CONDON’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION
by The Back Hall Inspector
DURING the past two years the police service throughout Britain, but particularly London's Metropolitan Police, has experienced a number of unsettling developments which seem designed to steer it away from political impartiality and towards the role of enforcer for the "politically correct" cult. The popular press have identified Sir Paul Condon, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, as being the High Priest of the cult. This is an exaggeration. His role is nearer to that of an altar boy. Senior adepts of the cult are not only to be found in predictable lairs: academia, the media and special interest pressure groups but also within the ranks of Home Office personnel who have an input into policy-making in the area of 'social control'. The most daunting problem facing those concerned with 'social control' is the interaction between two distinct post-war developments: 1) The disintegration of the British Empire coupled with the impact of new international trading structures (GATT, EEC, etc.) caused the withering-away of Biitain's manufacturing industry. Now the nation's wealth-producing capacity is out of balance with the size of its population. 2) The introduction into this situation of economic decline of the surplus population of the West Indies, Asia and Africa. The consequences of these two developments could have been forseen. Indeed they were forseen, as Cabinet papers released under the 30 year rule verify. During the 1980s a series of riots tore.apart 'inner-city' areas throughout England. The immediate cause of these riots was hatred for the police on the part of a majority of the Black community - not just its criminal under-class. This hatred was born of a belief that the police were subjecting Black people to "racist persecution". This 'persecution' amounted to wholly proper police efforts to suppress drug-dealing, mugging, handbag snatching and other violent street crimes (of a type virtually unknown in pre-war Britain) in which the perpetrators were mainly Blacks and their victims mainly Whites. The riots culminated in the October 1985 Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, north London, in which Police Constable Keith Blakelock was hacked to death. These disturbances caused great anxiety to police officers who had to quell them - but they utterly terrified the nation's political and financial ‘Establishment’. In the years before we began to experience the public order problems characteristic of multi-racial societies the world over, the "Establishment' promulgated the notion that people of West Indian or Asian ancestry born and brought up in thiscountry would, thereby, be British in outlook and conduct and would, as a result, achieve 'integration'. But the inner-city riots of the 1980s destroyed this theory. The rioters were born and educated in Britain. They yelled abuse in authentic Scouser, Brummie and Cockney accents. 'Establishment' theorists now hold that 'integration'is an impossible and/or undesirable objective. With much use of buzz-words like 'Pluralism' and 'multi-cultural' they see virtue in the ethnic Balkanisation of.British society. These thinkers are terrified of the consequences should further 'race riots' erupt. In their worst-case scenario a spiral of public order catastrophies is envisaged which would require the Army to be deployed in support of the civil power. Such a circumstance could plunge Britain into political, economic and administrative chaos; the 'Establishment' would be grievously, perhaps fatally, wounded. Even in their best-case scenario, enormous damage would be done to life, limb, property, business confidence, etc. So at the behest of the Home Office the police service now has as its top priority the doing (or the refraining from doing) whatever is necessary to prevent any further Black uprisings. Since this policy was created to achieve a political rather than a policing objective, it necessitates a change of culture within the police service. This process, in turn, requires an extensive change of personnel, beginning at the top. Thus we arrive at the true reason why Paul Condon was appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and why 'Condon Clones' are on the promotion fast-track in every constabulary throughout the land.
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