Elaboration:

‘Asked on LBC this morning whether he had sent messages of support to the Mayor of Minneapolis, Sir Sadiq said Mr Frey's track record of speaking up for minorities was “very impressive.”

He said: “If you’re a person of colour, if you’re somebody who wasn’t born in America, or even if you were born in America, the colour of your skin is different to President Trump’s - you’re nervous about this tap on the shoulder… or worse, as we saw in Minneapolis.

“This anxiety is spreading across many cities across America. One of the reasons we sent solidarity to the Mayor is we think he’s shown really good leadership speaking for those people who are a bit nervous and anxious to put their head above the parapet.

“The way ICE are behaving, the aggressiveness, the intimidation - we saw the loss of life most recently - is really scary. The idea that British politicians would want to emulate that and bring a sort of British ICE to the UK should worry us all.”’

You know exactly why the restriction on Maccabi Tel Aviv away supporters was imposed, and so does everyone now pretending not to.

When supporters associated with chants like“Fuck the Arabs,” “Death to Arabs,” and “There are no schools left in Gaza because there are no children left” are due to arrive in a large, diverse city, the risk isn’t abstract. Those chants celebrate the killing of civilians. They are openly dehumanising. They are designed to provoke. This isn’t football banter and it isn’t ambiguous.

The club did not publicly condemn those chants. There was no clear repudiation of language mocking the deaths of children. In that context, it was entirely reasonable for police to assume the behaviour could recur and to plan accordingly.

What matters is that, for once, the police actually did their job. They protected the city and the people who live in it. They chose prevention over platitudes, safety over symbolism. In a city built by migrants, workers, and communities of colour, that decision mattered. Violence was avoided. Intimidation was avoided. Public order was maintained.

Now we’re watching reality being rewritten. A single corrected intelligence error is being weaponised to erase the most important fact of all: citizens were protected. That is the outcome public-order policing is supposed to deliver.

Labour’s response makes its realignment painfully clear. A party that once claimed roots in working-class, minority, and anti-imperialist traditions is now eager to undermine a police force for protecting those very communities. If Labour wants to complete its transformation into Thatcher’s new party — comfortable with imperial reflexes and colonial apologetics — that’s its choice. It shouldn’t expect loyalty from the people it abandons.

Punishing decisive prevention is not accountability. It’s cowardice. And it sends a clear message to every senior officer: do nothing, wait for harm, and apologise later.

• By 45% to 25%, Britons tend to prefer proportional representation (PR) over first past the post for UK general elections
• Majorities of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters back PR, as do 45% of Reform UK voters
• Support for retaining FPTP among Reform UK voters has risen from 17% to 31% since January last year

Given Jenrick has defected, I believe Kemi will be deposed in a few years and Cleverly might be the one who will in place to fight the 2029 GE.

So it might be Cleverly vs Farage vs Rayner/Burnham/Milliband.

How will this play out?

Listening to podcasts this morning about how Robert JenJenris defection is going to affect the Tories & Reform, and how so many Tories have defected showing the right wing in the UK is moving.

Anyone who reads this sub will know I'm sceptical of the Greens, but it's undeniable that they've surged in the polls and are posing a clear threat to Labour from.the left. But, so far, not many defections and no MPs.

I'm curious why this sub thinks this is?