Sir Nicholas Winterton, Tory MP for Macclesfield really deserves our sympathy.
He has just been told he can only claim the cost of a Standard Class train ticket when travelling between London and his constituency.
Bless him!
In the hope I cam be of some help to the beleaguered gentleman, I have done a minute's research.
Standard Class from Euston to Macclesfield after school at Westminster throws out on Friday evening (peak time) will cost £52.50 whereas First Class will cost £74.00.
That's a difference of £21.50! Scandalous!
Actually, what is really scandalous is that this croaking comes from someone who is apparently well versed in the art of milking the public purse.
He and his MP wife were recently rumbled, having claimed £41,508 and £41,584 respectively in rent on a flat which was owned by a trust controlled by their children. Trustees? Sir Nicholas Winterton, his wife and their solicitor.
Out of all that wonga, you would think he would be able to stump up the additional £21.50 without our help.
On the other hand though, it is not merely a matter of funds. As Sir Nicholas pointed out; he needs to travel First Class as the people that travel in the other parts of the train are riff-raff.
To be fair, he didn't actually say that. What he did say was:
"They are a totally different type of people. There's lots of children, there's noise, there's activity. I like to have peace and quiet when I'm travelling."
Riff-raff, in other words!
He also said:
"They want to stop Members of Parliament travelling first class. That puts us below local councillors and officers of local government. They all travel first class. Majors in the army travel first class. So we are supposed to stand when there are no seats. I’m sorry, it infuriates me.”
Sir Nicholas, think on this; people such as Majors and local government officers have trained and worked hard to achieve their status. You didn't; you were elected by a group of citizens who were possibly fooled into thinking you were off to Westminster to do them some good when it transpires you wheedled your way into the job in order to line your own pockets and to satisfy some narcissistic compulsion to be seen as an "important person".
You are not.
Now, sod off quietly into the sunset. Roll on the general election when you retire and give us a break.
Come to that, why wait? Retire now.
Go!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Ali Dizaei; part 2
It seems it never stops, once something begins to unravel.
In this instance, the unravelling relates to the strange nether world inhabited by Dizaei and his ilk.
A few years ago, the Met Police spent an awful lot of money on Operation Helios.
This operation stemmed not from the fact that they jsut had a few quid left over in the kitty. This operation stemmed from some serious concerns raised by the Serious Organised Crime Agency about his conduct. The concerns were passed on to the Met's anti-corruption unit. Shortly after that, Dizaei went up for his second promotion board and "got the job". This despite the observation by a Deputy Assistant Commissioner following his interview as "the most rude and arrogant man she had ever met".
While serving with Thames Valley police, a Met Police informant told of allegations that Dizaei was "involved in drugs, interfering win court cases for money and consorting with prostitutes. Nothing came of these allegations and Dizaei was allowed to go on his merry way. Soon after this, he was transferred to the Met.
Again, allegations were made to Thames Valley about his conduct and these were passed to the Met. Operation Helios began soon after that.
The allegations and concerns about Dizaei were taken seriously enough that over 1,000 wire-taps were put in place, from which evidence arose of Dizaei's involvement with foreign embassies.
He was a frequent visitor to the Iranian embassy where he apparently had meetings in a high security room.
He also allegedly drove a car belonging to the Liberian embassy, with the accompanying diplomatic plates no doubt.
During Operation Helios, Dizaei had a good laugh at the investigating officers regarding the Iranian embassy visits. He claimed they were all announced by him before hand.
Yeah, well, if that was the case, why is it that one of the triggers for Operation Helios was an allegation of him spying for the Iranians? Smoke...Fire...?
Operation Helios suffered an ignominious defeat somewhere between all the thousands of hours of surveillance and the case's arrival at CPS and the High Court.
Subsequent to that collapse, an inquiry was held into the operation and found that the Met had been rather jolly unfair cads and bounders. The good, honest and upright citizen Dizaei had been prosecuted because of his race. Still laughing about that conclusion are we Sir William Morris?
