I have a feeling that you may just have demonstrated a remarkable piece of prescience in that offering 'Tillson'.
Police numbers have been reduced considerably over recent years and it is most likely that in the event of nationwide unrest brought about by the effects of 'Brexit', we would see a situation again not dissimilar to that of the 1984 miners' strike.
The journalist, Paul Starling, reported on the use of army personnel dressed in unmarked police uniforms at Orgreave and elsewhere and he has raised the issue again today. I have no doubt this current government would employ the same tactics again against any threat to their supremacy - it is fascism under the pretence of monarchical democracy. In effect, it is monarchical tyranny!
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Paul Starling. September 13th, 2017. THE 'MILITARISATION' OF BRITAIN. STAGE ONE.
This is 1984. Not Orwell's 1984 but the first outbreak of the 'militarisation' to hit the streets of Britain. I spent the full twelve months covering the miners strike as an Industrial Correspondent on TV. Against great pressures I reported that the army had been drafted in in unmarked police uniforms to smash heads, and the miners strike. I was awarded two national journalism awards for my 'consistently fair, accurate, in depth analysis and coverage'. Take a close look at the 'uniform' front-right of the photo. No police number or identifying marks. Thatcher was also prepared to declare a 'State of Emergency' using troops to 'maintain vital national interests'.
I've chosen 1984 as 'Stage One' because it was the first clear break-out in public of a clandestine strategy started ten years before, in the mid-1970s. That strategy was launched by a group of retired senior Army officers, chief among them one of the men who created the SAS. A maverick, he'd tried a similar strategy in Africa (including South Africa). When it failed he turned back to the politics of Britain. A plot was forged between this 'Army' group and senior Tory figures to blacken senior Labour Government Cabinet members, senior Trades Union officials, and others. The aim, to destroy the Labour Government, castrate union power and enforce a Tory government on Britain.
Within five years, it had worked. In 1979 Thatcher swept to power. Within another five years the strongest union, the National Union of Mineworkers was targeted, smashed, and crushed. In the process ALL union resistance was undermined, too.
In 1982 Thatcher, secretly, insisted that British power stations stockpile millions of tons of coal. It was a preparation for 'war' at home
In 1983 Thatcher won power again after throwing Britain's military might to the Falkland Islands. Why? Because she was heading for political defeat at the forthcoming General Election and a display of military power abroad was an early warning of that 'military' action at home.
The Miners Strike in 1984 was THE moment for Thatcher and her 'Generals' to do the 'striking'.
The tactical strategy involved, secretly, throwing millions of pounds of Government money to infiltrate unions, pit communities, and bankroll a breakaway mining union to split the miners. Shadowy figures were organised from one of the capital's best-known 'Gentleman's Clubs', and from a suite in London's most expensive hotel. Key figures in the unions and mining were targeted, blackened or bought off with either money or promises. (All of them ended up later either 'honoured', disgraced, isolated, or betrayed).
Look carefully at the 'uniform' right/front of the photo. There are no numbers or anything to identify the person in 'uniform'. Then look closely at the other unmarked 'uniforms' around him. Drafted on to the streets of Britain to smash heads and smash resistance. The early stages of what was and is a deliberate Tory policy of 'MILITARISATING BRITAIN'.
MORE TO FOLLOW.
Perhaps Stage Two?
Tom
When you think about this government's recent relationship with the police this 2% rise seems rather sinister to me.
It started with the humiliation of David Cameron over the Sheehy report when he was a Home Office Shitmuncher. He never forgave the police for that. Then they were further humiliated over Pleb Gate and the resignation of Andrew Mitchell.
Payback came in the form of the Ginger Tom (Tom Windsor), a specialist lawyer with expertise in transferring public sector departments into the hands of private, for profit, organisations. Organisations such as those who Mrs May's husband has an interest in for instance ( Group 4).
With the Tory government's blessing, Ginger Tom instantly stripped £1100 per year from every officer who had served for more than 14 years. That £1100 had been subjected to final salary pension contributions and those contributions were also effectively stolen.
Next, junior officers who thought they had embarked on a 30 year career, suddenly found themselves having to work for 40 years for a less generous pension.
In return for a less generous pension, contributions went up by 4%, which is effectively a further pay cut on top of the £1100 already stolen.
In addition, overtime rates of pay were cut and allowances for extended duty times were cut.
I have no particular liking of the police and I only mention this to illustrate how spiteful this government are and how they capitalise on weak industrial rights. I think they would like to manoeuvre all workers into a similar industrial rights situation to the police so that they can bully them with ease.
So, after all of the venom, spite and vengeance, why are the police suddenly the government's friends? Why 2% for them and only 1.7% for the prison officers? Why 2% for the police and a 1% cap for nurses, teachers etc? It can only mean one thing, they are going to want heads breaking in the coming months, either as a result of BREXIT or an assault on unions or both.
