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oh come on...
02.10.2008 15:59
boris will only appoint someone who is more politically aligned and dependent on him. and every succeeding metropolitan police commissioner will then know their jobs are at risk every time someone new gets into office.
yeah so whoop-de-fucking-doo. sir ian blair quits. it's not like he's not going to be replaced...and if you've seen the possible runners and riders to take over, you'll pine for him.
ziggy
why didnt he take another 1000 gun happy police with him
02.10.2008 20:52
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger 1946@fsmail.net
One to Go
02.10.2008 21:35
David Beckham
Lies, Racism and Corruption
02.10.2008 22:01
July 2005
The Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes is shot dead by police who mistakenly believed he was a suicide bomber. Blair is heavily criticised for his handling of the incident.
November 2005
Blair is attacked for lobbying MPs to support government proposals to hold terrorist suspects for 90 days, amid accusations he has politicised the service.
January 2006
Attracts more controversy when he describes the media as institutionally racist for its coverage of crimes against white people. He is forced to apologise to the parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman after using the Soham murders in 2002 as an example.
March 2006
Faces further pressure to resign after it is revealed that in autumn 2005, he secretly taped several phone conversations, most notably with the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith.
May 2006
More controversy for Blair after an operation to confiscate placards displayed by the anti-war protester Brian Haw. The commissioner initially says the operation cost £7,200, but it emerges later that it cost £27,000.
June 2006
The police commissioner reaches a new low after an innocent man is shot during an anti-terror raid in Forest Gate. Tony Blair has to step in to confirm his support for the commissioner.
March 2007
The Guardian publishes a story detailing inconsistencies between an account given by Blair of his involvement in the Balcombe Street IRA Siege in December 1975.
June 2008
The country's most senior Asian police officer, Tarique Ghaffur, claims he has been sidelined and ignored over his opinions and victimised by Blair, who he accuses of racial discrimination. Seperately, Commander Shabir Hussain alleges that he has been repeatedly rejected for promotion and suggests that Blair uses his influence to favour a "golden circle" of white officers and to turn down applications made by black and Asian candidates.
July 2008
Blair faces an inquiry over a series of IT contracts with the police worth £3m won by Impact Plus – a consultancy owned by Andy Miller, a long-time friend of the commissioner.
[this company was taken over by Hitachi Consulting]
August 2008
There are reports that Blair faces another inquiry relating to an alleged cover-up of the corruption in the murder of Special Constable Nisha Patel-Nasri in 2003. Blair was then in charge of the Met's anti-corruption unit.
September 2008
Inquiry into the death of De Menezes begins, putting Blair in the spotlight once again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/02/police.menezes1
anonymouse
The one quote I remember
02.10.2008 23:19
I'm sure the vacancy won't remain empty for long.
From Ian Blair
Cripes!
03.10.2008 00:51
That should please all you anarchist chappies, what?
Boris Johnson
Scum
03.10.2008 09:01
One law for the rich....................
Bob
In the real world
03.10.2008 09:34
So "Peter Ambler" wants a London where guns are banned, well the last time I looked they are which is why the majority of police do not carry them. Perhaps you meant the armed response unit who killed Jean Charles well then perhaps you could let me know what you propose we arm the police with when they are confronting suicide bombers or armed criminals? A whistle ? A DVD of 'Dixon of Dock Green' ?
Before we all forget let us remember that those individual officers because of mistakes up the chain ran towards Jean Charles believing he was a suicide bomber about to kill people. Would you run towards a suicide bomber, putting your life at risk for the general public ?
Sometimes I do wonder about the contributors that IMC attracts !
Millie Tant
Oi Millie!
03.10.2008 10:10
You neo-crypto-fascist-recidivist-nazi you!
phatsss
to millie (tant?!)
03.10.2008 15:17
You mention Jean Charles de Menezes' death and yet still bleat on about having armed police. You disgust me.
Flo
good riddance
03.10.2008 16:40
The only surprise is that it took so long.
Keith
milan tant .get your facts right
03.10.2008 22:10
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger1946@fsmail.net
& so if Blair goes due to a lack of Boris confidence - did he stay for Ken's?
04.10.2008 13:39
So now he's gone when the inquest for Jean occurs yet nobody is still touching the question of extra-judicial killing. Jean was innocent & thus called the "wrong man who got shot" but if even if the "right man" had been in Stockwell, why should that have made it ok to shoot him? It took so long for Boris to curl that knife up under the rib cage that I wonder has he avoided internal organ damage and even now as he cleans the blade is the body politic of upper plod management "healing nicely"?
iosaf