During the trial and again during the inquiry and yet again in a attempt to get a High Court injunction on Dizaei's behalf prior to the court appearances resulting from Operation Helios, the CPS had the following to say:
"When one looks at the fruits of Operation Helios: cocaine, steroids, threats to an ex-girl friend, admission of wrong-doing apparently violence to the boy friend of an ex-girl friend, concerns that he had connections to the Iranian Intelligence Service, assisting the xxxx sisters to remain in the United Kingdom for payment of money, a cheque identified from one of them to be paid into his account, an envelope given to him in the course of his assisting xxxx with the arrangement of police assistance at a Fulham hotel, £500 paid to him for assisting xxx with her visa application, associating with xxx thought to be involved with smuggling illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom, associating with xxxx, yyyy and zzzz, suspected advance fee fraudsters, his very close friendship with xxx who had tried to deposit £2million in a bank in the most suspicious circumstances and agreeing to assist xxx by adding his legitimacy to a conference, interfering with police investigations and disclosing information from those investigations, suggesting to xxx the various options available to xxx accused of damaging a car, interfering with that investigation by bullying yyyy, agreeing to assist xxxx who was under investigation for assaulting a traffic warden, ineterfing with xxxx licence application by deliberately flouting a command not to be involved, but going on to do so.
Receiving £800 from xxxx in return for advice on providing a defence on a drink-drive charge, and meeting that accused person while on bail and receiving 7 free concert tickets each of which was nominally worth £500 when he was responsible for policing that concert."
They then go on to say that this was "some, but not all, of the material received during the Helios investigation".
The Morris inquiry has published most of its findings on line. An interesting Appendix is this submission by Dizaei himself:
http://www.mpa.gov.uk/morrisinquiry/downloads/evidence-axd-00.pdf
It is heavy going, reading through the whole bloody thing but at the end, you will be left with the impression that here was a barrack room lawyer of the first order. A whinging, so and so who looks as if he was weaving the strands of potential rabble rousing, even as a police probationer.
As for the Iranian embassy connection, how about this for a potent brew:
NBPA and their alleged "values" (anti-racism); Dizaei's use of the NBPA as a platform for his tub thumping; Iranian president, Ach Me Dinner Jacket and his pronouncements that Israel must be wiped off the face of the planet. Now, it seems to me that a view such as that held and publicly declared by the Iranian president is somewhat racist. The very thing Dizaei and the NBPA vow to fight against.
Well check out this picture:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/10/article-1249775-08320287000005DC-352_468x398.jpg
Our good old friend Dizaei, addressing a conference in Iran in support of Ach Me Dinner Jacket's presidential "election" campaign. This at a time when he was suspended from the Met.
Thanks to the Daily Mail for that snap. It is part of a larger item on the outrageous behaviour of Dizaei:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249775/The-day-General-Dizaei-met-Iranian-president-guess-paid-trip.html
Finally, yet another Daily Mail link (and I thought I was crusading!):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249613/Ali-Dizaei-faces-sack-weeks-receiving-year-term-framing-innocent-man.html
PS All the xxxx, yyy etc above is a result of names having been blacked out in the transcripts.
London in nto infested with hordes of people with the surname xxx!
In this instance, the unravelling relates to the strange nether world inhabited by Dizaei and his ilk.
A few years ago, the Met Police spent an awful lot of money on Operation Helios.
This operation stemmed not from the fact that they jsut had a few quid left over in the kitty. This operation stemmed from some serious concerns raised by the Serious Organised Crime Agency about his conduct. The concerns were passed on to the Met's anti-corruption unit. Shortly after that, Dizaei went up for his second promotion board and "got the job". This despite the observation by a Deputy Assistant Commissioner following his interview as "the most rude and arrogant man she had ever met".
While serving with Thames Valley police, a Met Police informant told of allegations that Dizaei was "involved in drugs, interfering win court cases for money and consorting with prostitutes. Nothing came of these allegations and Dizaei was allowed to go on his merry way. Soon after this, he was transferred to the Met.
Again, allegations were made to Thames Valley about his conduct and these were passed to the Met. Operation Helios began soon after that.
The allegations and concerns about Dizaei were taken seriously enough that over 1,000 wire-taps were put in place, from which evidence arose of Dizaei's involvement with foreign embassies.
He was a frequent visitor to the Iranian embassy where he apparently had meetings in a high security room.
He also allegedly drove a car belonging to the Liberian embassy, with the accompanying diplomatic plates no doubt.
During Operation Helios, Dizaei had a good laugh at the investigating officers regarding the Iranian embassy visits. He claimed they were all announced by him before hand.
Yeah, well, if that was the case, why is it that one of the triggers for Operation Helios was an allegation of him spying for the Iranians? Smoke...Fire...?
Operation Helios suffered an ignominious defeat somewhere between all the thousands of hours of surveillance and the case's arrival at CPS and the High Court.
Subsequent to that collapse, an inquiry was held into the operation and found that the Met had been rather jolly unfair cads and bounders. The good, honest and upright citizen Dizaei had been prosecuted because of his race. Still laughing about that conclusion are we Sir William Morris?
