{"id":598523,"date":"2025-11-28T04:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:30:30","slug":"lawless-uk-farage-wants-brits-to-think-so-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598523\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawless UK? Farage wants Brits to think so \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is undoubtedly the case that there is a bit of a mismatch on some of the perceptions versus the reality, but I think if you walk through the streets and you see rubbish in the streets, you can smell cannabis, you talk to a shopkeeper who\u2019s just had somebody steal something, your bike gets stolen and the police don\u2019t come and talk to you about it, of course that\u2019s not right, and we need to fix all of those things,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Delivering on the promise<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a steady drumbeat of stuff coming up,\u201d said one government official involved in discussions about the strategy, who was not authorized to speak on the record.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve got to make a really persuasive case about the work that is going on to combat [street crime].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reform UK can \u201cwhinge all they want,\u201d the official said. \u201cWe\u2019re focused on governing and getting our heads down and really trying to solve this problem, as opposed to shouting from the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The upcoming announcements are likely to be focused on police reform \u2014 not on big spending. | George Wood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

But the upcoming announcements are likely to be focused on police reform \u2014 not on big spending. Police chiefs warned in June that their funding settlement from the Treasury would not be enough to fund the government\u2019s ambitions.<\/p>\n

Instead, there\u2019s been reallocation. The government has already announced plans to ax directly elected police and crime commissioners \u2014 who have spent the past decade setting budgets, appointing chief constables and producing policing plans, but with limited democratic take-up. That role will be transferred to existing mayors or council leaders in a bid to \u201ccut the cost of unnecessary bureaucracy\u201d and invest back in the front lines.<\/p>\n

Alastair Greig, research analyst for the Organised Crime and Policing Team (OCP) at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, said \u200b\u200bit was important to recognize the \u201cprioritization and the policy decisions that are involved if police decide to really meaningfully crack down on this street crime.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is undoubtedly the case that there is a bit of a mismatch on some of the perceptions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,32,393,4884,40,807,25809,384,1144,2453,14252,70633,712,60422,16,15,49,1764,98158],"class_list":{"0":"post-598523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-mayors","16":"tag-nigel-farage","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-policing","19":"tag-sadiq-khan","20":"tag-sarah-jones","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-shabana-mahmood","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-westminster-insider"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115625448839800020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}