Trust me, I'm a copper

Last weekend there were disturbances in Bristol, the pictures of which were used to justify the illiberal new Police Act.

At the time the Police said that several officers had suffered broken bones.

Today the Police Force withdrew that statement.

No bones, police or otherwise, were broken.

These are the same forces that attacked miners at Orgreave Colliery, blamed supports for their own deaths at Hillsborough and executed Jean Charles de Menezes for looking foreign and wearing a hoody.

Not all police are evil, most are not. But giving police broad powers to decide what can and cannot take place, not on actual evidence, but on the possibility could very well be turned to political uses. Indeed in the last two weeks we saw protets by women of a murder by a policeman be broken up in London, but men marching through London protesting about measures that saves all our lives was allowed to go ahead.

Increasing powers and criminal charges that arise could very well be used as a pretext to deport people that otherwise have the right to stay here, possibly threatening the lives of EU citizens who already have been through hell and will never have a piece of documented evidence that they have the right to stay, just a record on a Home Office computer.

And now the Home Secretary is planning on more expulsions and repariations, you don't have to be Dominic Cummings to see where this is going.