During the trial and again during the inquiry and yet again in a attempt to get a High Court injunction on Dizaei's behalf prior to the court appearances resulting from Operation Helios, the CPS had the following to say:
"When one looks at the fruits of Operation Helios: cocaine, steroids, threats to an ex-girl friend, admission of wrong-doing apparently violence to the boy friend of an ex-girl friend, concerns that he had connections to the Iranian Intelligence Service, assisting the xxxx sisters to remain in the United Kingdom for payment of money, a cheque identified from one of them to be paid into his account, an envelope given to him in the course of his assisting xxxx with the arrangement of police assistance at a Fulham hotel, £500 paid to him for assisting xxx with her visa application, associating with xxx thought to be involved with smuggling illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom, associating with xxxx, yyyy and zzzz, suspected advance fee fraudsters, his very close friendship with xxx who had tried to deposit £2million in a bank in the most suspicious circumstances and agreeing to assist xxx by adding his legitimacy to a conference, interfering with police investigations and disclosing information from those investigations, suggesting to xxx the various options available to xxx accused of damaging a car, interfering with that investigation by bullying yyyy, agreeing to assist xxxx who was under investigation for assaulting a traffic warden, ineterfing with xxxx licence application by deliberately flouting a command not to be involved, but going on to do so.
Receiving £800 from xxxx in return for advice on providing a defence on a drink-drive charge, and meeting that accused person while on bail and receiving 7 free concert tickets each of which was nominally worth £500 when he was responsible for policing that concert."
They then go on to say that this was "some, but not all, of the material received during the Helios investigation".
The Morris inquiry has published most of its findings on line. An interesting Appendix is this submission by Dizaei himself:
http://www.mpa.gov.uk/morrisinquiry/downloads/evidence-axd-00.pdf
It is heavy going, reading through the whole bloody thing but at the end, you will be left with the impression that here was a barrack room lawyer of the first order. A whinging, so and so who looks as if he was weaving the strands of potential rabble rousing, even as a police probationer.
As for the Iranian embassy connection, how about this for a potent brew:
NBPA and their alleged "values" (anti-racism); Dizaei's use of the NBPA as a platform for his tub thumping; Iranian president, Ach Me Dinner Jacket and his pronouncements that Israel must be wiped off the face of the planet. Now, it seems to me that a view such as that held and publicly declared by the Iranian president is somewhat racist. The very thing Dizaei and the NBPA vow to fight against.
Well check out this picture:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/10/article-1249775-08320287000005DC-352_468x398.jpg
Our good old friend Dizaei, addressing a conference in Iran in support of Ach Me Dinner Jacket's presidential "election" campaign. This at a time when he was suspended from the Met.
Thanks to the Daily Mail for that snap. It is part of a larger item on the outrageous behaviour of Dizaei:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249775/The-day-General-Dizaei-met-Iranian-president-guess-paid-trip.html
Finally, yet another Daily Mail link (and I thought I was crusading!):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249613/Ali-Dizaei-faces-sack-weeks-receiving-year-term-framing-innocent-man.html
PS All the xxxx, yyy etc above is a result of names having been blacked out in the transcripts.
London in nto infested with hordes of people with the surname xxx!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Ali Dizaei; the Shahrokh Mireskandari connection
Now, here's a little bugger.
Shahrokh Mireskandari (or Dr Shahrokh 'Sean' Mireskandari BSc (Hons), MA (Hons) JD (Hons) as he likes to style himself) was pretty closely involved with Commander Ali Ba Ba.
In September 2008, Dizaei was suspended for, among other things, his allegedly advising a defence team in the prosecution of an East European woman who was charged with killing a cyclist in a hit and run accident.
The lawyer representing this woman was Shahrokh Mireskandari.
In 2007, the lawyer was a guest at Dizaei's wedding (well, one of them) as was this East European woman.
As far as I can gather, this woman was on bail for the alleged offence.
And Dizaei, a top cop, had invited her to his wedding!
It was alleged, in the Daily Mail, that Dizaei was briefing the defence team on how to pick holes in the prosecution's case, which was being prepared by his colleagues in the Met.
The defendant's sister later said "'Sean told us that Dizaei would be a consultant and would guide us about the police work and whether they were right or not... whether they had done something illegal.' (Sean is another of the dodgy brief's names).
Anyway, back to the dodgy brief.
As can be seen in the opening lines, he has a pretty impressive string of titles, degrees etc.
Except they are all bogus!
He does have a long experience of the law though, beginning with his conviction in Los Angeles in 1991 for operating a telephone marketing scam.
Read this item in the Daily Mail from 2008:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article........
This article also covers how the Solicitors Regulation Authority investigated this dodgy brief and discovered how he acquired the string of letters after his name.
