“I don’t think so, mate”
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The callous “I don’t think so” response from one of the Hampshire Police Officers attending to the dying Henry Nowak has now become a meme now and the image above struck me as quite powerful.
The political class are determined to stop us discussing this issue and indeed they are trying to call us “far right” because we have been horrified at the police response to Henry’s death AND the police response to it.
As further evidence of the Two Tier policing that the establishment DENY, have a read of this
A supermarket founder has joined the furious row over two-tier policing by revealing a member of staff was handcuffed in store because of a malicious racism accusation. Iceland founder Sir Malcolm Walker said he made a formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police after one of his staff was seized by officers when a customer made a phoney allegation of racist abuse.
Sir Malcolm revealed the Asian store supervisor had remonstrated with a black customer who had been tampering with milk bottles in the supermarket. The knighted entrepreneur said that after the customer phoned the police and made a false allegation of racism police arrived in “three minutes” and handcuffed the staff member.
Galled by the police response to the incident, Sir Malcolm told the Mail on Sunday “two-tier policing isn’t just happening on the streets” and pointed out officers often don’t bother to attend when staff have been attacked or threatened with violence by shoplifters.
The charge of racism is so powerful and enshrined in British Policing guidance that it has effectively disabled common sense policing. Two Tier Policing was evident in the aftermath of the Southport protests following the slaughter of three little girls by a 2nd generation Rwandan migrant in 2024 and we see it yet again in the Nowak killing.
But where did this all start?
Well, it seems to me that the 1999 MacPherson Report is the seminal document. This followed the 1993 killing of young black man Stephen Lawrence and it concluded that the Metropolitan Police was institutionally racist. I think this was what the Blair Government wanted to hear and it established the principle that if you SAY something is racist then it Is racist. This is obviously untrue but nonetheless that is the principle that MacPherson gifted us. And decades on it is used by predators to frame themselves as innocent because of a perceived or even invented “racism” charge.
I can remember at the time being horrified at the MacPherson Report and how the BBC eulogised this nonsense as if it were Holy Writ. It’s my view that the Macpherson Report was flawed due to its vague and overly broad definition of “institutional racism,” which relied on circular reasoning and made the label almost impossible to disprove. It also over-attributed police failures in the Stephen Lawrence case to racism, downplaying basic incompetence and systemic issues that affected investigations regardless of race. In short it was a hot mess but it became the standard for British Policing.
Does racism exist? Yes, of course it does and in all races. Are there some bad apples in the Met, yes of course and they must be weeded out. But it’s a long stretch from THAT to police officers going around believing every claim of “racial abuse” without questioning it. If you talk to serving Police Officers, they will candidly admit that their biggest fear is that their career will be ended by them ignoring a claim of “racism” or “Racist Abuse”. So the rot is deep, pernicious and it all started with MacPherson in 1999.
