THE BRITISH INQUISITION

The Metropolitan Police is to hire a team of 24 ‘diversity advisers’ as a new ‘citizen focus’ squad to instruct the police on issues of race and gay rights. The advisers are to be paid £35,000 per annum. Once expenses and pensions are taken into account, the annual costs exceeds £1million.

The advisers will be recruited from independent advisory groups set up in response to the Macpherson report. In other words, they will be politically correct.

This is the latest initiative from Sir Ian Blair, the new police commissioner, who has long been a supporter of the gay lobby, and is known as Labour’s favourite cop.

A police spokesman said: ‘Citizen Focus Teams are part of the Diversity Directorate re-structuring to meet the new challenges in delivering policing to diverse communities’.

No doubt we will soon be hearing lots more about how institutionally racist the police are.