Cool. We need more ethnic representation to stop the damn thing becoming a sword arm of the BNP! lol

Stay strong.

The man simply has to go now for the good of London.

Ghaffur is doing the right thing if it exposes what everyone knows. But will he be allowed to make a case or will the Met do what it has done in the past and go dirt digging.

Also as I have said Muslims are trying to engage but show me how many times that hand of friendship and engagement has been accepted by Govt and Govt Departments – practically zero. Where it is engaged on rare occassions then the secular and evangelicals strat screaming.

BTW Engagement doesn’t entail Blears being sent to lecture Muslims it entails also listening.

the media machine destroys all that is meaningful. its the real medium of 1-1 human relations thats where i believe the honey is. maybe just let the ants get stuck in the glue.

Funny thing is, I immediately recalled the Channel 4 (?) documentary where some of the Liverpool PD were talking standard racist cobblers and being secretly filmed. People like this may be in the minority, but when you start hearing senior officers talking about racism, it does not inspire any confidence or trust.

This, therefore, was an inevitable position that Mr Ghaffur would claim racial discrimination against the Metropolitan Police, but this happens all over the country.

In my opinion Blair’s record on race is poor, consider de Menezes for example. His record on other issus of diversity, e.g sexuality, may be different, but hey there’s really nothing like being Black.

Yes, the service harbours some that practice racism in my opinion; but it’s far far worse then this; some managers do not care an iota about race; they are happy ticking boxes for the HMIC. The then HMIC come in, see the ticked boxes, consult with Chiefs, but nothing occurs. Who works for whom?

Race change, I am afraid, is being controlled by a Liberal elite inside policing. These people are hardly likely to dismantle the advantages that actually got them to where they are.

This case is required. Notwithstanding the fact that actually peole like Blair and other Liberal managers do not fear being called racist, this is a terrible state of affiars. Please understand that they will fight any allegations and try and dismiss them; but has this not been a Colonial pight since the days of slavery. What’s new? New slavery.

Not only this but they will get the authority on side. As soon as Ghaffur decides he won’t play ball with their rules, he’s on his own, outside.

Litigation does make a public spectacle of things. Whenever i’ve come across incidents where rascism comes up in an institutions…. irrespective of what happens theres an entrenchment of ‘this pcness is bs’ in the organisation.

Kudos to the folks in there who are changing perceptions with their human qualities. Police service is a hard one to crack… they arent habituated to dealing with the loveliest people in the country.

The guy has, no doubt, friends in high places and that’s why he was left in his job.

Amen to that.

They’ve also categorically said that whilst The Lawrence inquiry did well to expose institionalised racism in the police, the racism never stopped. It just went underground. The main difference was that your white colleagues now had to be very careful about making dubious racist “canteen banter” comments in your face.

Babylon system and that…..lol

But if you’re not an ethnic minority, fully-abled, and male, on what grounds do you call discrimination if your boss has taking a dislike to you???!

I’d like to know what proof that the reasons he was passed over for promotion were simply due to race. Because as we all know race is the trump card, so I’d like to see evidence, other than the fact he is actually brown.

Maybe it was simply ‘racism’ from Ian Blair, but I feel sceptical. If you are brown and you are treated unfairly, it’s easy to make jump to the conclusion of racism I would think.