When our coppers care more about painting nails than catching criminals, something is very wrong
by Tim Stanley, Telegraph:
If you want to find a policeman nowadays, don’t call 999: go to a gay pride rally. They’ll be out in force, posing for photos with drag queens, having a merry old time and proving beyond doubt that they are absolutely, definitely not bigots.
As when, on July 22 of this year, Sussex Police tweeted that it would be marking trans pride in Brighton by providing advice on hate crime to passers-by. If you were a trans person and you did happen to get mugged that day, Brunswick Square was the place to run to for help. Nothing says “we’re on your side” like being handed a leaflet about intolerance and a free pen.
Some things never change. The force remains staffed by dedicated, brave individuals worthy of the upmost respect. But they are servants of the state – a state with an ideology that claims simply to be reasonable and kind but is, in fact, as dogmatic as any other political movement.
You and I grew up under an older liberalism that put an emphasis upon personal privacy, the view that if I choose to spend my weekends parading around the house dressed as Bonnie Tyler that’s my own damn business. Today’s liberals, however, combine a free market attitude towards lifestyle with the Left’s penchant for telling people what to do. Liberty, tolerance and diversity are no longer just preferences but moral absolutes to be enforced. Liberals are like that woman in the kids’ club at holiday camp who used to shout “Are we all having fun?”, and you looked at each other with despair because you knew it wasn’t a question; it was an order.
This Government isn’t conservative, it’s liberal, and it continues the project of changing Britain by inches begun under Tony Blair. Many of its reforms are humane and decent. But public consultation is a veneer for decisions that have already been taken. As the top sets the direction, so the various branches of the state rush to comply with embarrassing haste.
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