The Political Hat

     Without one of those rare “loicenses”, dissent in the U.K. is effectively dead. The British police will hunt you down for wrongthink expressed on social media or otherwise criticize those above the law.   But now, not just dissent and criticism, but also complaints about a parents’ school made to other parents.!

“A couple have criticised police after they were arrested for making complaints about their daughter’s primary school.

“Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine say they were detained by six Hertfordshire police officers in front of their young daughter on 29 January, after they were arrested on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications, and causing a nuisance on school property.

“They told The Times they were fingerprinted and searched before being left in a police cell for eight hours. No further action was taken following a five-week investigation.

“The couple said the arrest came after their nine-year-old daughter Sascha’s school, Cowley Hill Primary School, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, raised objections over them sending multiple emails and raising criticisms on a parents’ WhatsApp group.

“They said they had previously been blocked from entering the school after taking issue with the process for appointing a head teacher and ‘casting aspersions’ on the chair of governors. They said this meant they were not allowed to attend Sascha’s parents’ evening or her Christmas performance. They said the ban also meant they couldn’t provide crucial medical information to teachers, relating to their child, who is disabled, neurodivergent, and has epilepsy.”

A video of the arrest:

I cannot remember the last time I saw six police officers together in Britain. But here they are, arresting two parents, in front of their children, for complaining about their local school in a Whatsapp group. Britain is completely and utterly lost. It used to be the home of… pic.twitter.com/racQv3OE83

— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) March 28, 2025

     To make matters even more Orwellian, the parents weren’t even told what they said that was doubleplusungood!   Difficult to show the arrests were for “harassment” when they won’t tell us what the purported harassment actually was.

“‘It was absolutely nightmarish. I couldn’t believe this was happening, that a public authority could use the police to close down a legitimate inquiry.

“‘We’d never used abusive or threatening language, even in private, and always followed due process. Yet we have never even been told what these communications were that were supposedly criminal, which is completely Kafkaesque.’

“…

“The couple said the arrests came after Mr Allen, who had until recently been on the board of governors, had written to school governors in May 2024 wanting answers over why an open recruitment process had not been initiated after the head teacher announced his retirement half a year earlier. He said he hoped for more transparency from the school but instead, he said, his questions were rebuffed.”