He claimed to obtained a law degree at the American University of Hawaii. This was shut down by the courts in Hawaii in 2005, with the owner, Hassan Safavi under investigation.
Hassan Safavi? Another bloody Anglo-Iranian!
The dodgy brief, when questioned, refused to disclose where else he may have obtained his "law degrees".
Eventually, at the end of their investigations, the dodgy brief's law firm, Dean & Dean, was shut down by the SRA.
Guess what his next move was? He was, in 2009, suing the SRA and the Law Society for "race & religious discrimination". I don't know if this has been resolved at this time but the SRA web site still carries the notice of "Intervention" which closed him down.
I don't know the full extent of his case load over the years he has been in business here but I can say that an awful lot of his work seems to have involved the Met's Black Police Association. He appears to have been central to a number of high profile cases, generally encouraging anyone of an Asian background to sue the police for "discrimination".
Ali Dizaei; enough said about that piece of work!
Tariq Ghaffour; having finished his 30 years in the force, he decided he wanted to be the El Supremo at the Olympics in London in 2012. At the instigation of Dr Dodgy Brief, he accused Sir Ian Blair of having reneged on a promise to give him this plum job. It had been made very clear from a long time before this that the government would be taking charge of this, not the Met Police. It didn't stop the accusation of racism and the Met (quite wrongly and irresponsibly) paying out £300,000 as compensation for the "hurt he had felt". On top of that, this bloke goes away with a pension-related lump sum of £525,000 and an annual pension of £85,000.
It seems this deal went through in order to smooth the handover from Sir Ian Blair to Sir Paul Stephenson as Commissioner. Bloody spineless and irresponsible!
Commander Shabir Hussain; he sued the Met Police for ....well you know very well what for.
He claims he was overlooked for promotion in 2006. It transpires that, during the selection process he was one of 7 candidates. One other candidate scored the same as Hussain, the others all scored higher. Nobody scored lower. He didn't get the job. Now, that was in 2006. What happened between 2006 and the date the spurious claim went to a tribunal in 2008? No idea but probably Dr Dodgy Brief became involved.
He lost his case.
Yasmin Rehman; This woman was a senior manager with responsibility for "promoting racial and religious diversity" within the Met Police. In 2008, she lodged a claim of racial discrimination, making all manner of outlandish allegations. In December of that year, she withdrew the allegations and has since quit the Met. (probably a fair indication there was nothing to her claims). Throughout this fiasco, she was advised by the MBPA. This organisation often employed our friend Dr. Dodgy Brief; I wonder what, if any, involvement he had in this trumped up nonsense?
It goes on and on, usually with this fraud somewhere in the background, apparently orchestrating things.
Have a listen to him attacking Sir Ian Blair in a radio interview in 2007:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7589568.stm
Last heard of, this numty was suing the Solicitors Regulation Authority for £10million.
Again, last heard of, there were rumours he had legged it to the USA.
Nice!
Shahrokh Mireskandari (or Dr Shahrokh 'Sean' Mireskandari BSc (Hons), MA (Hons) JD (Hons) as he likes to style himself) was pretty closely involved with Commander Ali Ba Ba.
In September 2008, Dizaei was suspended for, among other things, his allegedly advising a defence team in the prosecution of an East European woman who was charged with killing a cyclist in a hit and run accident.
The lawyer representing this woman was Shahrokh Mireskandari.
In 2007, the lawyer was a guest at Dizaei's wedding (well, one of them) as was this East European woman.
As far as I can gather, this woman was on bail for the alleged offence.
And Dizaei, a top cop, had invited her to his wedding!
It was alleged, in the Daily Mail, that Dizaei was briefing the defence team on how to pick holes in the prosecution's case, which was being prepared by his colleagues in the Met.
The defendant's sister later said "'Sean told us that Dizaei would be a consultant and would guide us about the police work and whether they were right or not... whether they had done something illegal.' (Sean is another of the dodgy brief's names).
Anyway, back to the dodgy brief.
As can be seen in the opening lines, he has a pretty impressive string of titles, degrees etc.
Except they are all bogus!
He does have a long experience of the law though, beginning with his conviction in Los Angeles in 1991 for operating a telephone marketing scam.
Read this item in the Daily Mail from 2008:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article........
This article also covers how the Solicitors Regulation Authority investigated this dodgy brief and discovered how he acquired the string of letters after his name.
He claimed to obtained a law degree at the American University of Hawaii. This was shut down by the courts in Hawaii in 2005, with the owner, Hassan Safavi under investigation.
Hassan Safavi? Another bloody Anglo-Iranian!
