Looks like Britannia has been there before.
Posted on 09/13/2010 8:01:14 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Derek Barnett, the president of the Police Superintendents' Association, will say that the harshest austerity drive since the Second World War is likely to lead to a period of rising "disaffection, social and industrial tensions".
In a speech to his association's conference, he will suggest that history shows that widespread disorder is "inevitable" at some point. Chief Supt Barnett will also warn that crime will rise if front-line policing is cut too severely.
Fears of widespread civil disobedience are being voiced as unions threaten co-ordinated strikes and a "campaign of resistance not seen for decades" against spending cuts.
Delegates at the Trades Union Congress yesterday voted almost unanimously in favour of a motion that called for a co-ordinated campaign against the cuts.
One union leader branded the Government the "demolition Coalition" and said it had declared war on working people.
Brendan Barber, the usually moderate general secretary of TUC, said the cuts would make Britain "a darker, brutish, more frightening place".
Mr Barnett will say that it is "disingenuous" to suggest that any warnings of rising crime under the cuts is scaremongering. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will be at the superintendents' conference to hear him say that there was "surprise and disappointment" that the police service was not offered protection from cuts like some other public services, such as the NHS.
"In an environment of cuts across the wider public sector, we face a period where disaffection, social and industrial tensions may well rise," Mr Barnett, of Cheshire Police, will say. "We will require a strong, confident, properly trained and equipped police service, one in which morale is high and one that believes it is valued by the government and public."
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this would be a good spot for a “rock and a hard place” graphic.
In other words, the government will be overthrown for its weakness. What’s wrong with that?
Yea, the Muslims will be angered if they do not get their welfare.
Or in other words, meet our demands or we will burn our house down...
Typical union economic moron.
Looks like Britannia has been there before.
Wait until the welfare brood mare checks and food stamps stop going out HERE.
Going to be an exciting Fall and Winter followed by a long, hot Summer.
well done.
Want to dance? Pay the piper.
It would be racism to cut money that isn’t there.
“Spending cuts will bring civil unrest, says UK police leader”
Keeping order is your job, says the government.
But don’t worry, even sharpened pencils are illegal in UK so you’re safe
Sooner or later, the checks will have to stop. There will be nothing left to give away at some point.
Socialism sucks when you run out of other peoples money.
I visited England in 1981 and 1985. Never again until they drive the muzzies out.
In other words, never again in my lifetime.
yup, those that get it handed to them will riot before those who get it taken from them ever will...
Now its cold damp, and brutal.
If they stop the checks in the fall, winter will take care of many of them.
We are armed here. Most places here still recognize people’s right to defend themselves and their property, from ANYONE who will take it.
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