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19 June 2009

"And cue the politically correct..."

"... loonies in three, two, one..."
Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under their counter-­terrorism powers – simply to ­provide a racial balance in official statistics, the government's official anti-terror law watchdog has revealed.

"I can well understand the concerns of the police that they should be free from allegations of prejudice," he said.

"But it is not a good use of precious resources if they waste them on self-evidently unmerited searches."
Oh, Britannia... we're gonna miss ya.

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