Alex Jones
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Justice, law and politics. Languages, laptop and rest. Gaming, gym and boxing. My mum. A Blair Baby, Child of Austerity and now a man in the Era of Renewal.
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@Protect_ServeUK
Former police officer whistleblower here. The whole organisation needs reform. Reform doesn’t mean “anti-police”. Good officers need protection from management. Bad managers must face the sack. Only central gov’t can pass law to reform police. Bring back accountability boards.
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@BarristerSecret
@RishiSunak
I’m just another red brick law grad who studied the Bar vocational course on scholarship in 2014 but never got pupillage/TC. I hope that a new gov’t will invest in the CJS and finally the legal profession can take advantage of a generation of forgotten talent. We’re out there.
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@Chrissietutoruk
The “Mr Funny Guy” persona is the worst. I saw it time and time again when I was in the police. It’s just a facade to get away with bullying people. Keep posting. Keep suing. It frustrates them no end.
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@LBC
Police officers can be fixed with a high level of responsibility. They are trained specialists in use of force. Head stomping is not trained out in OST. Police assault is unacceptable. And so is being assaulted by the police. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
Met firearms officers did the same when "NX121" Martyn Blake was named. It always ends badly for the biggest street gang going. I hated the wolf pack mentality and I hated having to lie for bad cops on my team.
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@AVintenAuthor
This is awful to hear but totally believable. Sue them. I’ll never trust the police again.
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@RogerthePolice
Former student police officer whistleblower here. I’ve learned the organisation is a spiders web of cronyism and favouritism. Career progression on merit is a lie. There’s more transparency in the private sector.
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@karenwhybro
@DC_Police
There’s barely any crime down there. Especially gun crime. That firearms officer is another bully in uniform and he was a glorified security guard in life.
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@flaminhaystacks
@supertanskiii
It’s time for men to start speaking up. It’s shameful that the institution of policing has become so rotten that it’s lost touch with itself. Women, girls and children as well as the elderly and disabled are prone targets of criminals. The police are simply criminals in uniform.
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@flaminhaystacks
I’m sorry about this. The same is happening in the police. It happened to lots of new recruits. 1 in 4 not getting out of probation because she f bullying and bad management
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@DrRebeccaTidy
Loads of cops have come out in this officer’s defence. The level of force and number of officers involved is disproportionate and unnecessary. Totally inexcusable. The right way to resolve this is to take details, PVP form for child, reach out to social services and ticket(maybe)
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@DrRebeccaTidy
The Chief Constable’s reply is bona fide proof that the police are a deeply unhealthy institution in dire need of reform. The response is proof of “institutional defensiveness”. The next government shall pass a new “duty of candour” law that shall reform this cultural problem.
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Policing accountability boards must come back
Today I've been talking about one of my top priorities: tackling crime. I want us to restore community policing and ensure the police attend victims after crimes such as burglaries - and to scrap the expensive & ineffective Police & Crime Commissioners.
@PrestonLibDems
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@ImanZayna
Can confirm legal representation on a pro bono basis is a game changer. It proves your case is arguable and puts the frighteners in the cops. Police officers are all terrified of Court. They talk tough but know the public don’t trust their word in Court these days.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
Congratulations on this outcome. I pray my wrongful arrest case results in a similar manner. The police destroy good peoples lives. And compensation is never high enough.
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@grahamwettone
Fundamentally disagree with you. Policing by consent is in play here. It’s tougher than ever before now with public trust at 40%. However the police must justify in public their use of police power. If you believe this is wrong then you are truly lost. Police by consent.
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@flaminhaystacks
I first thought: “he passed” meaning he is no longer with us. Very glad I misread this! Wish you and your family all the best.
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@UKPoliceWatch
You’re right. Police reform is not anti police. Internal reform never comes. Reform from without is the only solution. Pass new law. A duty of candour law will steadily generate police reform. A positive duty to whistleblow would be appropriate.
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@carolvorders
@JamesCleverly
@Conservatives
Former student police officer whistleblower here. 1 in 4 new recruits lost in probation. More leave upon acquiring degree. Only 13,000 probably left standing. Recruitment is “sticking plaster politics”. Public trust below 50%. Recruitment drive will fail. Reform is needed.
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@ReasonableCop
@ThamesVP
I’ll be sending you the outcome of Jones v Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary when it’s heard in the EAT next year.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
We’re seeing a cycle of violence play out on our streets now. The events in Leeds have sent shockwaves across NW England. There’s a racial element to this narrative too. The comments are hijacked by racists content to see police assert dominance over the “other”. Very sad.
