Police lose their High Court challenge over pay

Pouting Perry

Yes, but rather than just watching the space Peter, I’ll watch what happens to the smile on the now-smiling face!

Austin Barry

Older readers will notice Ms Smith's uncanny resemblance to Billy Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove, as essayed by Gerald Campion in the mid-fifties BBC series. Like Bunter she will no doubt have her well-upholstered backside regularly kicked by those proletarian-prefects, the police. "Yarooh!! I say chaps!!. Beast!!"

Dee Ranged

Peter

Your brief statement is contradictory.

How can it be a good result for the Government if they are to face new problems from a more militant police service?

TrevorH

No Austin, the mystery to me is why anyone can take seriously someone who looks like Oliver hardy.

I hope the lady put in charge of 'photo gaffs' does not put her and Andy Burnham together.

Austin Barry

TrevorH. Spot on. They could sing "On the Trail of the Loathsome Prime".

TrevorH

Ho ho - I actually laughed at that one, Good oh, Mr Austin :-)

Verity

Austin Barry, very good! She does look like Billy Bunter, although she doesn't have the dress sense...

Oliver Hardy also v good. And re "Trail of the Loathesome Prime" ... endorse TrevorH's 'Ho ho.'

My suggestion is she looks as though she had been moulded out of plasticine by the creator of Wallace and Grommit.

Frank Pulley

For once I cannot bring myself to joke about another fundamental blow to the morale of the British police; though already damaged almost beyond recognition, it is still our only chance against anarchy and for public tranquility. That grinning, fat-faced, self-satisfied, butchy moron depicted in the above post will go down in the annals of infamy as the worst Home Secretary ever - and bear in mind that Henwy Bwooke and David Blunkett were two of the previous incumbents. And - come to think of it - Reggie Maudlin, for Chrissakes! Yes, even worse than him and he should have been nicked during the the Gozo scandal.