Closing it for Hull Fair is revenge for the Council telling them they needed planning permission. Part of their long running feud with the Council. If it was essential for the fight against terrorism why not put the fence up last December, or even wait until they got planning permission. A nod from the anti-terrorism would have been enough for a 2.4 metre fence to go through. Instead they withdrew their application. The simple explanation is they are full of bullshit. Yes they got some advice but it didn't say block off the walk way apart from match days. They are making the anti-terrorism unit look like idiots. Who in their right minds would think a 2 metre fence would stop anyone?
Lets hope "Gate Gate" hasn't rubbed the council up the wrong way with their pending planning permission for the redevelopment of Rosedowns building.......ahem
The children from East Hull who managed to climb over the fence must have slipped through the net on their return from Syria.
Good old criminglis now blaming the police. 22 minutes ago ColinInglis CI Glanfield's reported statement is disingenuous. The relatively low ranking Council Officers who form part of the Silver Command Team have simply followed Police instructions. No Councillors have been involved in this decision and action and I know of none who approve of it. The Police did a good job last night in forcing open the unlawful SMC gate. Their decision today is stupid, forcing families with young children to walk along narrow footpaths on busy roads when the Walkway provides a much safer route to the Fair. It is now blindingly obvious that the Council can never have a decent working relationship with the SMC and their stewardship of the Stadium must be ended. It is not clever of the Police to be doing the Allams dirty work for them and it is simply not true to say that the alternative routes to the Walkway are safer. If there are accidents or injuries as a result of these decisions, it is very clear where responsibility for them will lie.
Yes As I said it's a different organisation They never said they were told anything by Humberside Police, they said they were told something by NECTU
And that just shows the stupidity of it all, any normal person or business would keep there heads down till the planning was sorted (they may not have got it anyway) but oh no the Allams upset the apple cart. Next will be the claim that the planning application was only rejected because of the gate, and so the ball rolls on.
As I said the NECTU isn't the same organisation as Humberside Police Obviously Police Officers will work for NECTU, but they aren't the same organisation If you actually believe what the club said, which I'm not saying for a minute I do, then they were told by NECTU to put a gate up. That would explain why when Humberside Police were asked if they had told them to put a gate up they said they hadn't Fairly straight forward. All I was saying was the fact that HP hadn't told them to doesn't necessarily mean they were lying in the first place
Be interesting to know how far the applications gone. I imagine the council are stalling and wrapping it in red tape.
I am a security expert. I have never, ever told the Allams or anyone else to install gates of any description anywhere near the KCOM.
I'm not sure why you're quite so intent on repeatedly pointing out that there's different divisions of the police, I don't believe any of the ****ers actually demanded a gate, so it's somewhat irrelevant.
That tweet's not actually about the SMC gate, it's about someone from the council now putting a gate at the other end.
