Police investigate Enoch Powell portrait hung in village shop as ‘hate incident’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/enoch-powell-portrait-hate-incident-cleobury-mortimer-shropshire-mumfords-b2754554.html
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Police investigate Enoch Powell portrait hung in village shop as ‘hate incident’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/enoch-powell-portrait-hate-incident-cleobury-mortimer-shropshire-mumfords-b2754554.html
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It’s not a hate crime, Enoch wasn’t Hitler, he was critical not criminal.
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If people can stop getting so deep into it please.
It’s uncomfortable as some of his predictions are becoming a reality.
Once again, the Police appear allergic to solving real crime.
Can’t say old Enoch was wrong here…
Enoch Powell looking at us from the Overton Window.
The issue is – it’s got a picture of him and the river of blood speech, so if someone reported it, they will investigate. As it’s something in the shop window, they can go to the place and speak to the owner.
I appreciate that you get something nicked and police do nothing if reported – but sometimes there isn’t much they can follow up on.
I do think, just looking at the picture, they had Winston Churchill and “the few” which I think is about the RAF and the Battle of Britain, they also have some flags flying, so they will probably just drop it.
These thing are often a bit of a non story to rile people up, although I will say if it was just the picture and the speech I think it would be easier to interpret as the owner trying to send a message, but the CPS wouldn’t bother unless there were other aggravating factors
Critical thinking has left the room.
“Hate Incident” sounds so dystopian and blunt. They should use the passive voice and call them “Incidents of Hate” and do a gallery like Tony Hart.
Really…? It’s that important? Yes he said stuff that was a bit far, but it’s not like hanging his picture is illegal!
90% of burglaries in the West Midlands Police area go unsolved.
Everyone thought that a real life 1984 would involve a rightwing authoritarian government but who would have guessed it would come from originally well-meaning lefties and their bullshit crusades
The current British police force needs disbanding and gradually replaced to go back to what the original guidelines were.
They’ve gone so far away from what their job actually is, it’s sad .Hitchens explains it better, CBA link, Google it.
Robert Peel specifically set up the modern police to be apolitical. In no way should this be a left VS right or whatever issue.
Winston Churchill will be next…
The cops are absolute cowards – they must be. It’s the only explanation I can think of. Scared to arrest Albanian gangsters but will charge this person with a hate crime just to pad up their arrest stats.
Everything’s being policed except the crime in this country.
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