Standby for action!

Many people suffer from nuisance crimes such as vandalism. Many people are left waiting and frustrated when the police tell them there's nothing they can (be bothered) to do about it.

However I have a feeling an almighty investigation will be carried out by Greater Manchester Police, as Hazel Blears has had her tyres slashed.

This is of course the very same Hazel Blears who made a killing on the sale of her main/second home (depending on whether she is talking to the tax man or the fees office) and then appeared on telly waving a cheque around whilst overflowing with denial and faux apologies. (Incidentally, does anyone know what happened to that cheque? Did she actually send it and did HMRC accept it?)

So now we will see just what the police can do about nuisance crime. To be fair to the government though, I suppose they expect special treatment from the police, because what's the point in having a paramilitary wing if they don't look after you?

Compare and contrast

Last week, Inspector Knacker of the Yard announced that the Met police are finally to investigate some of the fraudulent expense claims made by MPs.

As I write this, precisely nothing has been done; no MPs have been arrested , no offices have been raided, no IT equipment seized, no nothing. This is also about a month after the Torygraph started exposing MPs' astonishing troughing.

Now contrast this with the Damien Green debacle, where the opposition MP was arrested after having his office raided by 6 Met coppers (without a warrant, of course).

Now of course Damien Green was not alleged to have stolen a fortune off of the taxpayer, he was alleged to have leaked documents to the press that were very embarrassing to the government. Much worse. Get in there plod!

If we compare the incredibly zealous and fast-acting police action taken against Green with the complete inaction of the Met with regards to the thieving cheating MPs, I think it paints a good picture of how the police view the taxpayer as opposed to their political masters.

What really worries me, is that the police can't see the difference in these two cases, or why the public were outraged with Green getting done-over by the Labour party's paramilitary wing, but were pissed off with the very same police 'service' happily turning a blind eye to MPs stealing from the public purse. The normally semi-sensible Inspector Gadget just couldn't get his head around it. In that post he boasts about how the police have heroically tackled that nasty Green, but up until the Met's announcement he and his fellow plods were absolutely adamant that no MPs should face action for their fraud.
Hmmmm, there must be a bit of work involved in those fraud investigations....

That worries me.