Rory Geoghegan

🧵 Why a Royal Commission won’t save British policing or make us any safer. It might promise gravitas and free inquiry. But in a system riddled with progressive ideology, how could it possibly deliver for the British people? New Substack 👇

🔔The Bell in Epping must be the most expensive taxpayer-funded hotel in the country, when you consider the policing costs this evening. 🚔Every police van with officers is c.£3.3K per shift. 🧮 I count 12 vans in just this clip (3 PSUs) 💷That's a £40K bill straight away🔥

🚨Our Director, Oliver Laurence, joined @Nanaakua1 to discuss how the government's failure to tackle illegal immigration is driving people onto the streets in Epping and beyond - and putting policing under pressure. 👇

The continued failure to stop the boats and to deport bogus asylum seekers risks public safety and the resilience of policing. Many of the officers descending on Epping probably shouldn't even be working tonight! telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…

More progressive nonsense undermining the safety and maintenance of order within our prisons - to the detriment of prisoners and prison staff alike. You'd be forgiven for thinking the Howard League want prisons to be violent hellholes. Let's make children less safe in prison👇

Whatever else is going on in the Met, it is also suffering from what could be called "selective radical progressive pathological listening disease". 👇

Interesting piece by @rorygeo - I'm totally unconvinced by a Royal Commission for policing. These are decisions for elected officials. “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid…

Kay Burley's idea of "risking everything" is handing an organised criminal thousands of euros/pounds in return for an (often escorted) dinghy ride from an already safe country in order to enter the UK for: ✅ Free healthcare ✅ Free housing ✅ Free meals ✅ Free money ✅ Little…

Another murderous cannabis addict. People will tell you to your face that cannabis is a harmless drug. It's not. Another cannabis addict killing a cat too

Good thread from @G0ADM taking a dive into the Crime Survey for England and Wales - something that many rely on to profess "Britain is getting safer" with little consideration for the weaknesses.

I wonder how the conversation in City Hall went? "Mr Mayor, what would you like to focus on today?" "What are the options?" "Well, police numbers and morale are tanking." "Nah, anything else?" "You could tweet about Palestinian statehood?"

This is well worth a read…Rory has outlined the pitfalls of a Royal Commission (the last one in 1962 evidences those)…and also been self-reflective of past history when it comes to how policing has struggled for the last 2.5 decades…