Narrow Bores

Since Her Majesty's Government is far too concerned with its fiscal responsibilities towards those efficient G4S people to think of handing the police sufficient money to do their job, the dead-eyed warden of HM Prison UK has evidently been flailing about in search of an appropriately empty gesture of appeasement. She has settled on granting a police request to ban .50-calibre rifles, which haven't been seen in criminal hands since the IRA disarmed. Given the eagerness of certain parties to dump the Good Friday agreements and re-ignite the rah-rah that was the Troubles, a ban might seem a reasonable idea if it happened that terrorists generally obtain their weapons from license-holding sports shooters, rather than from the kind of people who flood Middle Eastern countries with guns and motivation in the name of legitimate business interests. Fortunately for the great and law-abiding British nation, such considerations are irrelevant to the true believers in the magical wog-smashing bullet that is Brexit, who have decided to vote against the police as a rebuke to the dead-eyed warden for lack of ideological purity.