Ian Blair’s fate hangs in the balance
The Metropolitan Police Authority meets this Thursday 22nd November to discuss Sir Ian Blair’s case on the shooting of Charles De Menezes. Paul Linford earlier concluded that Sir Ian Blair should not be backed by liberal-lefties because of the lack of transparency in the way the Met Police conducted this operation. I agree with him.
So, can we put any pressure on this case?
Blogger Yorkshire Ranter has helpfully compiled a list:
- 5 declared Labour members.
- 1 Green, Jenny Jones, still hanging on for the decentralised, human-scale virtues of ecologically plugging random electricians on the tube. But we’re getting in touch…
- 7 Tories and Liberals.
- Cindy Butts, Faith Boardman, and Richard Sumray, who are all for various reasons parti pris for the Government.
- Damien Hockney is voting no confidence in Sir Ian Blair.
- Karim Murji, I’m informed, is voting the Government ticket.That’s 10 members of the Glock 17 caucus to 8 in the Axis of Reason. Who’s left?
Looks like MPA e-mail addresses are firstname.lastname@mpa.gov.uk.
- Aneeta Prem, media@aneeta.com, webform; “has the top electrical consultants to build your home’s intelligent lighting system,” apparently.
- Reshard Auladin: Has “a keen interest in British Muslim affairs” according to the MPA. reshard.auladin@mpa.gov.uk
- Rachel Whittaker; rachel.whittaker@mpa.gov.uk, 020 7202 0223. Not this one.
- Kirsten Hearn “Wishes to describe herself as a stroppy, blind dyke, and proud of it”, apparently, not to mention a professional troublemaker. Surely, surely, surely this woman cannot be planning to vote in favour of the cops randomly shooting people? (E-mail kirsten@flotowers.freeserve.co.uk).
- John Roberts. Has “14 years of experience of working with London’s hard to reach communities”, apparently. john.roberts@mpa.gov.uk
- And Peter Herbert of the Society of Black Lawyers, we think, is sound.If you have any spare time this week at all, and especially if you live in London; can you please take the time to contact one of these people? And if you’ve got a blog, can you please reproduce this? Remember that in a two-horse race like this, every swinger counts double; not just a vote for our side, but one less for them. We’re now 10-9, with 5 votes in play; play up, play up, and play the game.
YR has some more info on the committee here too.
If you are going to email any of these people and explain why they should vote against Ian Blair, please be curteous.
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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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Well, y’know what I think. Sir Ian Blair has presided over a complete utter tragedy. He’s got to go.
Murdering innocent folk is not what we pay the Police for. Contrary to what their more proactive folk might think. It is they that are willing to see the organisation as greater than public opinion.
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