The ‘non-crime hate incident’ is both sinister and monstrously absurd – it must be scrapped
End this farce
THE “non-crime hate incident” is a modern invention both sinister and yet monstrously absurd. It must be scrapped.
This mad concept flourished under the Tories, to their shame. But Labour politicians, ideologically committed to shaping and now policing the public’s behaviour, have doubled-down.
The NCHI allows anyone to trigger a police probe into any interaction they feel was motivated by hostility towards someone’s race, religion, disability or sexual preference. No evidence is needed.
It is nothing but a charter for snowflakes and vexatious troublemakers.
Among the jaw-dropping examples, a bloke who thought a barber cut his hair roughly.
A German offended by the word “Rottweiler”. A man mysteriously branded a “Leonard”.
All contacted police, like thousands of other “non-crime” claimants, revelling in their victimhood, seeking “justice”.
Police, supposedly too stretched now to attend your burglary or nick shoplifters, obsessively log each one.
And Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is still keen on this drivel, even as real crime rises.
Meanwhile her Tory shadow Chris Philp says: “Police should only investigate or record actual criminal allegations, or incidents with a real and imminent risk of criminality subsequently occurring.” Which sounds right.
The Met at least will surely have to give up on it. A monstrous budget cut is forcing London’s force to lose 2,000 cops and limit police station opening times.
It cannot justify a single non-crime probe now. Can it?
Clown court
THE farcical arrest warrant for Israel’s PM heaps disgrace and global ridicule on the International Criminal Court.
Its claim that Benjamin Netanyahu is starving Gaza is ludicrous when Hamas gunmen routinely hijack supplies.
Let’s not forget — unlike the ICC — that Israel is at war. A war against terrorists who hide beneath their own citizens, relishing their deaths as valuable PR.
Hamas is to blame for every casualty. It ignited this conflict by massacring 1,200 Jews and still holds almost 100 hostage.
Israel, the Middle-East’s sole democracy, is defending itself. Why should it live any longer within missile range of maniacs bent on Jews’ annihilation?
The ICC is a kangaroo court Israel, the US and others refuse to recognise.
Far from respecting it, as Keir Starmer foolishly does, Britain should denounce it.
Wads for hods
TO build its 370,000 homes a year, Labour will need to train a new army of brickies.
So we applaud its £140million of fresh funding for 5,300 apprenticeships.
That’s a big win for the Builder Better Britain campaign we launched last year to get more youngsters into construction.
Let’s hope there’s mortar come.