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03 Sep 17
21:54
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circa 10-15 years ago.
Spotted a taxi driver doing 62 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone. Pulls him over and issues him with a ticket. Bloke says he's not accepting it. Plod says you are going to have to accept it and issues him with the ticket. Bloke already has 13 points on his licence and has been getting away with paying fines to keep his licence as he has so many dependants. Plod thinks no more about it. A couple of days later plod called into Chief Inspector's office. He's told there's been a complaint of racism made against him and to explain why he issued a speeding ticket. He's asked how many Asian men he's issued tickets to. He says he's no idea. All he takes into account is the speed of the motor vehicle and said motor vehicle was travelling at 62 mph and he had no option but to issue a ticket because it was so dangerous. Chief Inspector says there will have to be an investigation.
Chief Constable of West Yorkshire police and his Assistant turn up. Call for plod. We've completed said investigation and as you've issued 3 tickets to white people and 2 tickets to Asians we've concluded you are not a racist. Plod asks if he had issued more tickets to Asians would that mean he's a racist. Chief Inspector asks plod how long it is till his retirement. Plod responds 9 months. Plod told to keep his nose clean. (or risk losing his pension if there are more allegations of racism)
Spotted a taxi driver doing 62 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone. Pulls him over and issues him with a ticket. Bloke says he's not accepting it. Plod says you are going to have to accept it and issues him with the ticket. Bloke already has 13 points on his licence and has been getting away with paying fines to keep his licence as he has so many dependants. Plod thinks no more about it. A couple of days later plod called into Chief Inspector's office. He's told there's been a complaint of racism made against him and to explain why he issued a speeding ticket. He's asked how many Asian men he's issued tickets to. He says he's no idea. All he takes into account is the speed of the motor vehicle and said motor vehicle was travelling at 62 mph and he had no option but to issue a ticket because it was so dangerous. Chief Inspector says there will have to be an investigation.
Chief Constable of West Yorkshire police and his Assistant turn up. Call for plod. We've completed said investigation and as you've issued 3 tickets to white people and 2 tickets to Asians we've concluded you are not a racist. Plod asks if he had issued more tickets to Asians would that mean he's a racist. Chief Inspector asks plod how long it is till his retirement. Plod responds 9 months. Plod told to keep his nose clean. (or risk losing his pension if there are more allegations of racism)
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Years ago I was an area manager for a blue chip company ...which included doing sick reviews ..must have done 20/25 then I had to do one on a british born Pakistani girl... she said I was a racist for doing it ....unbelievably I was investigated for being a racist I could not believe it ...on the plus side about6/7 black and Asian people all wrote letters to say I was the least racist boss they had ever had ...I didn't ask for them to do this they just thought it was wrong.
I said to the girl after I was cleared of being a racist why she had done it ...because I can she said .....true story |
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There are two things that strike me apart from this guy playing the race card.
The first is that driving at 62 mph in a 30 mph zone is incredibly dangerous. To be let off with just points seems extremely lenient. The first reaction should've been to increase the charges to dangerous driving. The second is that it's a different police force to Rotherham, which is South Yorkshire, and Rochdale in Lancashire. The disgraceful failings in those two towns were not fundamentally down to a failure of those individual police forces. More down to the legal and political hierarchy putting into place a system where people are afraid to do their job properly for fear of being labelled a racist. The disgraceful payment of £100k to Eniola Aluko and the ridiculous calls for yet another enquiry just emphasize that this culture is still thriving. |
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@Clydebank29 -- The disgraceful failings in those two towns were not fundamentally down to a failure of those individual police forces. More down to the legal and political hierarchy putting into place a system where people are afraid to do their job properly for fear of being labelled a racist.
Up to a point. The other factor was the police saw the girls the same way the rapists did -- as out-of-control wastrels, drunk or stoned most of the time, and up for anything. |
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It will only get worse, unless we the voters change it
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Unless the voters change what?
Children in care have always been the lowest of the low. See this from 2009: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5417435/Children-brought-up-in-care-have-far-poorer-life-prospects.html Ironically, their being victimised by the Pakistani gangs up north might at least have given their plight some visibility -- but it looks like it is being lost again in the race vs PC debate. |
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Ramruma attempting to deflect from the topic, which is about the oppression and silencing of the white British population by the pc fanatics and leftists and anti British haters.
The political correct types are as merciless as the communists and the Nazis. don`t trust them, they don`t deserve to be trusted. |
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CLYDEBANK I would be surprised if the policeman did not have a union rep with him in this instance, additionally a scribe to keep a record of said discussion. If what you say did happen then the policeman has grounds for complaint !
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@lfc1971 -- funny how the plight of girls in care only matters when they are being raped by Pakistani taxi drivers. That's why the police did nothing -- they thought the girls were asking for it.
