Every Christmas time, a turkey emerges to be hunted in the festive news vacuum. From Tim Yeo to Charlie Whelan, many have found themselves with the misfortune to have done something wrong when nothing else is happening – so will be pilloried from here to Hogmanay. This season it’s Bob Quick who is being stuffed, and rightly so. David Davis and David Cameron are both basting him, prior to the festive roasting. He’s issued an “unreserved apology” – but, as he’ll know, it goes far beyond that.
It’s a bit rich to complain about the politicisation of the police service and then describe then entire Conservative party as “corrupt”. Quick’s problem is that this cannot be dismissed as a slip of the tongue. A legitimate view, one may argue, but if it’s not political then I don’t know what is. It makes you wonder: is this the view in the upper echelons of the Met?
I suspect this reflects less a party politcial bias and more a deeper, institutional hostility to Boris Johnson deciding to take his seat as chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority and start to stir things up.
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