The dodgy brief, when questioned, refused to disclose where else he may have obtained his "law degrees".
Eventually, at the end of their investigations, the dodgy brief's law firm, Dean & Dean, was shut down by the SRA.
Guess what his next move was? He was, in 2009, suing the SRA and the Law Society for "race & religious discrimination". I don't know if this has been resolved at this time but the SRA web site still carries the notice of "Intervention" which closed him down.
I don't know the full extent of his case load over the years he has been in business here but I can say that an awful lot of his work seems to have involved the Met's Black Police Association. He appears to have been central to a number of high profile cases, generally encouraging anyone of an Asian background to sue the police for "discrimination".
Ali Dizaei; enough said about that piece of work!
Tariq Ghaffour; having finished his 30 years in the force, he decided he wanted to be the El Supremo at the Olympics in London in 2012. At the instigation of Dr Dodgy Brief, he accused Sir Ian Blair of having reneged on a promise to give him this plum job. It had been made very clear from a long time before this that the government would be taking charge of this, not the Met Police. It didn't stop the accusation of racism and the Met (quite wrongly and irresponsibly) paying out £300,000 as compensation for the "hurt he had felt". On top of that, this bloke goes away with a pension-related lump sum of £525,000 and an annual pension of £85,000.
It seems this deal went through in order to smooth the handover from Sir Ian Blair to Sir Paul Stephenson as Commissioner. Bloody spineless and irresponsible!
Commander Shabir Hussain; he sued the Met Police for ....well you know very well what for.
He claims he was overlooked for promotion in 2006. It transpires that, during the selection process he was one of 7 candidates. One other candidate scored the same as Hussain, the others all scored higher. Nobody scored lower. He didn't get the job. Now, that was in 2006. What happened between 2006 and the date the spurious claim went to a tribunal in 2008? No idea but probably Dr Dodgy Brief became involved.
He lost his case.
Yasmin Rehman; This woman was a senior manager with responsibility for "promoting racial and religious diversity" within the Met Police. In 2008, she lodged a claim of racial discrimination, making all manner of outlandish allegations. In December of that year, she withdrew the allegations and has since quit the Met. (probably a fair indication there was nothing to her claims). Throughout this fiasco, she was advised by the MBPA. This organisation often employed our friend Dr. Dodgy Brief; I wonder what, if any, involvement he had in this trumped up nonsense?
It goes on and on, usually with this fraud somewhere in the background, apparently orchestrating things.
Have a listen to him attacking Sir Ian Blair in a radio interview in 2007:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7589568.stm
Last heard of, this numty was suing the Solicitors Regulation Authority for £10million.
Again, last heard of, there were rumours he had legged it to the USA.
Nice!
Ali Dizaei Saga; NBPA
As a result of the recent conviction of Ali Dizaei, I started looking into some of the things with which he has been involved and one of these is the National Black Police Association, of which he is a past leader.
I do not like racism of any sort and an organisation that restricts its membership, aims and agenda to exclude any other group is racist.
This is regardless of which ethnic group is restricting others, black, white, brown or purple.
For some time, I have wondered how this nation can tolerate the idea of an organisation which seems to boast of its own brand of racism in its name.
Let there be a White Police Association and there will be bloody uproar!
I read a post somewhere in which some mis-guided person wrote that membership of the NBPA is open to anyone, regardless of ethnic origin. I actually believed it, for about 5 minutes.
First I looked up the NBPA's web site and found that none of its leaders, prominent members etc are white.
I looked a the constitution to see what it says about membership.
They skirt around that somewhat by saying membership is open to any of the national Black Police Associations. So that means looking up the membership requirements of the various associations around the country.
At the outset of the NBPA constitution, they include a handy re-definition of the term "Black":
"1.3 The definition of "Black" is one that emphasises the common experience and determination of people of African, African-Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Asian or Asian sub-continent origin to oppose the effects of racism and victimisation".
This tells us 2 things:
1. It is a racist organisation
2. They are thick. "Middle Eastern, Asian and Asian sub-continent origin" all means one thing; "Asian".
Come to that, people of African-Caribbean origin can also be deemed to be of African origin.
Anyway, I checked the Merseyside BPA for their membership criteria, to see if they were a little less woolly about membership requirements. They say:
"Full members must be able to satisfy our constitutional definition of ‘black’. Contrary to popular believe this does not mean you must be must be black as commonly understood, but rather have the ‘common experience and determination’ of people who are, because it is they that are typically far more likely historically and currently, to be on the receiving end of racism. Indeed we have a number of white full members, one of whom is currently an MBPA Executive Committee member."
