Travellers on the London Underground are bombarded by British Transport Police’s ‘See it. Say it. Kind it’ bulletins about deserted packages each quarter-hour or so. This extremely annoying message is made worse as they flip the quantity up even additional because the banal slogan closes the announcement. Is the Tube awash with bombs?
The Girls’s Equality Get together and company Quiet Storm have adopted this atrocity for a brand new marketing campaign highlighting violence in opposition to ladies – usually by policemen. One has been convicted of homicide, one other of a sequence of rapes going again years.
‘See it. Say it. Ignore it’ runs alongside a picture of jeering police as one of many boys in blue assaults a lady.
The WEP is demanding a statutory inquiry into UK’s police forces, timed for the current publication of the Casey Overview into the Metropolitan Police, a report so damning that the capital’s drive could also be damaged up into smaller, extra law-abiding items.
Extra energy to the WEP’s collective elbow.
An additional bonus could be if British Transport Police take down their silly, intrusive messages.
MAA artistic scale: 9.
