You’d only spend it on sweets
Maybe you couldn’t really give a monkey’s about civil liberties, freedom of speech and all that hairy liberal guff that doesn’t get a look in on that Noel Edmonds vehicle you’re obssessed with.
But all this curtailment of liberty don’t come cheap. How much has making a martyr of Brian Haw cost the taxpayer for instance? What price persecuting, not to mention giving him more publicity than he could ever have dreamed of, a man who annoys only chinless researchers, bag carriers, and those with guilty consciences?
Troops in Iraq might have had to buy their own gear - and some have to go without - but you can bet what’s left of your pension that not a single policeman stationed around Parliament Square had to buy his own shiny combat boots.
Worth every penny, no doubt.
(Link via Tim)
Posted on May 9th, 2006 at 10:28 am
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[...] … or simply the sheer expense that the Government has gone to remove a single protestor from the precincts of Parliament Square. [...]
Er, I think some of the rozzers do buy their own boots. As with the military often it’s a comfort thing…not always, but often.
Anyway, that Haw chap, he’s awfully untidy and it’s not like he’s been colour coordinated or accesorized or anything. If only he’d thought about it, or made more of an effort he could have made a much more stylish protest.
You got a link to a “Copper buys boots” story?
At the risk of making it sound like an unsubstantiated load of old rot, no I don’t have a link, sorry.
It was something I was told by a copper during the ‘Squaddies buy boots’ stories at the beginning of the Great War of Liberation. Procurement being what it is, lowest bidder wins and frequently this isn’t a great recipe for comfort.
Look at it this way, to substantiate the story it’s a great opportunity to engage coppers in Brighton about how big (and perhaps shiny, if you’re feeling nice) their shoes are.
I’ll send you a cake if you get banged up.