Which proves 2 things:
1. It is a racist organisation
2. They are thick. Check the spelling and the grammar. Trust me; I copied this directly from their web site: http://www.merseysidebpa.org.uk/
I don't think I need any more convincing that this organisation is anything other than racist.
If they called their club something along the lines of the "Anti-Racist Police Officers Association" and opened membership to any Police Officer who was determined to stand up to racism in any form, they may get a bit more sympathy.
As they stand, they are to be condemned as racist. Nothing more and nothing less.
Incidentally, did I mention that they are thick?
Here's another gem from one of their affiliated associations, the Met Police BPA:
"The Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA) were very surprised to hear the verdict given on 08.02.2010 regarding the case of Commander Ali Dizaei."
No shit, Sherlock!
To be fair, they do go on to say "It is imperative that we recognise and respect the decision of the Jury - no one should be above the law." but the damage is done in that first sentence.
(By the way, why does the word jury require a capital J?)
Nice guys that they are though, the web page does include an invitation to their MetBPA Social Dance.
Don't you love these "Social Dances"? Far better than the "Unsocial Dances"!
Tickets are available to all police officers, regardless of ethnic origin (apparently).
Tickets are £12.00 for BPA members and £15.00 for non-members.
Hang on, isn't that discriminatory? Doesn't that mean that officers who don't fit the membership definitions will be obliged to pay the higher price?
I smell scandal!
I do not like racism of any sort and an organisation that restricts its membership, aims and agenda to exclude any other group is racist.
This is regardless of which ethnic group is restricting others, black, white, brown or purple.
For some time, I have wondered how this nation can tolerate the idea of an organisation which seems to boast of its own brand of racism in its name.
Let there be a White Police Association and there will be bloody uproar!
I read a post somewhere in which some mis-guided person wrote that membership of the NBPA is open to anyone, regardless of ethnic origin. I actually believed it, for about 5 minutes.
First I looked up the NBPA's web site and found that none of its leaders, prominent members etc are white.
I looked a the constitution to see what it says about membership.
They skirt around that somewhat by saying membership is open to any of the national Black Police Associations. So that means looking up the membership requirements of the various associations around the country.
At the outset of the NBPA constitution, they include a handy re-definition of the term "Black":
"1.3 The definition of "Black" is one that emphasises the common experience and determination of people of African, African-Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Asian or Asian sub-continent origin to oppose the effects of racism and victimisation".
This tells us 2 things:
1. It is a racist organisation
2. They are thick. "Middle Eastern, Asian and Asian sub-continent origin" all means one thing; "Asian".
Come to that, people of African-Caribbean origin can also be deemed to be of African origin.
Anyway, I checked the Merseyside BPA for their membership criteria, to see if they were a little less woolly about membership requirements. They say:
"Full members must be able to satisfy our constitutional definition of ‘black’. Contrary to popular believe this does not mean you must be must be black as commonly understood, but rather have the ‘common experience and determination’ of people who are, because it is they that are typically far more likely historically and currently, to be on the receiving end of racism. Indeed we have a number of white full members, one of whom is currently an MBPA Executive Committee member."
Which proves 2 things:
1. It is a racist organisation
2. They are thick. Check the spelling and the grammar. Trust me; I copied this directly from their web site: http://www.merseysidebpa.org.uk/
I don't think I need any more convincing that this organisation is anything other than racist.
If they called their club something along the lines of the "Anti-Racist Police Officers Association" and opened membership to any Police Officer who was determined to stand up to racism in any form, they may get a bit more sympathy.
As they stand, they are to be condemned as racist. Nothing more and nothing less.
Incidentally, did I mention that they are thick?
Here's another gem from one of their affiliated associations, the Met Police BPA:
"The Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA) were very surprised to hear the verdict given on 08.02.2010 regarding the case of Commander Ali Dizaei."
No shit, Sherlock!
To be fair, they do go on to say "It is imperative that we recognise and respect the decision of the Jury - no one should be above the law." but the damage is done in that first sentence.
(By the way, why does the word jury require a capital J?)
Nice guys that they are though, the web page does include an invitation to their MetBPA Social Dance.
Don't you love these "Social Dances"? Far better than the "Unsocial Dances"!
Tickets are available to all police officers, regardless of ethnic origin (apparently).
Tickets are £12.00 for BPA members and £15.00 for non-members.
Hang on, isn't that discriminatory? Doesn't that mean that officers who don't fit the membership definitions will be obliged to pay the higher price?
I smell scandal!
Got you, you toe rag!
At last, the bane of the Metroplitan Police, Commander Ali Dizaei has been well and truly rumbled.
