Reply to: Should Ian Blair resign?

[wendigo100]

The Ian Blair thing for some reason reminds me of David Beckham after he got sent off in the 98 World Cup. Everybody hated him and was calling for him to quit, but he didn't, he kept his head down, played well and by 2002 everybody was loving him.

Likewise it looks ropey for Sir Ian now that he's just been responsible for killing your average Joe tube-user, but as long as he spends the next four years killing loads of actual terrorists and hardly any non-terrorists, I'm sure the nation will take him to their hearts again, and be singing songs about him when the pubs shut.

For Ian Blair it's not just one incident.

Gaffes up to last year

[Lambros]

The way I feel about this situation, every one of them that participated in this sordid affair should be made to resign; not just Blair.

This killing hurt me as though it was a relative of mine. I can well imagine what the de Menezes family had gone through when they received this horrific news.

[thunderlizard]

The Ian Blair thing for some reason reminds me of David Beckham after he got sent off in the 98 World Cup. Everybody hated him and was calling for him to quit, but he didn't, he kept his head down, played well and by 2002 everybody was loving him.

Likewise it looks ropey for Sir Ian now that he's just been responsible for killing your average Joe tube-user, but as long as he spends the next four years killing loads of actual terrorists and hardly any non-terrorists, I'm sure the nation will take him to their hearts again, and be singing songs about him when the pubs shut.

[wendigo100]

I'd rather sack the rozzers who changed log books and gave false evidence.

And whoever was responsible for denying all those 19 charges in court, as if they did nothing wrong.

Ian Blair? Not sure, but he does have form for being an onanist.

[Denny]

Yes, I think he should. The entire shooting episode was a shambles from start to finish and, to boot, the police covered up their mistakes with so many lies. That alone is enough to justify his resignation.

[Clippy]

Yes, but you are Clippy

No, I'm Spartacus.

[AtW]

LOL, I'm not Damp Cave.

Yes, but you are Clippy

[GreenerGrass]

Pretty pathetic when you have to start replying to one of your pseudonyms posts to get your point across.

LOL, I'm not Damp Cave.

[Clippy]

Good point, most people wouldn't recognise a single face of those that were blown up. J D M has had nearly as much exposure as the McCanns, his face has been in the news more than Osama Bin Laden.

I bet the Muslim Council of Britain is gutted he is Brazillian, he would have been a fantastic victim to have on board.

Pretty pathetic when you have to start replying to one of your pseudonyms posts to get your point across.

[GreenerGrass]

An accident has received more media attention than the total of 52 lives lost a few weeks before

Good point, most people wouldn't recognise a single face of those that were blown up. J D M has had nearly as much exposure as the McCanns, his face has been in the news more than Osama Bin Laden.

I bet the Muslim Council of Britain is gutted he is Brazillian, he would have been a fantastic victim to have on board.

[Lambros]

"In blocking the IPCC investigation, he Sir Ian placed himself above the law and in clear breach of his statutory duties and the will of Parliament. The effect has been to discredit the Metropolitan Police on the basis of inferences that may not be true and cannot now be properly resolved," he wrote.

A police spokesman said Sir Ian made clear last week he would "not make the same decision again in similar circumstances". But his decision was made "with the best of motives that the rigorous investigation needed to be fully co-ordinated with the needs of the counter terrorism investigation to track down the suicide bombers".

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...%27/article.do

[Damp Cave]

Of course not

This is the result of the fascist state with its Rottweiler media, not many give a hoot about this story. The only bit missing from this Nazi Governments credentials is any sort of pride in the country or its people. An accident has received more media attention than the total of 52 lives lost a few weeks before and the plethora of subsequent attempts to bomb the feck out of us, the confusion from which contributed heavily to said accident in the first place.

[Gold Dalek]

Today the Independent Police Complaints Commission is to publish its report on the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/new...7084299&news=1

Such things have happened before and will happen again. Is the media frenzy because Charles de Menezes isn't white?

The man shot in the ambush was later named as Stephen Waldorf.
Film editor Mr Waldorf, 26, had no direct connection to David Martin.

But police believed his female passenger, Sue Stephens, to be Mr Martin's girlfriend.

Two officers, John Jardine and Peter Finch, stood trial for attempted murder and attempted wounding but were cleared of all charges in October 1983.

The pair remained in the police force but were barred from firearm duties.
Stephen Waldorf made a full recovery and eventually received £150,000 compensation.

[Churchill]

I was just trying to apply the new CUK health and safety standards.

Anyway - I live in SE London. Where being racist is taught in schools.

Sar Feast Larndan?

It even sounds foreign!

[BrilloPad]

Racist bastard!

Note for hard of thinking: I know it wasn't a racist statement...

I was just trying to apply the new CUK health and safety standards.

Anyway - I live in SE London. Where being racist is taught in schools.