Terrorible Times
The backdated-pay debacle is currently at the High Court with both sides battling to influence the judges into siding with them.
For the Government, Jonathan Sumption QC represent the Home Secretary, Jacqui Spliff, claimed that giving officers a full 2.5% rise would not have been unfordable.
In what can only be described as another cynical ploy to win public support he said, "The money could not have been found without using resources from police authority budgets, particularly the counter-terrorism programme."
This is despite the fact that most chief constables & police authorities supported the full award & had already found sufficient funds in the budget to sufficiently cover the award.
So the £12 million needed to cover the reneged agreement has to come from the ‘counter-terrorism’ budget? It can’t come, for instance, from the budget used for MPs expenses & fraudulent claims, or the budget used to fund the £1,000 a month benefit payments to failed terrorists, or the same budget used to hand out fraudulent benefit payments to people such as Shannon Matthews extended family. Or what about the budget used to install even more speed cameras & devices to prosecute even more people by camera thus doing absolutely nothing for road safety other than bringing in millions more in revenue for the government to give away to anyone who wants it (except the police).
The government are on a ‘terrorism’ frenzy instilling fear into as many people as possible, what better way to try to make the cops out to be the bad guys by suggesting that if they get their full award, people will be put in even more danger.
Cynical, me?
