Pansy Plod

Despite a decade of healthy reforms and radical liberalisation of wog control, it appears that Britain's law enforcement industry is as steeped in metropolitan élitism as ever. Trendy snowflakes and Stalinist hippies in three-quarters of police forces maintain that their current powers are adequate when it comes to removing Gypsies and travellers, who are as near to being wogs as makes no difference. Eighty-four per cent did not support criminalising unauthorised encampments, and sixty-five per cent were extreme enough to claim that the whole problem would go away if there were more sites. This of course is the same dangerous logic that leads to belief in housing over homeless spikes and, in extreme cases, to the idea that immigrants can be taxpayers. The Minister for Cockroaches will no doubt be deeply disappointed that police forces across the country have conspired to soften the pea in her electoral dog-whistle. Should the former party of law and order be returned to government, there will presumably be a need for tough decisions, both on the extent to which privatisation is the answer and on who is sufficiently British to merit a share in the profits.