howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#2
The talents and experience of Hogan-Howe are obvious but Sir Hugh Orde was unsuccessful because he spoke his mind about the PM,Home Office and City Hall.
Orde had precisely the qualities required to head the Met and an opportunity has been missed because the relevant powers were unable to admit they were wrong and knew they would not be able to bully him.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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It is a poisoned chalice, dreadful time to take over.
Audere est facere.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#4
This is just what London needs, a Met chief who is determined to enforce zero tolerance on crime.
Lads, forwards march!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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#5
looks like boris missed making a name for himself
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
they all talk the talk, basically getting to the top in the police involves playing clever politics.
i suspect that the candidate that was most amenable to cuts in police budgets would get the job.
answering back to political masters is a definite no no.
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#7
It appears Boris and Flashman are playing .......One for you One for me..............It will not stay that way!
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Possibly the coming Olympics played a great role in the decision:
the Government wants to make sure that London is a safe place to be in, so I envisage criminals having a very, very hard time, if they continue along their path of crime.
It seems clear to me that Gov. will give full support to the Met in this respect, and perhaps will create e few new prisons to cope with a new influx of criminals after sentencing.
Let's sincerely hope that law and order is brought to London's streets.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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reg
how right you are, boris i believe is waiting the knives to get sharper, then he will steo in when cameron reaches even low of the low(nearly there already) theres so much going wrong for this cobbled together govt
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Cobbled together government or not, it won't stop the Police, and in this respect, "Boris marry me" doesn't even come into it!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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alex
there may well be a clamp down for the olympics what about before and after though?
be assured that there will be no more prisons places either, the blues are committed to letting criminals go free.
the sentences for the riots were about short term popularity nothing else.
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In that case, Howard, the idea of going to prison might be less appealing, if the prisons become over-crowded!
As for the Olympics, they're just round the corner, so I guess the Police will be already thinking how to clamp down hard on crime and gangs.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Weird Granny Slater
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#15
Funny
All those years ago Howard raised this issue , and today we are still talking about it.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#16
We've been talking about Met Commissioners since 1839!
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#17
That's good then
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Captain Haddock
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Whilst one suspects there is no way the new Commissioner will reflect the 'average' Londoner by being male, white, straight and not following some exotic religion, I can but dream of a Quattro being fired up .......................
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:Whilst one suspects there is no way the new Commissioner will reflect the 'average' Londoner by being male, white, straight and not following some exotic religion, I can but dream of a Quattro being fired up .......................
Blimey. Amazing how they voted Sadiq Khan in then.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Could be a fall out between home office minister and London mayor
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