I see you, Richard Tice.
Sigh. Well of course I do - this is the modus operandi for Reform now, isn’t it? Grabbing at headlines like Stanley Johnson going for a GB News intern’s arse, desperately pawing for relevance now the grand plan to cannibalise the Tory party has come to nothing. Nigel Farage has already fucked off to stroke Donald Trump’s gossamer combover and whisper sweet nothings into what’s left of his ear. He’s trusted the responsibility of devouring the British political limelight to his favourite cuck, who steps into the void he leaves to do his weird fascist Richard Madeley tribute act. But why put your foot in your own mouth like Madeley does, when you can encourage the police to put theirs through the back of people’s heads instead?
It’s all just so pathetically transparent. You and that posturing, ignorant thug Lee Anderson ended up with nowhere near the power and influence you thought the election would bring you. That calls for drastic measures moving forwards. What’s the alternative? Clearly future brand management for the Reform company isn’t going to revolve around any sort of commitment to improving a damned thing in your individual constituencies.
Far from it. The long-term strategy now is all about stoking division to maintain a media presence, building towards a stronger showing at the next GE or that much-coveted assimilation of the Tories. The facts go straight out of the window on that basis; react first, reap the headlines and refuse to acknowledge the nuance of the situation you’ve exploited later. If and when the truth does come out in the wash, the division and the angry stain in the minds of the easily led is already far too embedded.
Not that you’re the only one playing this deeply tedious and dangerous game, pretending you’re the only truth-tellers in an ocean of confusion and deceit. We are all far too easily conned by sleazy, lying grifters who seek to reduce every controversy to binary and opposing outrages. Either every single one of the police officers involved in the Manchester Airport footage are brutal thugs overstepping their authority, or they’re heroes facing down violent criminals who are entirely to blame for escalating the situation and deserved everything they got. Who needs a complicated and nuanced truth, when a simple scandal can be so utterly one-sided?
Any lawyer, journalist, politician or Twitter dickhead leaping to push the extremes of either narrative while being deliberately selective with the facts is as bad as any other. That applies to both you and Akhmed Yakoob, the human Vice City loading screen who initially rushed to paint the police as entirely to blame for the violence. You can never get the full picture from selectively edited snippets of footage and this whole horrific case should have been handled with the utmost caution from the start.
Two things can be true at once without cancelling each other out. The police involved were clearly subjected to appalling violence by attackers who thoroughly deserve to be punished by the law for it. That doesn’t mean that some officers didn’t respond wholly inappropriately or excessively to the situation. The standards, the training, the constant drilling of what is and what isn’t an appropriate use of force means our police can and should be held to a much higher standard than any violent criminal.
There is simply no context in which stamping on or kicking a prone suspect in the head is a necessary or proportionate response to any situation, however chaotic or violent. The very foundations of our justice system are based on the principle that justice is meted out by the court system, not in the heat of the moment by those who represent the law. Everyone involved should now have to justify their actions in court and that’s the way it should be.
But you don’t care about any of that, do you, Richard Tice? You’d prefer a world where it’s the police’s right and responsibility to dispense punitive and violent justice in response to any aggression they find themselves up against. Anderson even wants them to get medals for it. I mean for fuck’s sake, you even wrote a posturing letter to Yvette Cooper as if she’s directly responsible for any decision to prosecute. Then you have the nerve to bitch and moan when your critics have the nerve to call you a fascist, when you’re practically calling for politicians to direct the decisions of the supposedly independent CPS. If that's not a police state what else would you call it?
But that's who you are, isn't it? Beneath the slick presentation and the grotesque circle-jerk that is the self-perpetuating outrage of the GB news machine lies something far more sinister. A vulture, gorging himself on false piety to feed his sinister plans for the future.
I see you, Richard Tice. I fucking see you.
A perfect summation of how I feel about the Manchester airport incident.
That alongside "...whispering sweet nothings into what's left of his ear." made laugh my ass off of my chair and onto the floor.