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@AVintenAuthor
Tangye on the SM grift. He gets some air time and all his merch on show in the background. Of his bathroom. The older cops on top whack old pensions are destroying the younger ones who are there to fill in their shoes. It’s the public who suffer most of all with bad retention
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@teapots_tea
It’s the public who suffer most of all. Losing good officers to toxic culture is avoidable
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@BentexTv
@_3366
Dog unit quite a niche unit. I worked with them on occasion. I never saw them used in a public order context. Only drugs and burglaries. However that was an aggressive deployment of a dog. No weapon was involved. A dog itself is a potentially lethal weapon itself. Proportionate?
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@BettyBoochichi2
1 in 4 are lost in probation. Even more are lost upon acquiring policing degree. There is a retention crisis of new recruits that is under-reported. Students are unsupported by management and there is bullying. Recruitment is sticking plaster politics.
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@formidableopp
@damian17236445
@teapots_tea
I am suing LancsPolice for wrongful arrest. I was a former student police officer whistleblower in 2023. I was arrested for no reason last year. LancsPolice refuse outright to disclose my custody record to my solicitors. It’s unlawful and they’ve never encountered it before.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
This is self evidently assault. It will be GBH with intent if any serious injuries are sustained. Shockingly this assault is from a firearms officer. It takes years to get into that team. He should know better. It’s because their cop mates got hurt. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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@RogerthePolice
@PoliceScotland
Credit to the CI for his honesty. I imagine he wishes to stay anonymous himself. The institutional defensiveness that example highlights is deeply saddening.
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@Kate_HollernMP
Thank you for your service. Blackburn will be poorer without you as MP. The Blackburn Labour story is far from over.
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@ImanZayna
@iceberg4w
@kwilliam111
I’ve learned how naïve I was. Most people are good and law abiding who implicitly trust the justice system but rarely encounter it. I’m learning as much now as a civilian about institutional corruption as I did when I was in service. We can’t go on like this.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
Both the Asian male in blue (No.1) and head-stomping firearms officer need be criminally investigated. Asian male no.2 in grey was punched by head-stomper and retaliated in self-defence. Asian male no. 1 assaulted smaller WPC; then tasered to ground. Heads were stomped thereafter
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@nazirafzal
@fharris2011
Both the Asian male in blue (No.1) and head-stomping firearms officer ("Head-stomper") need be criminally investigated. Police are trained to a higher standard than this. The racial element of the narrative is relevant also and this incident highlights institutional racism.
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@SheriffNottz
Another one. But an arrest is not a conviction. We must wait for the next 5 years until this goes to trial. And the officer is invariably suspended on full pay.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
This seems to be a stop-search gone wrong, with too many officers deployed causing DP's to lash out in fear. There was a lack of respect for the DP in the search, giving rise to an altercation with police that spiralled out of control. Police are trained to a higher standards.
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@iofiv
Half of my intake were lost in a year because of bullying, bad management, toxic culture and a lack of welfare support. I whistleblew and was punished. My own force lost 150 of its 500 new recruits. Uplift programme was £3.6bn investment in police "once in generation" 3/4.
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@ImanZayna
@NarcMic
You’re 100% right. Your public profile is hard earned and a superior shield than any legal process. Police Scotland didn’t arrest J.K Rowling for the same reason. Politicians, the media, peers, technology and your wits are better protection.
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@PFEW_Whistle
@PFEW_HQ
Run like a mafia. Simply used the PUP money to further their own agenda. The Fed had no interest in supporting students. One colleague pursued the career for a decade and was bullied out of a job for being dyslexic within 6 months. He reached out to the fed. And was ignored.
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@saltiestcopper
No its not. What we need is to integrate firearms officers into Response teams thereby curing the organisation of the elitist cultural problem of firearms. Response teams must include a broad diversity of skills & experience ranging from firearms to sexual offence first responder
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@YvetteCooperMP
More police doesn’t solve the problem. 1 in 4 being bullied out of a job in probation. Police itself needs reform. Politicians must show courage and reform the police.
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@leembroad
These incidents happen every shift. Resolving conflict becomes second nature. I never had to use my pava during service. Why? Because I talked to people first. Both firearms officer and Asian male 1 need criminal investigation - Former Lancs Police whistleblower.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
2/3. This is not a cell insertion however. The detained person “DP” is already in the cell. And he is “compliant”. There is no violence or threat there of. The officers proceed to assault him and employ cell insertion techniques such as pressure holds. The man is stripped.
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@BBCNews
Unsurprisingly the comment section is full of gaslighters and bullies. At the end of the day this young man was failed by his trainers and the marines. Suicide is an option of last resort. He was broken. A waste of a life. Bullied to death. RIP.
