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…