Juggling With EggsWill historians look back and wonder why the police focused their efforts on Quaker Meeting Houses and never Tufton Street or the private clubs of Mayfair?
"We cannot get into a situation where groups planning criminal acts can escape police action simply by booking rooms in certain venues”
Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman
I refer you to my previous point.
https://news.sky.com/story/15-activists-arrested-over-mass-shoplifting-campaign-plot-13515889
Gentleman’s clubs have actually been belatedly acknowledged as crime scenes. Chris Pincher’s sexual assaults at the Carlton Club brought down the Tory government, but no criminal proceedings.
Former Tory MP, Patrick Spencer also allegedly carried out sexual assaults at the Groucho club…but we’re still waiting for justice to be served and he still sits in Parliament.
Does the Met serve the interests of gay and female victims of crime?
Most recent update I could find on last night’s arrests for conspiracy to shoplift at a Quaker Meeting House:
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/03/06/quaker-meeting-raided-by-metropolitan-police/
64 Islands Aroha Cooperative@JugglingWithEggs they were planning SHOPLIFTING? call in the airstrikes!
Yup, never mind that it’s going to take a decade to clear the huge backlog of court cases even if we give up trial by jury…the government wants to prosecute those just contemplating shoplifting.
zbrown@JugglingWithEggs @airshipper allegedly contemplating maybe one day possibly shoplifting, potentially
@zbrown @JugglingWithEggs wouldn't want to be in a book circle discussing 'fight club', they'd arrest the whole neighbourhood