Wait until you find out the Met's budget *
We have exactly the same questions here though about the cuts to social services, mental health services, etc. and whether funds allocated to the police could be better allocated to achieve a restorative system of justice.
I think some of the money spent on police in this country could probably be better directed into other services. We spend an awful lot more per capita on policing than Scandinavian countries. It's certainly not 'nonsense' to question why.
No he's not. He's either demonstrating that he doesn't understand what 'defund the police means' or that he is wilfully misrepresenting it to appeal to his intended voter demographic: 'but don't all lives matter?'.
* £3.4 billion
You haven’t got a clue mate.
First up, NYC is half the size of London and has a budget of $6.4 billion. Yes the populations are roughly the same, but area matters when talking of policing.
You are taking messages from another country and applying them here, then criticising a sound bite from the opposition leader kn morning tv.
Get a hobby. Or get a clue.
If you keep criticising flat bat responses from the opposition leader, you’ll waste a term. The Conservatives are clearly going to float or even pursue trials without juries pretty soon.
If something like that manifests you could have 40,000 Mary Poppins as Police Officers, and still see minority ethnic communities further pushed down. The slogan ‘Defund the Police’ is of no value or consequence in England.
And finally.... if you think Starmer doesn’t care about this stuff, you’ve only got to look back to the last few PMQ’s. He’s quoted, while holding, the governments own reviews into various issues touching race or inequality. That’s how he works. He’s urged them to be implemented and asked when they will be.
He’s simply not going to blather away in support of something that can’t be contained within an already existing frame. There’s no upside to a misstep.
There will come a time when he has to ‘Say something’. To write some policy proposals. But that time sure as shit isn’t now. He’s got 4 years. Don’t rush it.