On 25 November 2008, The Daily Mail quoted Marie Cragg thus:

The Mail added:

I wonder why you “never see them”?

Maybe it’s because the deputy chief constable of Lancashire, a spokesman on homosexual issues, thinks the boys-in-pink should “turn a blind eye to outdoor sexual activity.”

I wonder why the Deputy Chief Constable thinks it’s OK for homosexual “outdoor sexual activity” to be taking place “near a primary school” and, for that matter, I wonder why those homosexuals who engage in it think it’s OK too?

The homosexuals who got caught “didn't care and just carried on”. Why was that, do you think? “Why can't they do it in the privacy of their own homes?” Asked Mrs Cragg, quite reasonably. Don’t they care if their in-your-face behaviour upsets people?

I guess not. Once upon a time the top cops took measures against those who seemed to relish upsetting others. Nowadays, our PC overlords seem happy to encourage such aggressive insensitivity when it is expressed by a crude minority at the expense of an bewildered majority.

Here’s something Mike Cunningham doesn’t think we should “turn a blind eye” to:

On Saturday 13 October 2007, at the annual Gay Police Association Dinner & Dance, Cunningham said this:

http://www.bawp.org/assets/file/Over...mer%202008.pdf

Steady on, Cunningham, your "justification" remark seems to be suggesting that there might, indeed, be good reason for acting out "homophobic behaviour" now and again!

Like, perhaps, if a woman and her kids stumble across a couple of bottom robbers getting stuck in near a school? In such a case, might it be OK for her to aim a few, well-chosen, "homophobic" epithets at the miscreants?

I'm a bit confused here, Deputy Chief Constable. Are you saying that, if she wanted to join the police force after telling them off, well, she "need not apply" because, even though she might be a tad "justified" in complaining, anyone who WOULD do do couldn't possibly be the kind of person that would match up to PC requirements in this day and age?

The quarterly newsletter of the Gay Police Association. reporting on the 2008 Annual General Meeting of the GPA, told us this:

I bet they had a good laugh at that one, don’t you?

I wonder, if any of us had taken the mickey out of the Gay Police Association, within the earshot of an upwardly mobile, on-message Brian Paddick type, do you think we might have been arrested?

It’s queer old world, alright.

This is Mike Cunningham: