Stupid and dangerously insensitive - this Labour idiot should hang her head in shame

When Government ministers have nothing useful to say – it's best if they just shut the Hell up for fear of looking horrifically and dangerously insensitive, not to mention stupid.

And that’s exactly how Home Office minister and MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, looked this week when, on social media, she paid her respects to the SEVEN people who died in that horrific head-on collision between two police officers and five dangerous thugs.

Yep, Turley, speaking in her capacity as a halfwit, had the brass neck - not to mention the callousness - to equate the deaths of two respected police officers with the deaths of the five criminals who killed them.

Seriously? Is this how twisted the mindset of Labour ministers works these days? Are they so desperate to “ emote” that they pay their “respects” to the criminals who recklessly killed two much-respected officers who were trying to stop them?

Turley even had the gall to attack Nick Timothy, the Tory MP who called out her crassness and who said “it didn’t feel right” for her to honour the lives of those five young men who, between them, had 37 criminal convictions.

“I’m dismayed Nick Timothy would try and use a horrific situation that has deeply affected my community and my police force for a cheap political tweet,” said Turley.

NO luv, that what you did in paying your respects to those five dead criminals who killed two policemen.
The woman just doesn’t get it. She’s not reading the mood in the country, let alone in her own constituency, because the people there are sick to death of the thugs who rampage through their streets every night, causing carnage.

Doesn’t Turley get that most of the country will wholeheartedly agree with Nick Timothy?
And maybe it was Turley’s abject stupidity in paying her respects to those criminals that encouraged their masked-up thug pals to pay a grotesque tribute to them by setting off balloons and revving their motorbike engines whilst hailing them heroes.

While we’re all conditioned not to speak ill of the dead – in this particular case we surely shouldn’t be paying our respects to thugs who died in the process of killing two police officers.
Because it’s the ultimate insult to the devastated families of PC Tom Clough and PC Matthew Blades who would still be alive today if they hadn’t answered the call to try and stop these offenders.

What a heartbreaking waste of two good, honest and decent lives. What a tragedy for their children, their wives, their families. And Yes, if we’re talking waste, the death of those five thugs DOES equate to wasted lives. But let’s get real here - what happened to them happened because of the bad choices THEY made.

But it really was only a matter of time before they got seriously hurt - or killed - especially in light of the fact that 17 people have now been arrested on suspicion of organised crime, drug dealing and possessing firearms.

Sadly, I fear the fate of those lads had already been written on account of the fact of who they are, where they grew up and the people who influenced them. Their “end” was almost inevitable. It was always odds on that with what they were doing that death could be a consequence.

And now it is. Yes, it’s sad. But their deaths should not be equated to or even talked about in the same breath as the deaths of those two police officers who died needlessly at their hands. These were young men who just didn’t care that what they were doing could kill and wreck the lives of whole families for years to come.
Matthew Blades and Tom Clough are the heroes in this tragic scenario.
They died trying to protect us from what happened to them. And THAT’S the real travesty here.

It’s why when we criticise cops – and we all do at some point - we have to remember they have little choice but to face the likes of those five lads because if they didn’t innocent members of the public could be hurt or killed.
We must never forget that every day these men and women run into danger while the rest of us run away from it. And to say my heart goes out to the families of those two officers doesn’t begin to explain how I feel about their deaths – the rage, the waste, the pointlessness, the sheer damned unfairness of it.

The fact is, if the five young men in that car had survived after crashing into and killing those two PC’s, they’d have been charged with manslaughter at the very least because they were illegally, and at speed, driving the wrong way down the A66. Those lads didn’t just cause their own deaths but the deaths of two much loved and respected officers - traits those lads, in life, would have laughed at. But ultimately, they had a choice about what they did. The two police officers did not. But the lads chose to do it anyway so they could post their “ heroics” on social media for the delectation of the sickos who revel in what they do.

So, I won’t waste my tears or my “respects” on those five criminals. I’ll save them for those two hero police officers whose loss is being felt all over the country.

And Thank God for the fantastic British people who have come together and raised more than £750,00 to help the devastated families of PCs Blades and Clough. It won’t bring them back, but it will show those broken families that many of us care deeply about what happened to Tom and Matthew and will never forget their sacrifice.