Metropolitan police chief condemns former officers over Damian Green claims
As I have argued before, any other person, in any other job, would, by now, have been sacked for gross misconduct and misuse of company facilities. Why is Damian Green so different from the rest of us? What is it about this long term friend and associate of Theresa May, (pictured below, side by side at at an Oxford University Edmund Burke Society dinner in 1976, with Green's future wife sitting in the front row) that make him, apparently, immune from investigation or even criticism?.
The way in which the political "establishment" are now rallying to the support of the First Secretary of State, Minister for the Cabinet Office and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, demonstrates quite clearly that retaining Green in government and in cabinet far outweighs the need to establish one way or the other, what the facts of this sordid episode actually are. The stench of political expedience again wafting around Westminster and Downing Street.
In an effort to divert attention from the real issues, and to raise the possibility of prosecutions against others, Metropolitan Police Chief Cressida Dick and some MP allies of Green, are suggesting that former officers Neil Lewis and Bob Quick were wrong to discuss allegations that pornography was found on Green's computer, and that they should be investigated and for "breaking confidentiality" with files being passed to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The observer might be excused for thinking that the establishment were already busy lining up their scapegoats for future punishment.
I return to the point I made at the beginning of this comment, that any other person, in any other job, would, by now, have been sacked for gross misconduct and misuse of company facilities. I cannot help but think that had an ordinary member of staff be found with such material on their computer, they would have by now been attending their local jobcentre seeking another position and drawing their benefits.
SCAPEGOATS.
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