THE BRITISH INQUISITION

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Labour’s favourite cop, has been found guilty of ‘hanging three white detectives out to dry’ in order to prove his own anti-racist credentials. Or, to put it another way, Sir Ian Blair has been found guilty of anti-English racism.

This stems from a complaint by an Asian police officer who complained that the detectives had used inappropriate language, such as to refer to Muslim headwear as ‘tea cosies’. When a misconduct panel decided that no further action be taken against the detectives, Sir Ian Blair intervened and claimed to have been shocked at the finding, even though he admitted he had never even read it. At the time Sir Ian Blair was in charge of discipline and diversity.

The three detectives were forced to take their case to an employment tribunal, which found that Sir Ian Blair had wanted to make an example of the men. The tribunal also criticised senior officers’ unquestioning acceptance of the allegations made against the detectives.

Glen Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, has called for an end to the ‘culture of hysteria’ regarding race rows in the police.

Meanwhile, Sir Ian Blair has called for 2,000 extra Muslim police officers in an interview with Muslim News: ‘If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means that we are currently 2,000 short’.

In other words, it is business as usual. Sir Ian Blair is not known as ‘Britain’s most politically correct copper’ for nothing.