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@nazirafzal
Labours 13,000 more police officers pledge won’t work. 1 in 4 left in the 20,000 more police officers uplift. Half my intake were lost in a year because of bullying, toxic culture and bad management. I was persecuted for whistleblowing and outright wrongfully arrested. 2/3
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@BentexTv
@Ex_arv_sgt
@ICallUOut_
@NorthantsChief
I muted Harry Tangye after he took pop shots at me such as calling me a “sprog” and failed probationer. I feel a bit more vindicated now Tangye’s been put on the spot here. Tangye and people like him took a big 💩 on students careers in the PUP.
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@flaminhaystacks
@supertanskiii
Political lip service. Change shall come from without. The next government won’t wave a magic wand. It won’t change things radically. But politicians in central government are more powerful than the police. The police are not too big and all powerful. Reform is coming.
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@drcmday
I’m a police officer whistleblower in Jones v Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary. There is no access to justice or judicial accountability.
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@RoyaLin10
@UKPoliceWatch
Reform must go deeper than a new code of ethics. The code was updated by the CoP last year to paper over the chasm leftover by the Casey Review. Updating the code is sticking plaster politics.
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@teapots_tea
Thank you. The experience triggered a psychotic episode and I was hospitalised in psychiatric care for a month in Scotland. I’ve followed your experiences. It’s awful. I thought mine was an isolated case. But there’s loads of “blue on blue” abuse that doesn’t get press attention.
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@Chrissietutoruk
There are power couples in managerial positions within public sector organisations. It’s prevalent on the police also. See the Baroness Casey review: “power couple pass insider information around faster than a radio”. You upset one. You upset both. You’re punished.
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@DHPrevention
@LancsPolice
@NHSuk
@LancsPCC
@LancashireCC
@policeconduct
@ICOnews
@CollegeofPolice
2/2 The SMT, led by the now deceased ACC Peter Lawson, made bad decisions way above rank and file pay grade without even internally communicating the decisions. PC’s learned about the decision to release
#NicolaBulley
’s personal details off the news first. Police need reform.
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@YvetteCooperMP
Former police officer whistleblower here. Recruiting more officers is sticking plaster politics. 1 in 4 lost in probation due to bad management and bullying. Police need reform before recruitment. Public trust below 50%. Politicians must show courage and reform police.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
As we know the police have become specialist in conflict escalation rather than conflict resolution. I can attest to the cult of machismo "a probie must win a fight to get conflict resolution skill signed off". If force is relied upon then its the officers who must justify it.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
My civil claims have been fiercely defended by my former employer. Legal fees have totted up in the five figures. They’ve misbehaved and refuse to disclose my custody record. This is unlawful. So we’ve put in for aggravated damages. It just costs the tax payer £££
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@PoliceWatch666
Former student police officer whistleblower here. Toxic culture just as dangerous as the danger cops run towards every shift. Half my intake lost in a year. 1 in 4 lost in probation. More lost after 3 years upon acquiring degree. Whistleblowers punished. External reform needed.
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@NormanBrennan
Police actually doing their jobs by the looks of it. The officers have lost control over the DP though and this is dangerous. DP is against a wall and could kick back and launch himself forward. Are the cuffs applied to the rear effectively? Is this recorded on BWV?
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@Brick_Cop
@TVPFED
@ukhomeoffice
I joined because of that officer but like many new recruits we were treated extremely badly and 5000+ new officers have been lost
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@flaminhaystacks
This should trigger another national inquiry but it won’t. Politicians need to get a grip of these managers across all emergency services.
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@nazirafzal
Former Lancashire police student police officer whistleblower here. You must undertake a culture review into regional police forces like you did with LFB. A student, Anugrah Abraham, in West Yorkshire, took his own life in ‘23. This happened in LFB and triggered inquiry. 1/3
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@DrRebeccaTidy
1/3 Former student police officer whistleblower here. This is assault and false imprisonment. “Cell insertions” are an unpleasant reality of policing. I never enjoyed them but sometimes there’s no choice. Cell insertions must be done with 5 officers and are strictly trained out.
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NHS mental health services a safety net I needed this last year for the first time.
Labour is committed to delivering a fully-funded & full-costed mental health plan to support people who want to work, to be in work.
In our first steps for government, we will bring waiting times down, intervene earlier, & recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health workers 👇
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@NormanBrennan
Former student police officer whistleblower here. You won’t like what I have to say. That officer was rightfully convicted. And raising money for his legal fees is proof of the police’s institutional defensiveness thereby undermining public trust. The older retired cops…1/2
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@AVintenAuthor
Adderley is a bully. His remarks in the press at the start of the uplift programme in 2019 were the writing on the wall. The uplift was doomed from the start. He attacked young officers as “snowflakes” ill equipped to do the tough job of coppering. Bosses must be sacked.
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@A_J_Snowden
Mercifully, Snowden has been gagged. We need Policing Accountability Boards back. I am sure he will continue climbing the greasy political pole when the next local council elections are up for grabs.
