Undemocratic issues

The Metropolitan Police announced last night they would nto be investiagting the "party" or "parties" in Downing Street as there was no evidence.

This despite there being actual Police Officers from The Met at either end of Downing Street and anyone coming and going needed a pass and there would have been a record of all of them entering and leaving the building.

Cressida Rose Dick, That's Dame Cressida Rose Dick, Commissioner of The Met has had a cntroversial career, as her Wikki Page points out:

"Dick's career has included certain crises and controversies,[1] as well as a series of career comebacks.[2] In 2005, she headed the operation which led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. A subsequent review faulted the MPS for lapses, but Dick was cleared of personal blame in a 2007 trial. As commissioner, she has overseen a service affected by cuts to police budgets and staffing levels. Controversial aspects of Dick's tenure include: the Met's use of stop and search tactics; the handling of recommendations made after the botched Operation Midland; in 2021, arrests of attendees at a candlelight vigil for Sarah Everard and complaints by the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel that she obstructed their inquiry into police corruption."

And the Home Secretary decided not to remove her from her post.

She has now refused to investigate the very people who chose not to remove her from her post.

How very convenient.

Johnson is a former journalist, has many friends still who are journalists, he was editor of the Spectator magazine, his friends are married, they are each others' godparents to each others' children. It is a mess and web of friendship that has profound implications for our democracy, when the Police and Press are two of the pillars that support demcoracy. If neither are working as they should in hoolding the Executive to account, then no one can.

And with Johnson's actions in curtailing scrutiny in repact of Judicial Review, Freedome of Information, use of SIs to pass legislation, very worrying ammendments in the Policie and Senticing Bill that can remove the right to protest or free assembly, and in other illiberal laws, can remove citizenship from first generation immigrants without notice or warning, and the plan to leave the ECHR and refuse any kind of refugees.

This is what the country now is.