The Teams meeting, she later told the Telegraph, was chaired by a white female inspector who ran it fairly and with some firmness, and who was under what Elaine describes as constant pressure from the Muslim men participating. The meeting’s governing concern, within hours of two Jews being murdered at their synagogue by an Islamist, was the potential threat to mosques. The inspector repeated, several times, that there was no intelligence of danger to any Islamic place of worship. One is not sure quite what to say about the decision to frame an emergency meeting about an attempted Yom Kippur massacre around the anxieties of the community whose ideology had produced it. Except that, when Elaine finally said something, the response was instructive. She told the meeting they had to address the elephant in the room:
‘We know who the attacker is and what community he comes from. We’ve got to be able to address this openly, and if we can’t do it here, there’s no hope.’
The chair immediately talked over her. The following morning the meeting reconvened, the female inspector replaced, without explanation, by a Muslim male inspector.
Shortly after, Bradford District Commander Richard Padwell wrote to inform Elaine of her removal. Her comments had been ‘divisive and inflammatory’; legal advice supported the view that she had failed to demonstrate the impartiality required of a chair. The letter also noted, and this is the detail that repays the most careful attention, that her comments were not being recorded as a hate crime, and that he would not be providing her personal details to the community members who had expressed concerns about what she had said.
Can you say 'The fix is in'?
I knew you could.
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