Nothing To Lose by Steven Suttie

Author:Steven Suttie [Suttie, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-03T22:00:00+00:00

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“What the hell is going on in this country?” Read the headline from the Daily Mirror’s website. This was not a sub-editor’s choice of headline, but a quote from the leader of the Government’s opposition party. In a long and damning TV interview, the politician slammed the state of the nation’s most vital services, specifically the police, in a long and often bitter response to this appalling news coming out of Manchester.

“It is an incredible thought, that a poor young woman has been murdered, and her best friend has tried to get the police to investigate her disappearance, and this lady’s requests for help have been ignored by the very people who are employed to be there for us. I have been a politician for a long time, over forty-years, but I have never known of such a scandal as the one which we are currently hearing about today. I find it inconceivable that this once great country, the very country which invented the world’s very first police force in 1829, can today find itself so under-funded, under-manned and over-stretched, that it cannot satisfy a most-basic task of police work, that a missing person’s report has been denied on the basis of a technicality. What the hell is going on in this country? We’ve got record levels of crime and disorder, we have murders on the streets of our cities every day, we have youths running amok, knowing that there are no police officers to challenge them. No matter which political party you support, we should all be angry, furious with the way things are going in this country, a time when our Chief Constables are campaigning for a ban on fireworks because whole communities are being terrorised by a small handful of yobs. We should be incensed that we have opened the door to disorder and criminality in order to save money. We have lost over twenty-five thousand police officers at a time where our population is growing faster than at any time before, our communities are becoming more and more fragmented and divided. This matter has to be addressed right now, and I am calling for a root and branch inquiry into the death of Lindsey Nolan, and the role of the Manchester City Police in the handling of her friend’s missing persons report. I call on every person watching this, or reading this, to tell the government that enough is enough. I’d like to send my deepest condolences to the friends and family of this poor young woman.”

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