One phenomenon that we will find increasingly frequent is the drowning-out of important news stories by the overwhelming effects of Covid-19. Soon, every day will be a good day for revealing bad news. One such that has gone almost completely unnoticed was the report by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary into the Noncefinder-General / Met police celebrity sex abuse mess.
The Met wasted £5m of our taxes and a cost of scores of real crimes going uninvestigated as detectives as credulous as old maids chased phantom high-end personalities, egged on by Labour's deputy leader, Noncefinder-General Tom Watson and the kiddie-fiddler they had especially befriended.
Cressida Dick, the police officer with command responsibility for the shooting of innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, was Met chief from 2017 to 2019, during which time she had on her desk the report by Sir Richard Henriques and did exactly nothing to tackle the institutional incompetence and malfeasance in the Met. In fact, she seems to have spent all her efforts into hiding the Henriques report from the public - fully assisted, no doubt, by the failed mandarins at the Home Office who flourished under Theresa May.
It stinks. Cressida Dick must go. As Harvey Proctor told the Telegraph
"Police officers who mess up and get things so seriously wrong including the present Commissioner should bear a personal responsibility for their wrong doing. They should not be promoted, pensioned off. Ennobled and enriched. That is not the correct lesson that should be learnt from this dreadful scandal - the worst in living memory of the police."
| 13/03/20 | ||
| EU/EEA and the UK | Cases | Deaths |
| Italy | 15113 | 1016 |
| Spain | 3004 | 84 |
| France | 2876 | 61 |
| Germany | 2369 | 5 |
| Denmark | 676 | 0 |
| Norway | 621 | 1 |
| Sweden | 620 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 614 | 5 |
| United Kingdom | 590 | 10 |
| Belgium | 399 | 3 |
| Austria | 361 | 1 |
| Finland | 155 | 0 |
| Greece | 133 | 1 |
| Iceland | 117 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 116 | 0 |
| Slovenia | 96 | 0 |
| Portugal | 78 | 0 |
| Ireland | 70 | 1 |
| Romania | 64 | 0 |
| Poland | 49 | 1 |
| Estonia | 27 | 0 |
| Luxembourg | 26 | 0 |
| Croatia | 25 | 0 |
| Bulgaria | 23 | 1 |
| Slovakia | 21 | 0 |
| Hungary | 16 | 0 |
| Latvia | 16 | 0 |
| Malta | 9 | 0 |
| Cyprus | 6 | 0 |
| Liechtenstein | 4 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 28297 | 1191 |
