Labour Police Boss Blasted After Handing £5,000 of Taxpayers’ Cash To Help Save Liverpool Pride
A Labour Police and Crime Commissioner is catching flak for splashing £5,000 of taxpayers’ cash on Liverpool Pride – just weeks before a judge ruled coppers marching in such parades were breaking impartiality rules. The Mailhas the story.
Emily Spurrell, a former councillor and PCC for Merseyside, made the donation of public money to “save” Liverpool Pride, which was under threat because of a shortage of funds.
The cash from her office – which was the top donation of any organisation or individual – helped the event to go ahead as planned, on July 26th.
Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell on the left
But just days earlier Northumbria Police was admonished by the High Court for allowing uniformed police officers to march under a Progress flag promoting transgender ideology at a Pride march last year.
In his ruling, Mr Justice Linden said it was “contrary to the uniformed officers’ duties of impartiality”, as well as Northumbria Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine’s “own duty of impartiality, to participate in the 2024 march, in Newcastle, in the way that they did”.
His judgement had immediate repercussions for police forces nationwide, with some opting to ban their officers from marching and taking part in such future events – unless policing it in an official capacity.
Yesterday critics said Ms Spurrell’s decision to make the donation when the High Court case was “on the horizon” was “an extraordinary misuse of public funds” and “simply stupefying.” …
Under police regulations, which are set out in legislation, officers have a duty to act with impartiality and must avoid activities likely to interfere with the impartial discharge of their duties.
Allowing Northumbria police officers to march in Newcastle’s 2024 Pride in the City parade, and to staff a police stall decorated in the colours of the Progress flag, alongside a van painted in the same design, breached that duty, the judge found.
Linzi Smith
He agreed with lawyers for Linzi Smith, a lesbian who brought the case against the Northumbria force, that when police officers appeared in uniform or under official branding while displaying the Progress flag, it suggested an alignment or support for gender ideology or transgender rights.
Dismissal, and investigated for misappropriation of funds – so theft!
Matt Dalby
8 months ago
The problem is that the High Court ruling said that Northumbria Police acted unlawfully, it didn’t mention other police forces. Although it sets a fantastic legal precedent it didn’t ban other police forces from allowing uniformed officers to actively participate in Pride. In theory this means that some forces may think they can still get away with it because very few people will have to time or financial backing to launch legal action against them and obviously Liebour isn’t going to change the law to ban this sort of activism.
Such spending must surely be ultra vires. Someone should challenge this. What is the point oif budgets if budget holders can support any agenda they favour without accountability.
It is not adequate accountability for him to be asked to account for his decision by the PCC or an audit committee. The legality needs to be challenged and the money taken from his pocket.
It amounts to a corrupt payment and demonstrates he is in breach of his oath to police wiuthout favour. He must be sacked – not allowed to resign but dismissed with prejudice.
It is time for direct democracy in this country. Local and national decisions must only be made by the people voting for such issues.
At election time, all parties must list each of their policies and then the voters put a mark (tick those it agrees with and a cross against those it does not want). Then, the winning party can only implement, by law, those policies with the most votes.
Also, all the legislation at national and local level must also be voted on by the people when it comes to enacting a law or local policies. The MPs and Local Councillors will only advise rhe people and argue for and against an issue, and do the committee work.
Proper democracy.
Of course the majority of local councillors these days do not get to vote at all as councils use the ‘cabinet’ system where just a few councillors are made ‘cabinet members’ and make decisions on their briefs. I am not aware that there are even cabinet meetings where they vote. If this strikes you as democratically deficient you would be correct.
Richard Austin
8 months ago
It doesn’t impress me when some idiot decides he knows how to spend my money.
This article is excellent and I’m very glad the author wrote it because it’s what I bang on about on here on the regular. Female traitors screwing over other women, empowering a dangerous and pervasive ideology and demonstrating their own version of misogyny. It also highlights why any sane woman who values her sex-based rights and safety of her children should stay well away from all things ‘gender ideology’ but also feminism, as the two now go hand in hand. After all, even Sadiq Khan identifies as a feminist, so doesn’t that tell you all you need to know about the complete inversion of this now entirely redundant movement? The amount of high profile, influential women on board with this should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves; ”To gender-critical feminists, the social contagion of transactivism (enforced mainstreaming of trans ideology) is all down to perverted ”men and their misogyny” Men started it; men must stop it. It’s a (white) male supremacist, men’s rights movement, privileging the reality show of ‘gender’ over the reality of sex, while normalising paedophilia, porn, prostitution or their variants. Women have nothing to do with it. After all, misogyny is what’s done to—not by—women. Rightly, these women denounce transactivism. But framing it… Read more »
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Easy enough to dock the money from the Emily Spurrell’s salary.
Damned right.
Dismissal, and investigated for misappropriation of funds – so theft!
The problem is that the High Court ruling said that Northumbria Police acted unlawfully, it didn’t mention other police forces. Although it sets a fantastic legal precedent it didn’t ban other police forces from allowing uniformed officers to actively participate in Pride. In theory this means that some forces may think they can still get away with it because very few people will have to time or financial backing to launch legal action against them and obviously Liebour isn’t going to change the law to ban this sort of activism.
Such spending must surely be ultra vires. Someone should challenge this. What is the point oif budgets if budget holders can support any agenda they favour without accountability.
It is not adequate accountability for him to be asked to account for his decision by the PCC or an audit committee. The legality needs to be challenged and the money taken from his pocket.
It amounts to a corrupt payment and demonstrates he is in breach of his oath to police wiuthout favour. He must be sacked – not allowed to resign but dismissed with prejudice.
She.
It is time for direct democracy in this country. Local and national decisions must only be made by the people voting for such issues.
At election time, all parties must list each of their policies and then the voters put a mark (tick those it agrees with and a cross against those it does not want). Then, the winning party can only implement, by law, those policies with the most votes.
Also, all the legislation at national and local level must also be voted on by the people when it comes to enacting a law or local policies. The MPs and Local Councillors will only advise rhe people and argue for and against an issue, and do the committee work.
Proper democracy.
Of course the majority of local councillors these days do not get to vote at all as councils use the ‘cabinet’ system where just a few councillors are made ‘cabinet members’ and make decisions on their briefs. I am not aware that there are even cabinet meetings where they vote. If this strikes you as democratically deficient you would be correct.
It doesn’t impress me when some idiot decides he knows how to spend my money.
This article is excellent and I’m very glad the author wrote it because it’s what I bang on about on here on the regular. Female traitors screwing over other women, empowering a dangerous and pervasive ideology and demonstrating their own version of misogyny. It also highlights why any sane woman who values her sex-based rights and safety of her children should stay well away from all things ‘gender ideology’ but also feminism, as the two now go hand in hand. After all, even Sadiq Khan identifies as a feminist, so doesn’t that tell you all you need to know about the complete inversion of this now entirely redundant movement? The amount of high profile, influential women on board with this should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves; ”To gender-critical feminists, the social contagion of transactivism (enforced mainstreaming of trans ideology) is all down to perverted ”men and their misogyny” Men started it; men must stop it. It’s a (white) male supremacist, men’s rights movement, privileging the reality show of ‘gender’ over the reality of sex, while normalising paedophilia, porn, prostitution or their variants. Women have nothing to do with it. After all, misogyny is what’s done to—not by—women. Rightly, these women denounce transactivism. But framing it… Read more »