts below. Image
2/Their opening move is cowardice dressed as procedure.
No named woman. No concrete case. Therefore no problem.
It only counts once a woman has been harmed loudly enough, in court. Image
3/Then they wriggle out of plain meaning.
Single-sex prisons, they say, aren’t actually a rule at all. There is no norm. No baseline. Nothing to protect unless a claim succeeds. Image
Read 10 tweets
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Jan 9
🪡Scotland has been governed for 18 years by people who sell virtue as a brand. The trouble is virtue needs receipts. It needs delivery. It needs records.

This thread lays out the pattern: waste, botched decisions, standards collapsing and accountability that vanishes on contact.

Twenty scandals. One culture.Image
BRANCHFORM

A party that wants more power must first prove it can handle basic money and basic honesty.

Instead we got years of questions about SNP finances, “ring-fenced” funds and missing clarity, then a police investigation that dragged on like a bad smell you can’t air out.

If you can’t run a party properly, you shouldn’t be trusted to run a country indefinitely.Image
FOI

Freedom of Information is meant to be the public’s torch. In Scotland it has too often felt like a wet blanket.

Redactions, “not held”, delays, evasions, endless process. Not once, not twice, but as a habit.

Governments that believe they are doing the right thing don’t fear their own paperwork. Governments that fear the paperwork are telling you something.Image
Read 22 tweets
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Jan 8
1/
 @TheSNP took power in 2007.
After 18 years, Scotland is poorer, sicker, weaker and still being lectured to.
Here’s the record. 🧵 Salmond's 2007 Cabinet
2/
 💉Drug deaths

2007: 455
2024: 1,017
They turned a national emergency into background noise. Scotland became a graveyard and they kept the slogans. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
🏥A&E 4-hour standard

2007: 96% seen within 4 hours
2025: ~69%
The NHS front door is broken. Emergency care now comes with a queue and a gamble.Image
Read 11 tweets
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Jan 2
1/19
Receipts on @bphillipsonMP : a decade of trans messaging, then Supreme Court clarity, then ministerial delay. This is why nothing gets implemented. Image
2/19
This matters because Phillipson now controls the final step: approving the statutory EHRC code that turns law into practice. Until she acts, schools, hospitals and single-sex services are left to guess and carry the legal risk.
3/19
29 June 2010: as a new MP, she pressed witnesses on how to stop trans people being forced to use documents in a previous gender. Early instinct: make the state adapt around gender identity.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cm…Image
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Dec 8, 2025
THREAD: How the Peggie Tribunal Neutralised the For Women Scotland Judgment

1/
 The most revealing part of the Peggie judgment is how the Tribunal handled the @ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling. If you want to understand the institutional resistance women are facing, you start here.Image
2/
 The Tribunal accepts the core holding of FWS without hesitation:
👌“Woman” in the Equality Act means biological female
👌“Biological sex” means sex as recorded at birth
This applies wherever the Act uses those terms
👌They repeat this plainly. No ambiguity. FWS is binding. ✔️
3/
 So far, so sane.
But then comes the manoeuvre.
The Tribunal walls off FWS by declaring that it belongs only to Part 3 of the Equality Act (services), while Peggie’s case falls under Part 5 (employment).
The two parts, the Tribunal insists, are “mutually exclusive.”
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