By Mike Speakman, Retired Deputy Chief Constable Policing, Law & Order Spokesman Many professionals from the police and other public bodies warned against the creation of Police and Crime Commissioners. They warned it would politicise policing, it would undermine the independence of the police and introduce a heavy political element into policing. Not true we…
Over the last few years we have seen increasing examples of how the British Police service has implemented two separate models of policing. This perversion of “one law for all” first became apparent as the grooming gang scandal was exposed in more and more forces across the whole country. It became apparent that these gangs…
Anne Marie Waters September 27th 2020 A policeman has been shot dead in Croydon by a suspect who had been arrested and transported to custody. Somehow, through his arrest and transport, he had managed to conceal a gun to use when he arrived at the station, killing the officer before reportedly turning the gun…
Boris’s announcement that he will use the military to back up the police has quite rightly raised alarm across the political spectrum, and I think shows signs of confusion in the senior ranks of the government. Firstly, I accept that there are not enough police officers to do the job, the consequence of more than…
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order & Policing Spokesman 26th August 2020 I may stray from my usual brief in this blog, but at heart it really is a law and order issue. The country is being undermined from so many different angles that many people, including me, must wonder what is going on. Despite…
By Mike Speakman; Law & Order / Policing Spokesman 24th July 2020 The desire to increase minority representation in the police service is rising up the political agenda, again. I have lost count of the number of times the Home Office has believed the way to improve relations between the police and minority groups is…
By Mike Speakman, Policing and Law & Order Spokesman, ex Deputy Chief Constable. 8th July 2020 We all know about the knife crime epidemic in London, but we never thought it would extend up to the highest ranks of the Metropolitan Police Service. Cressida Dick has stabbed her own officers in the back and then…
Mike Speakman Sunday 21st June 2020 Whilst the deaths and attacks in Reading may not be directly attributable to the preceding Black Lives Matter rally, Black Lives Matter’s rhetoric has created a climate of division based on race which may incite some people to acts of violence against British citizens. The media are providing…
31st May 2020 By Ed, Party Chairman this week as Anne Marie is finishing her new book!). This week has been particularly eventful, at a time when every week seems to bring us increasingly significant news. Anne Marie will be talking about the mainstream media earning the trending hashtag “#ScumMedia” (much to their collective annoyance)…
By Mike Speakman, Nominations Officer 13th May 2020 Anne Marie’s mention of visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp, and the impact it made during her recent livestream prompted a memory. In the early 1970s, I think it was 1972, I went to Denmark with a small group of British Policemen. We went in full uniform and…
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order Spokesman 30th April 2020 There is much speculation about the government’s timing of the lockdown; were they too early or were they too late? Many of the government’s opponents claim they were too late, citing South Korea or Taiwan who were very quick to introduce lockdowns. Taiwan in fact…
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order Spokesman 31st March 2020 From my first day at Police training school in 1968 it was drummed into us that we police with the consent of the public. This central tenet of British Policing remained true throughout my service, and throughout the ranks I achieved. Until recently, the British…
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order Spokesman 31st March 2020 From my first day at Police training school in 1968 it was drummed into us that we police with the consent of the public. This central tenet of British Policing remained true throughout my service, and throughout the ranks I achieved. Until recently, the British…
By Suarav Dutt, Author & Political Analyst 30th March 2020 Guest articles do not necessarily represent the views of The For Britain Movement. Is this really a lockdown? Where are the police vigilance groups making sure Britons aren’t gathering en masse, hosting barbecues in wide open spaces,cramming together in tube carriages without face masks and…
Dr Elle Cockbain is an Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science at University College London. Dr Waqas Tufail is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University. Dr Waqas Tufail’s research interests include policing, anti-Muslim racism, and racialisation. Apparently, Muslims are a race. They have written a report together. We have the perfect…
By Mike Speakman; Retired Deputy Chief Constable, Policing Spokesman 15th February 2020 In recent years, it has sometimes been said, with a sense of irony, that George Orwell’s 1984 was written as fiction, not an implementation manual. This message did not get through to many establishment organisations, including Humberside Police. I served in Humberside Police from…
Response to Boris Johnson stating an additional 20,000 PCs will be recruited. By Andy Thomas 6th February 2020 Andy was a serving officer in a Northern Force for 25 years, uniform, Support Group, CID, Drugs and latterly Intel. Housing officer for 10 yrs working ASB cases in various high crime estates. Married with two children…
Anne Marie Waters February 6th 2020 It is fairly uncontroversial, or should be uncontroversial, for a government’s number one priority to be the safety and well-being of those who elect them. One could make this assumption, but would not always be correct. Today, in the United Kingdom, law and order has quite simply broken…