[mytailorisrich]

Issues of standards are not really depending on funding but on organisation and leadership.

The issue mentioned above, and many others that have made the news, are down to the Met police management and leadership, which is not supposed to be political. The Mayor is effectively the Police and Crime Commisioner so he has a direct involvement, and again is currently Labour if we want to assign political 'blame'.

My point is that immediately blaming the Tories for everything and anyhting because "that's what you get when you vote Tory" is a knee jerk reaction.

[efaref]

> Issues of standards are not really depending on funding

This is clearly not true, otherwise we could just cut all the funding and maintain the standards as they are.

[mytailorisrich]

We're discussing standards or professional conduct.

Funding gets you more police officers but their conduct depends on management and leadership, not on extra funding (at least as long as funding allows for decent salaries).

In this case, and again others that have hit the news, funding is quite irrelevant, the issue is organisational.