Good for Donna Jones.
Hampshire Tory police and crime commissioner Donna Jones has stubbornly refused to back down over a controversial statement that appeared to justify the activities of the far right and riots up and down the UK.
Ms Jones had said in the statement posted online on Saturday night that arresting thugs was “treating the symptom and not the cause” before it was deleted after attracting widespread criticism. She put the statement back on the official website for Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner but with a clarification statement underlining she does not condone the violent scenes.
Good for her. What is good for the BLM goose is good for the English gander. Nothing she said was either controversial or wrong.
But it has since emerged that Ms Jones removed it because she referenced her role as chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners. She kept the statement on her Facebook page and then around 3pm, just as far-right thugs were besieging and setting fire to a migrant hotel in Rotherham, she put it back on the Hampshire PCC official website.
Critics had reacted furiously to the language in her statement which appeared to put the blame on migrants and a “lack of British values”.
A lack of British values is exactly why we are here.
In a tweet sharing the statement, former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal branded it “totally unacceptable”.
A useful litmus test is who finds her reasonable comments ‘totally unacceptable’ and here we are. Well done Nazir Afzal, you pressed all the right buttons. Well done Ms Jones for daring to speak the truth when all about are dealing in lies.
*Critics had reacted furiously to the language in her statement which appeared to put the blame on migrants and a “lack of British values”*.
Hit the elephant in the corner right between the eyes.
S’funny how when they can’t refute the truth of a statement they call out ‘the language’. This is always a tell for liars and hypocrites.
Donna Jones. I hope that her words, candour and of course herself, are never fogotten. When it came to the bit, she did not buckle.
I hope she realises the support she has.
The Hampshire PCC website mentioned has a contact form. Nothing to stop anyone dropping her a line. Of course it might be full of astroturf poison-pen stuff, but still.
She’s been in local politics near me for quite some time and has always been sound. Stopped the gypsies from taking over Wickham and surrounding roads for horse and buggy racing a couple of years back amongst other things.
Is ‘The Hampshire Bowman’ still near you Phil?
Fabulous bub when Stan was there…