The London Assembly has passed a vote of no confidence – 15 votes to 8 – in Met Commissioner, Ian Blair.
Blair said that he won’t resign but will “survive”. A luxury Jean Charles de Menzes doesn’t have.
All 7 Liebour members of the London Assembly voted against the vote of no confidence. Ken Livingstone has given him his backing which is as good a reason as any for sacking him.
The President of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), Ken Jones, said “we not that the assembly divided largely along political lines” and “the prism of party interests is a flawed perspective from which to judge those who are called upon to make life or death judgements” when condemning the vote of no confidence.
I wonder if Mr Jones has considered that it is more likely that it is the Liebour contingent who all voted to support their man, rather than an unlikely cross-party alliance of four parties (Conswervative, Illiberal Dipshits, Greens and One London), that are playing the party politics game? Could it be that the Liebour members in the Liebour-controlled GLA, with their Liebour mayor, are supporting their Liebour Met Police Chief because he’s a party stooge?
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I honestly never thought I’d say this about someone with the surname “Blair”, but in this case, Sir Ian has my full support. The Met made a horrendous mistake, of that there is no doubt, but the resignation (or firing) of Sir Ian Blair – who had only been in the job just over 6 months – serves no purpose other than to waste thousands of taxpayers’ money in a pathetic face-saving exercise.