Yesterday, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for perverting the course of justice.
Now let's hope the Crown Prosecution Service will go back in time a couple of years to see what
really happened on the numerous occasions this nasty piece of work was "cleared" of other charges.
The National Black Police Association, headed by Ali Dizaei himself, has constantly claimed that
there has been a conspiracy against him.
In the past, he has been accused of knowingly employing an illegal immigrant, of attempting to
pervert the course of justice, of misusing his police credit card fraudulently etc etc.
On each occasion, he has been cleared but it is gradually becoming obvious to any who care to see, he has relied upon the "race card" every time.
The problem has usually been that the police have had treat this barrel of laughs with kid gloves,
scared to death of the race issue being raised and driven by political correctness.
Generally, this cowardly attitude has arisen from the inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence murder. The inquiry declared that the Met was "instituionally racist".
An absurd term that, I think, will come back to haunt a few people.
My understanding of the term would imply that there was a policy in place in that force that
dictated a policy of racism that should be followed as a regular procedure in much the same terms as, for example, the policy that lays down what uniform an officer must wear or how an officer fills in a notebook etc.
I have, a long time ago, worked briefly at Scotland Yard, the home of the Met Police and I know of the "canteen culture" that McPherson's inquiry referred to.
Yes, there was the odd officer or two who was possibly guilty of racist remarks but in no different
ratios than can be observed in all walks of life. Policemen (and women) are ordinary people and
ordinary people do have their own, individual, characteristics. Some are good, some less so.
My observations in Scotland Yard were that the people I saw there were no different from people I met elsewhere; some were possibly racist, others were "pissed on power", while others were just pretty decent, common or garden people.
So, to use the term "institutionally racist, all McPherson did was to create a new weapon that
would come in handy for a bunch of miscreants. Every time anybody who was not obviously white was accused of anything by the Met, they could all cry "racism" and the powers that be were too cowardly to stand up to them as they were scared to death of the prospect of either being racist themselves or of propping up a racist organisation.
Now, with the conviction yesterday, it may be time to look at some of the events in this crook's
recent past.
Only 2 months ago, the News of the World newspaper paid "damages" to Dizaei after reporting that he had hired an illegal immigrant.
The person involved, Ace Bakhtyari, was indeed an illegal immigrant who was in this country on a fake French passport.
Ali Dizaei did indeed employ him, first as a photographer, taking photographs at Dizaei's second
wedding.
Ali Dizaei did indeed take this person into the House of Commons, allowing him to bypass security on the grounds that "he is with me". It would be a brave constable who would say to a superior officer of Dizaei's rank "I don't care who he is with, where is his ID?"
According to Bakhtyari, now back in Iran following his deportation, he became Dizaei's odd job man, staying at Dizaei's house (well one of Dizaei's 3 houses). He was so close to and trusted by Dizaei that he used to carry Dizaei's credit card for purchasing bits and bobs for his little jobs around the house.
When he was arrested during a routine police stop, Bakhtyari was found to be carrying Dizaei's credit card, along with the fake passport which led to his arrest and deportation.
Did I mention 3 houses? Indeed I did. Dizaei, allegedly, has homes in Acton, Henley and Chiswick.
Not bad going for a bloke who was on an income of £90,000.
Another bit of Dizaei's "previous" was involvement in allegations of helping a bent solicitor,
Shahrokh Mireskandari, in a case involving Dizaei allegedly helping an East European woman get off a case by showing her lawyers how to pick holes in the prosecution's case.
In fact, come to think of it, this ex-lawyer Mireskandari is such a bill of goods, he deserves his
own page!
As does Dizaei's best mate, Ali Ghaffour who is another walking travesty.
It is rare I say this, but I actually do feel sorry for the bog-standard, run of the mill policeman
in this country.
The race relations industry (for that is surely what we have here) has the police authorities by the throat and are not going to let go easily. The effect this has on your ordinary, honest policeman must be a sapping of morale.
Under the stewardship of the previous boss, Sir Ian Blair, the Met Police seemed to have become
toothless in the face of any challenge using the race card.
Hopefully, the successful prosecution of Dizaei might indicate a new willingness to face up to the
sharp practice brigade in the Met.
Finally; the government recently overturned hundreds of years of history and scrapped the "Double Jeopardy" rule which meant that, should you be found not guilty of an accusation, you could not be prosecuted again.
Now, if the prosecution don't like a not guilty verdict, they can drag you back to have another go
at you.
Well, let's see if they have the guts to use this new found power to resurrect some of the apparent miscarriages of justice surrounding the likes of Dizaei and his ilk.
