'Sir, I'm not playing with him, he smells...!'

According to the 'Telegraph' this morning, there's trouble ahead at the Assembly following the election of the BNP candidate:

But Richard Barnbrook has been warned to expect no co-operation from other parties and a possible boycott by staff, many of whom are from ethnic minorities.

Each assembly member is entitled to two staff to perform research and secretarial duties. Traditionally, these are non-political civil servants recruited from an internal pool.

However, it's being suggested that these civil servants might break their own rules and refuse to work with them (in which case, sack them!). Who could be suggesting that, you ask...? Loony lefties? Union leaders? Well, no:

Richard Barnes, the Conservative leader on the 25-member assembly, said: "The BNP will have problems finding secretaries and getting support from the staff here, and I will totally support people's right to say they don't want to serve them.

"They may have a foot in the door but they won't get anywhere near the levers of power."

Len Duvall, the Labour group leader, said: "They are going to have to go and get their own people. Richard Barnbrook will have pariah status."

So, there you have it, from our elected politicians - if they don't like the way the voters voted, they will encourage their staff to pick up their ball and go home! Did City Hall become a creche while no-one was looking..?

I hold no brief for the BNP, but they were voted in. Refusing to work with them is not going to pursuade the voters that politicians really are 'listening to the people'...

You Can Safely Ignore These Objections...

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has come under pressure to order Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to...

Pull her finger out and get a grip on London's street crime epidemic?

...stop plans for officers to patrol residential areas of the city with their guns on show.

By which utter morons, may I ask?

Len Duvall, a Labour member of the London Assembly (Ed: Translation: career obstructive guttersnipe) and former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, the body which used to oversee the Met, said: “Now the police with guns are in cars, in central London because of the terrorist threat, or for a specific operation.

“Police walking around a [council] estate with guns is a crazy thing. It creates a different atmosphere. It does not make sense and has not been thought through.”

Stafford Scott of the Monitoring Group (Ed: Translation - fulltime taxpayer funded race-baiter), which campaigns against what it sees as police injustices, said: “The more oppressive the policing and state response is, the more the violence will increase. These kids have been bullied by the police and its partners for most of their lives.

“They cannot fight the state so they fight each other. The police need to identify those who are a real threat and not simply use the violence as an excuse to oppress large sections of the community.”

Ah. The usual suspects. Listening to them is what got us into this state. Try something new.