Why on earth would the Metropolitan Police ask Sue Gray to redact key parts of her independent report?

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  1. Is it an independent report? A report ordered by Boris, into Boris, by Boris’s mate, that was at Boris’s party, being silenced by Boris’s police. Whole things a smoke screen for the death of british democracy. We should be rioting, the French would be lopping heads off by now, we are sat around drinking tea saying “its all been jolly peculiar this past few years hasn’t it?“

  2. Because they’re running a live criminal investigation.

    Her report will go out to the public and prejudice any jury they could pull together to try said offences – if they’re that serious.

    Because it gives a nice head start to those named in the report to destroy evidence before plod comes knocking with a search warrant.

  3. Not the answer I expect or want, but as ever the secret barrister at least gives a reasoning for a lot of things that I wouldn’t be seeing otherwise.

  4. Is anyone even remotely surprised? This is Inquiries 101 from the government. Boris is carefully managing this so that the report is delayed and messed with for as long as possible so that it can eventually be released strategically to do the minimum amount of damage. All the while he’ll appear quite distanced from this and be expressing his regrets that the report can’t be released any quicker.

    And in the meantime all we can do is sit around like chumps watching the farce unfold.

  5. The reasoning does make sense. The issue is that the met has had ample opportunity to conduct and finish their investigation. If they need more time to gather un-influenced witness statements then there is no reason that cannot be finished within the next week and we can get the unredacted report.

  6. Never underestimate the fortune to be won from professional bumbling and incompetence.

    Johnson and Carrie must be crying in relief.

  7. The hesitancy to call this a stitch up would be sensible if it weren’t for the fact that just last year Cressida Dick was was lambasted for hampering a home office investigation into the Met’s handling of the Daniel Morgan murder.

  8. Why to protect the clown and his parties why else, unless officers were at the parties having a knees up

  9. Never start an inquiry if you don’t know what the outcome would be – Humphrey, Yes Prime Minister.

    Fck this topic, billions of our money have gone to Tory chaps and we have to pay it back from April with tax hike. Wake up people, this whole party saga is distraction.

  10. History – Cameron, May, Johnson. Basically corruption – what they do is threaten the met to starve their funds, if they investigate. Then starve their funds anyway, Then DICK! Gets classed as a dame – corruption. This isn’t a case of ohhhh, it’s all a conspiracy the new world order bullshit, half of downing street, news, police, medical, landlords are fucking each other. If they bring down one – half their families would be convicted lol

  11. I’m being positive and assuming that there is more meat to this report where it goes from being a civil case to a criminal case and the Met want to avoid anything that can influence a jury.

    The only other explanation is that Cressida Dick is under Boris’ thumb and they’re taking the meaty bits out of the report to save him.

  12. Here’s why.

    The Met says don’t publish anything in the report that covers parties they are investigating.

    This will be spun so that nothing in the report is released. The claim will be that even publishing findings on parties the police aren’t investigating may still colour or prejudice the investigations.

    Then the police investigation will conclude; there will be no charges.

    Then the report still won’t come out.

  13. We need a protest like the French. Truth is, the British are too fickle these days. Our possessions have come to own us and our lives are so cushy we won’t risk them for our right to protest.

  14. The answer is that the Met wants to bury Sue Gray’s report and the evidence that she obtained from her interviews. The Met are now proceeding by issuing £100 fines for attending an illegal gathering. What happens next is that the recipients pay up and the matter against them is closed. Crucially, the Met does not interview them. Then, with all the potential witnesses against Johnson out of the picture, they will not proceed against him.

  15. There was a time when conservatives were considered to be holders of the rule of law, and that’s why boomers voted for them.

    Now boomers vote for a party that ****s over every generation after them, and to avoid the rule of law so that they can keep their cushty life whilst the rest of us suffer. Can’t wait till that generation dwindles in numbers and we can finally start to get a normal government in, but at this rate boomers policies will be killing off millenials before they get in their coffin.

  16. Here is a summary of that somewhat poorly written piece. The Metropolitan police might have a good reason for wanting Gray’s report to be redacted. That possible good reason is as follows. An unredacted version of the report might allow law-breakers the better to lie when investigated by the police.

  17. I know what you mean, I’ve lost count of the number of times in the last 12 months I’ve gone off on a rant about some police bullshit or other, usually the Met, and I’ve not traditionally thought of myself as anti-establishment or anti-police in any way!

  18. How long can the Conservative Party keep BoJo in place to pin all the shit on?

    They’ll keep him there until there’s not a single member of the public with any sympathy for him, then bin him and pin all the blame for COVID, Brexit, austerity, collapse of the social state, etc. on him. That will allow his replacement to be “the redeemer” and probably win the next election.

  19. Also I thought the Sue Grays report was specifically restricted from covering criminal activity (ie anything the met would cover). It had a very narrow remit.

  20. Quite angry about this, because you know if this was you in your workplace that you would be dismissed straight away.

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