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@AVintenAuthor
@ShabnamChaudhri
@nucchidust
As a former white male police officer based in Asian dominated east Lancashire I desperately appreciated the support of Asian female colleagues to police Asian communities. After GMP head stomper and Leeds riots it’s becoming too risky now. I’d get my own head stomped.
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@Samuel_P_Currie
@tomorrowsmps
I was forced out for raising concerns. I’m now an advocate for police reform. A new government will probably reform the police. My experience of the organisation was very negative. Thankfully I’ve got a good CV to fall back on. But many of us feel used by Landon/PCC Snowden.
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@BentexTv
My former chief Constable, Chris Rowley, came over from Humberside police. He announced his shock retirement this year. Not long after ACC Peter Lawson died suddenly age 50 in the wake of the Nicola Bulley fiasco.
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@ReasonableCop
This is extremely bad. Yvette cooper in above her head here. This decision feeds into the establishment narrative that fuels the unrest. Yvette cooper isn’t as strident as her Tory predecessors but her failure to grasp the issues is unacceptable given her political experience
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@ImanZayna
@TheSun
Total loss of public consent. We’re a collection of law abiding citizens, victims of police misconduct and even ex cops. And we have lost all faith. Racists have hijacked the debate turning into multiculturalism gone wrong. WYP failed terribly here.
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@WecopsCaroline
@EmWilliamsOU
Internal management and promotion in the police is shockingly bad. Few people are actually progressed on merit. There’s more transparency in the private sector.
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Pint. Back at work tomorrow. Better pay and conditions but without the bullying in the police. I’ll see Lancashire Constabulary at the Appeal tribunal next year. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice.
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@UKPoliceWatch
The only solution is for politicians to pass law to reform police. But there’s no guarantees of this.
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@TedHastings25
@No1552
@HMICFRS
As always spot on Ted. The uplift money proves investment is not the sole solution. Actual reform through passing legislation only way forward.
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Reform the police.
Today, State of Policing, the annual assessment of policing in England and Wales by
@AndyCookeHMCI
was published.
He explains the key findings and recommendations, including that despite efforts to rebuild public trust, the police are still struggling to get the basics right.
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@RogerthePolice
@LessCrime
I’m a former police officer and now work in a major banks fraud investigation department. White collar financial crime is not looked into by police but it’s still theft. Police cultural attitude to new entrants is bad and there is no respect for private sector “they’re not cops!”
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@404Missing404
@CollegeofPolice
SMT never communicated info internally first. Rank and file first Learned of disclosure from the news. No relationship between SMT and students. Many students were lost. Bad for future of policing.
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@Lucyinbetween
@IainGould
They tried that. Former student police officer whistleblower here recruited in the uplift programme pursuing & Lancashire police for wrongful arrest. College of policy set graduate only entry and taught an additional policing degree which new officers earned whilst working. 1/2
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@DrRebeccaTidy
Yea I get the same treatment. You have a strong online following and so attract more negative attention. They make various fake “sock puppet” accounts and harass folks off the job. It was done by Met cops when officers were dismissed last year for a high profile stop search.
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@Chrissietutoruk
They behave like that. Quite two faced. And they have cronies who lie for them. Some adults never leave the school yard in their head. Who’s running the school then..?
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The millennials are coming out to vote this time.
Labour will not sit by as the Tories leave a generation of young people to become renters for life.
Labour will get Britain building and deliver the change needed to get first-time buyers on the housing ladder 🏘️
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@JSnollygoster
@AVintenAuthor
@JoanneTel
@DameLynneOwens
Got to disagree here buddy. There are lots of social media crusaders who behave far worse.
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@SarahTaylo89428
The country needs people like you to speak up. I’m a former police officer whistleblower and understand first hand these problems. The justice system needs reform.
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@DrRebeccaTidy
Fair question. It’s unbelievable but you’ve got to go through the farce that is a PSD investigation first that is only going to result in no action. The organisation is a spiders web of cronyism. Bosses pick and choose who gets thrown under the bus.
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@ReasonableCop
5000+ new recruits gone of the 20000 recruited in the uplift programme. Half my intake were lost in a year. The job itself is great. Toxic culture, bad management, bullying and a lack of welfare support are the true culprits of retention crisis.
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@DonnaJonesPCC
@WestYorksPolice
@WestYorkFire
Another PCC with no plan and spouting general platitudes. This isn’t about police numbers. It’s about total loss of policing by consent. What are your proposals on police reform? Former police officer whistleblower in neighbouring Lancashire police here.
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@flaminhaystacks
Simply proves these problems exist up and down the country across all emergency services. Toxic culture just as fatal as toxic fumes. Couples row and mistakes are made. The Defendant’s colleagues are worthy of investigation for failing to call him out. Especially station managers
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