Yesterday, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for perverting the course of justice.
Now let's hope the Crown Prosecution Service will go back in time a couple of years to see what
really happened on the numerous occasions this nasty piece of work was "cleared" of other charges.
The National Black Police Association, headed by Ali Dizaei himself, has constantly claimed that
there has been a conspiracy against him.
In the past, he has been accused of knowingly employing an illegal immigrant, of attempting to
pervert the course of justice, of misusing his police credit card fraudulently etc etc.
On each occasion, he has been cleared but it is gradually becoming obvious to any who care to see, he has relied upon the "race card" every time.
The problem has usually been that the police have had treat this barrel of laughs with kid gloves,
scared to death of the race issue being raised and driven by political correctness.
Generally, this cowardly attitude has arisen from the inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence murder. The inquiry declared that the Met was "instituionally racist".
An absurd term that, I think, will come back to haunt a few people.
My understanding of the term would imply that there was a policy in place in that force that
dictated a policy of racism that should be followed as a regular procedure in much the same terms as, for example, the policy that lays down what uniform an officer must wear or how an officer fills in a notebook etc.
I have, a long time ago, worked briefly at Scotland Yard, the home of the Met Police and I know of the "canteen culture" that McPherson's inquiry referred to.
Yes, there was the odd officer or two who was possibly guilty of racist remarks but in no different
ratios than can be observed in all walks of life. Policemen (and women) are ordinary people and
ordinary people do have their own, individual, characteristics. Some are good, some less so.
My observations in Scotland Yard were that the people I saw there were no different from people I met elsewhere; some were possibly racist, others were "pissed on power", while others were just pretty decent, common or garden people.
So, to use the term "institutionally racist, all McPherson did was to create a new weapon that
would come in handy for a bunch of miscreants. Every time anybody who was not obviously white was accused of anything by the Met, they could all cry "racism" and the powers that be were too cowardly to stand up to them as they were scared to death of the prospect of either being racist themselves or of propping up a racist organisation.
Now, with the conviction yesterday, it may be time to look at some of the events in this crook's
recent past.
Only 2 months ago, the News of the World newspaper paid "damages" to Dizaei after reporting that he had hired an illegal immigrant.
The person involved, Ace Bakhtyari, was indeed an illegal immigrant who was in this country on a fake French passport.
Ali Dizaei did indeed employ him, first as a photographer, taking photographs at Dizaei's second
wedding.
Ali Dizaei did indeed take this person into the House of Commons, allowing him to bypass security on the grounds that "he is with me". It would be a brave constable who would say to a superior officer of Dizaei's rank "I don't care who he is with, where is his ID?"
According to Bakhtyari, now back in Iran following his deportation, he became Dizaei's odd job man, staying at Dizaei's house (well one of Dizaei's 3 houses). He was so close to and trusted by Dizaei that he used to carry Dizaei's credit card for purchasing bits and bobs for his little jobs around the house.
When he was arrested during a routine police stop, Bakhtyari was found to be carrying Dizaei's credit card, along with the fake passport which led to his arrest and deportation.
Did I mention 3 houses? Indeed I did. Dizaei, allegedly, has homes in Acton, Henley and Chiswick.
Not bad going for a bloke who was on an income of £90,000.
Another bit of Dizaei's "previous" was involvement in allegations of helping a bent solicitor,
Shahrokh Mireskandari, in a case involving Dizaei allegedly helping an East European woman get off a case by showing her lawyers how to pick holes in the prosecution's case.
In fact, come to think of it, this ex-lawyer Mireskandari is such a bill of goods, he deserves his
own page!
As does Dizaei's best mate, Ali Ghaffour who is another walking travesty.
It is rare I say this, but I actually do feel sorry for the bog-standard, run of the mill policeman
in this country.
The race relations industry (for that is surely what we have here) has the police authorities by the throat and are not going to let go easily. The effect this has on your ordinary, honest policeman must be a sapping of morale.
Under the stewardship of the previous boss, Sir Ian Blair, the Met Police seemed to have become
toothless in the face of any challenge using the race card.
Hopefully, the successful prosecution of Dizaei might indicate a new willingness to face up to the
sharp practice brigade in the Met.
Finally; the government recently overturned hundreds of years of history and scrapped the "Double Jeopardy" rule which meant that, should you be found not guilty of an accusation, you could not be prosecuted again.
Now, if the prosecution don't like a not guilty verdict, they can drag you back to have another go
at you.
Well, let's see if they have the guts to use this new found power to resurrect some of the apparent miscarriages of justice surrounding the likes of Dizaei and his ilk.
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