Swifts, Wankers and Privilege - a politics blog.
By Elizabeth Swan on
A few things have made me upset and then really fucking angry this week. Last night one of my subs sent me an article from The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/03/noted-surrey-colony-of-at-risk-swifts-destroyed-during-nesting-season
The thought of swifts flying around and around hopelessly looking for their nests and those bloated overpaid suits who manage projects such as this, counting their money and knowing that there would be no penalty, filled me with rage. There are no consequences that mean anything to those people. As I write this, there is still not one suit sent to prison for Grenfell.
Unlike people who write tweets or go on protests. There is two tier justice in this country and there always has been. It is between the people who have power and influence and the people who haven’t. People who are educated who can afford proper lawyers, not the grunts that the police give you if you ever have the misfortune of being in a police cell.
The idea that the police and the government deny that there is, illustrates what they think of us.
From time to time, power and influence shift. It has been decades since the police mounted an undercover police operation on the Stephen Lawrence family in an attempt to dig up dirt which they could use to apply pressure so his mother would just shut the fuck up about her murdered son and go away. The fallout from that was a pivotal moment in policing as it showed the police for what they were. Racist.
Then after Black Lives Matter, that too changed police policy so they were no longer supposed to look at people with colour blindness. They were now supposed to treat ethnic minorities as different. And so they did and that spread out throughout all the public servants, through the government, the social services and down to ordinary people like you and me. People such as the security man who saw an asian man looking dodgy in the Manchester Arena and didn’t report it as he was afraid of appearing racist.
Then there are those pesky grooming gangs that enjoy raping underage white working class girls. When the police were told to act they dismissed the girls as prostitutes who just had older boyfriends. Can you imagine Tommy Robinson plying a thirteen year old girl with booze, passing her around to all his mates and getting away with it? I don’t think so.
Watch Three Girls on BBC if you are in any doubt of how those girls were treated by the social services and by the police.
Which brings me to the police and Henry Nowak.
We shouldn’t be so polarized that we can only believe one thing. This should have been a much bigger story when it happened. Now I think Elon Musk is a mad wanker, but I am also glad that he picked this story up and shone a light on it. Those saying Farage is politically point scoring are missing the teenager being handcuffed on the floor, choking on his own blood. The left desperately tries to ignore these stories because god forbid they would have to do something if they realised that something has gone a bit wrong.
Saying that Farage is inciting racial hatred doesn’t really work when protesters are going after the police and not after Sikhs. There are no people attacking Gurdwara's. The Sikhs themselves didn’t want the murdering little prick, in fact they had reported him to the police for stealing some of their knives.
But the police did nothing. Similar to the ugly bastard in Southport who had also been reported.
Now I don’t know if that was because of police incompetence or the new anti racist policy implemented after BLM, but both men could have been prevented from going on to murder.
This is not about left or right. This is about having a police force who are utterly unaccountable. No policeman will get sent to prison for this, they will just be pensioned off.
If they get investigated they will get looked at by their old colleagues at the IOPC. The Independent Office For Police Conduct.
Independent. What a joke.
Being utterly unaccountable for your actions no matter which way the wind is blowing. Now that’s privilege.
Elizabeth Swan