Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

This is the problem isn't it and I feel it goes far beyond just students. There is no trust at all from most of society with regards to the police. A doctor practices medicine for the love of healing. A teacher teaches for the love of education. A police person polices for the love of authority. The job attracts bellends with no natural social power.
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In addition to that, the attack on students is an attack on the middle classes, a class that the police really cannot afford to alienate. If the police act without the support of the middle classes, the only people backing them are the ruling elite and the idea of a police force which just serves the ruling elite is very scary indeed particularly when they have shown that they are willing to act with total disregard for the rule of law.

Young men are being killed and maimed in Afganistan by the Taliban. That is horrendously sad but, we are tiold, the Taleban are evil men who do not share our morality. That young men and women of the same age should be attacked by our own police with the full support of the Conservative and Liberal government and the Royal Family is totally unacceptable particularly in these circumstances.

Not in my name!