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Thread #163234 Message #3892185
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
04-Dec-17 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Damian Green
Subject: RE: BS: Damian Green
From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 04 Dec 17 - 07:29 AM
The policeman hasn't got any superiors. He's retired. And your attitude to people with disabilities is disgusting. I'd like to hear any of your comrades here defend that despicable, gratuitous "one-eyed Brown" comment. Christ knows why you feel you have to do that sort of thing.
It's not so much about the porn, Stu, though you are trivialising it a bit too much in my view. It's more about the integrity and honesty of the man who is May's second-in-command. Read d'Ancona's Guardian article. It may well be that the policeman decided to blow the whistle after he'd he heard about sex-pest allegations (by a Tory woman!) against Green. He went public a few days after that came out. It. Is fully in the public interest that this bloke is investigated, and the establishment furore is just so bloody fake and so predictable. I see we have Cressida Dick throwing the protecting veil around Green now. Well she knows all about the establishment rushing to one's aid, doesn't she?
First things first, I agree with you about the "One-eyed Brown" slur. That was totally unnecessary and I would have said so earlier if it wasn't that I was reading this thread for the first time.
As for 'it's fully in the public interest that this bloke is investigated', I would have to say that if it must be done it should be done under the rule of law.
The original raid on Green's parliamentary offices was questionable.
The release of information by an ex-cop who had no reason to have retained information which should only have been retained in secure police files (if there was reason to retain it at all) does nothing to help justice.
We have laws about Data Protection for a reason, and much of the time it is to protect us all. Civil Servants (including the police) should receive frequent reminders of their responsibilities when dealing with personal information.
Generally, it should not be copied without good reason. It should be retained in a secure way, it should not be taken from the relevant office without good reason. Data protection UK Gov
The Data Protection Act allows you to ask any organisation what information they hold about you. If the police had deleted their files on the matter they would not have known that there was any information held, if Green had requested details.