Not Enough Bobbies on the Meat

It is a credit to the Conservative Party's now vestigial instinct for realism that they dropped Security and Stability from their aspirations at last year's rah-and-blah; but they have been a little reticent about possible recipients of the leftover Opportunity. Now the head of counter-terrorism policing at the Metropolitan Police is worried about the effects of British independence from the Euro-wogs on intelligence and data-sharing, despite Tumbledown Tessie's assurances that everything will be fine unless the enemy refuses to co-operate. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu is also concerned that the country's stability and security might somehow be negatively affected by right-wing rhetoric less moderate and reasonable than that of Tumbledown Tessie or the Rothermere Daily Stürmer, and he is apparently experiencing some difficulty in finding officers with sufficient intestinal patriotism to go intimately undercover with the gammon in the name of Queen and country. Such a defeatist outlook is, of course, entirely unworthy of the greatest police force in the world; and it is to be hoped that a charitable view will be taken when the Home Office decides to detain the Assistant Commissioner until he can justify his residence in Britain while in possession of a complexion that is at best semi-Windrush.