Mets are magic?
LIKE MOST of your readers I am fed up with the way those keep vilifying our police force. Now I am pleased to tell you the Met have answered back and produced a snazzy information folder About The Metropolitan Police', and a catchy sticker with the equally catchy slogan - 'Mets are Magic'.
Right from the start the brochure nails the complaints. brochure :..police officers like doctors, solicitors, barristers and many other professions have their own discipline code'. Now some awkward people do question that procedure and ask 'How come that Towers and Blair Peach rather should themselves and their mates?' But the Met put our fears to rest on that score. They explain: 'Members of a particular profession have the greatest interest in maintaining standards in that profession, and they have the necessary knowledge to know what is allowable behaviour in various circumstances.
When you think about it the Met are right. When an offence has been alleged the Deputy Commissioner considers what disciplinary action needed and who qualified? Most of the long string of Deputy Commissioners have wide experience of corruption, , after all the Met and its officers made and still make a stack of money out of Soho's porn rackets.
London's gangsters like the Kray brothers could not have stayed without the odd magic Met. must have been aware of the Met's deeply ingrained racism, everyone else is So clearly with such knowledge available and experience at hand, there is no need for independents to start meddling in the disciplinary extremists called 'Facts killed Liddle just to name two of a be investigating COme better ter business so helping hand by Clearly the Deputy Commissioners ed ground when he advocates a flexible tactical approach to building a mass movement in Britain in solidarity with Ireland's fight for freedom. (Letters, issue 211)
It is more than likely that the workers will move at first which will be less clear than we would ideally like them to be. Ideas always are catch up with the events they express.
Marxism should therefore be alive to any expression of mass opposition by the workers' movement to ruling class policy I cland ana be ready lo initiatives of mass action.
This should be no maton how confused basis they are organised, so as to be better placed to win the workers to a classCONCOS policy freedom for all Irish political prisoners, troods out now selt-determination for the Irish people, and for socialist 32 county Irish Republic.
I need no convincing of under banners and slogans slow to He NEC statement to one says he supports upcoming Party Conference because it reaffirms 'the party's traditional commitment to the unification of Ireland as an ultimate objective.
Healey will vote with Benn for a united Ireland in October when they both vote for the NEC ment. Many of the Labour left rank-and-file are therefore going ques tion the usefulness of an Irish policy which the Right can agree with. Is it our job to blur the dif terence between Left and Right on or policy. Nor has it been for or against Concannon.
Instead has been dominated in the national conferences of the Scottish Trades Labour Party LOUI Socialists and TGWU either by the policies of the CPGB (special category status. withdrawal to bar. racks, Bill of Rights) or those of the Milltant tendency (Northern prison troops out, Northern Ireland™ are utopian and reactionary but they politically conscious, militant workers because they appear to offer an independent role the working class in resolving the Northern Ireland conflict and opening the road to socialist development in This terrain of debate is precisely what the LCI campaign runs away from and why •those few who have tried to raise the LCI IT MAY INTEREST readers in the Dorset area to learn that a sports and country club has been up just outside Christchurch.
Burton Hall, Georgian mansion in own extensive grounds. COSE ·200.000 A further £450, 000 is being spent on converting une bullang Into an • country club, with a great emphasis on wining and dining Hotelier Richard Lee is confident that despite high membership fees (£125 for single membership £220 for full double membership) he will soon reach a target membership of 3000.
According Lee, 'Burton Hall will not even be open until October but already have members.
When it is complete, Burton Hall, which is a listed building, will offer members an carte restaurant. outdoor and indoor heated swimming room, five bars, squash courts, an informa bistro, sauna, solarium and jacuzzi, plus of course a disco in lne nall s cellars.
It is monstrous, that at a timi when people are committing suicide because they can no longer face being and hungry, CUTES sort of 'establishment' can be let alone completed.
But then, at least as far as Lee and his cronies are concerned, the are Burton nothing but a monument to decadence and humbug. It shows what a sick society we are living in!
Kevin Miles Dorset
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