See that Telegraph link -- last item on their list, after bad education, unemployment and sleeping rough is: And at least one in seven young women leaving the care system is pregnant or already a mother. This could have been our chance to clean up the care system but nothing will happen because of idiots shouting about race, religion or, even more ludicrously, paedos. |
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It's a story I find hard to believe. Can you substantiate it in any way or is it apochryful?
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he should have recorded everything that was said to him, and then made sure his superior officers were fired .
and the speeding driver charged with false claims of racism and given a prison sentence. but this sort of thing is so endemic in every part of society , in the police and schools and workplace that it is much to late to reverse. |
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I suppose Cooperman finds Scamp the mans story hard to believe also.
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we all know that ramruma, that is a fact of life but not what is being discussed here.
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You need to stop supposing lfc1971 , you're no Derek Acorah that's for sure.
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now you are playing the race card when you say the plight of young people only matters if they are being abused by a particular race or religion or nationality.
that is simply dishonest and not the case with any section of society. |
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The clue is in the first line of the post, although it's doubtful a. you read it or b. it sank in.
circa 10 - 15 years ago |
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tell me this if there is not a culture of covering up offences for fear of being called racist,
what charges are brought against someone who makes false claims of racism? has anyone ever been charged and jailed for such a thing, if not, then there is a problem right there |
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the Pakistani girl in scamps post was still in her job I notice.
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are they getting jobs, are the being kept in jobs in a redundancy situation while someone else loses theirs,
for fear of not meeting quotas or being called racist? I don't know. |
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cooperman I was dragged round by the wife to someone's party. The only person I knew was this retired policeman so I chatted to him for a bit. I've left a little out (about the conversations with his bosses), but it's clear from the bits I've left out that there was no union and he is the type of bloke to stand up for himself and not take any BS. I've little doubt myself that he was telling the truth.
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no union "rep"
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waste of time with a union rep, they would be equally inclined to tip-toe round the issue.
he needed to unknowingly record the conversation. |
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the unions are in the grip of the same madness.
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If this was, say, a british driver driving in an asian country, he would have been ripped off by the cop. The driver would then have accepted his fate knowing pretty well that if he went to any authority he will be ripped off there too. He knows the system of that country. Next time he's in that country, he wont dare overspeed(probably will use public transport next time). That is how it is in many countries.
Back to this taxi driver, if he had known that no authority would listen to his complaint, he would not have complained. He would have just accepted the ticket and would have been careful next time. But he knows the british system too. So he plays the racist card. And makes the cop look stupid. In both cases, the clever of the two uses the system to his advantage. That's all there is to it. People using the system to their benefit. Asylum seekers, benefits seekers, draft dodgers etc are just the people with a little extra intelligence working the system to their benefit while the rest of the sheep comply. |
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I don't think that's a fair analogy detraveller, the British driver in asia had to pay the cop.
certainly the Asian policeman was in no danger of being accused of racism or losing his job(despite being corrupt) as was the British policeman. that`s what we are talking about here, please try and find a suitable comparison. |
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I am comparing the asian policeman to the asian driver, not to the briish cop. Both of them use the system to their benefit.
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yes I know that , both systems are corrupt and involve Asians .
That's not what we are talking about. we are discussing the fear of being falsely accused of racism |
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Of course if the British motorist falsely accused the Asian cop of taking a bribe, and the Asian cop was in danger of losing his job and pension because of it that would be a somewhat fairer analogy,
But you didn't say that , did you detraveller.? |
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No I didn't say that. I agree the asian cop would not be under any of that pressure. Not in his own country. That sort of fear can only be associated with cops in UK(or some other Euro countries). We are the only ones not being able to create a system where we can have more rights than the ones trying to exploit it
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GEORGE CARLIN...... "political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners"
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Ah, yes detraveller now you are starting to make some sense.
You should have said that in the first place , I wasn't sure what you were getting at . Glad we cleared that up. |
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I think what detraveller means is that it's Britains fault again. We create a fair system and then when it is abused we have only ourselves to blame.
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There's a common theme I'm detecting in a lot of detravellers posts, I'm not sure what it is .
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west yorkshire police were famously anti north east whilst one
of their own citizens was allowed to continue killing women despite being questioned several times and a welter of evidence stacked up against him |
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The liberal luvee's like Lilly Allen saying this country doesn't do enough. Would you really want to bring a Syrian child into our care system. Kids in care in this country seem to get a very raw deal
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Probably like a holiday camp compared to Syria or Pakistan.
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I think,KFC, the answer is you fail to see sense in order to create confusion. Or you're thick
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Creating a fair system is not easy, it is difficult. If it is merely on paper and not in practice then you have created nothing, except words.
don`t mistake one for the other. |
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you see let me make this simple for you detraveller, if the system is capable of being exploited, and is knowingly being exploited, and allows itself to be exploited, by whoever, the British themselves, or foreigners.
then the system is not fair, but corrupt. don`t mistake one for the other. |