"Met tries to distract from its own horrendous recent record, while pitching for yet more power to clamp down on whoever they feel like"

I mean…good? People work with oil because it’s cheap. If protests are a way of making it costly, then it’s doing its job.

Why is the default thought to just “Wait until the protests are over”?

I want to love but who am I kidding, the Met's obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.

These figures are totally made up.

I’m sure they can sell or loan of one or two stolen artifacts to pay for what amounts to a drop of money in their annual spending.

Those are rookie numbers; gotta pump those numbers up.

Well, just stop oil then :)

Oh no... Anyway