Never has it been more disgustingly clear whose side police are on between Just Stop Oil and the public

Plod lose plot

NEVER has it been more disgustingly clear whose side the police are on between Just Stop Oil and the distressed public.

Shocking scenes in London shame the already broken Met.

Two cops blithely accompanied the eco halfwits on their latest slow-motion “protest”, deaf to the palpable rage of drivers prevented from getting to work.

One man finally snapped, shoving the sanctimonious middle-class idlers towards the pavement where officers should already have contained them.

The cops sprang to life, wading into him like The Sweeney on a drugs raid.

We take no joy in saying they deserved the derision from bystanders.

Their kid-glove treatment of these road-blocking morons is obscene and has to end.

Cops abroad drag them off the street. Not here, unless they might disrupt, say, a coronation. Expect mass arrests then.

Prince Harry was barred, rightly, from hiring Met officers as bodyguards. Yet that is precisely the service they provide to Just Stop Oil.

They are facilitating and encouraging sociopathic disruption, betraying the public they supposedly serve and ­making up the rules as they go along.

If police won’t keep the streets clear, there is an increasing risk the public will.

Bankers’ bunk

WHY does anyone still take IMF economic forecasts seriously?

Remember Labour, and Remainers generally, seizing on its previous report saying we were plunging into recession? We would be the worst-performing big economy this year, they sneered, and it was all the Brexit-backing Tories’ fault.

Now the IMF does a 180-degree pivot, upgrading us into positive territory ahead of Germany. From the doom-mongers? Silence . . . or pathetic attempts to justify continued gloom.

The IMF and Bank of England have a woeful record, repeatedly embarrassed by our resilience. Yet Labour treat every negative utterance as if from God.

The IMF does say we cannot grow much without many of our 5.2million jobless getting back to work.

That, at least, it HAS got right.

Off their Eds

A VOTE for the Lib Dems is for trans madness and the erasing of women’s identity.

Leader Ed Davey thinks women can have a penis. He also wants biological males who self-identify as female to use women’s loos, changing rooms and jails. That was too dangerous even for the SNP.

Do Lib Dem voters in leafy shires have any clue how extreme Davey’s mob are? Or is his lunacy never advertised on the doorstep, or in leaflets? Funny, that.

If Labour needs Lib Dem support to govern, expect Davey to be Deputy PM.

He and Keir Starmer would then embed woke fanaticism in No10, to the detriment of every woman in Britain.