Police-The Final Insult

South Yorkshire Police have shown their utter contempt for the public by threatening to take bobbies off the beat and replace them with PCSOs. Let's be honest, these ideas are always approved at the top of government before 'being floated' and show what contempt the police and government hold the populace in. If it happens in South Yorkshire it will soon be happening elsewhere, that's how our masters work things.

The public have been demanding more bobbies on the beat for years and years. So now our masters want to withdraw beat bobbies completely. If that isn't showing contempt I don't know what is. As for PCSOs I wouldn't ask one for directions to a car park let alone trust one on the beat. What next, replace the riot police with PCSOs?

And I don't accept all this bull about spending cuts when £50,000 of lottery money is being wasted in Burnley on:

A PROJECT looking at the history of the LGBT movement in Burnley....

From the Lancashire Telegraph.

Things Have Only Got Better?

I will never forget that awful night, or early morning, when we finally knew we had a Labour government again. Look what a mess we are in now.

But while many of us will suffer financially from the economic mess inevitable when a bunch of statist authoritarian nutters are in charge, spare a thought for the real victims of 'New Labour Same Old Results'.

I have a housebound mother-in-law thanks to neglect in an NHS hospital. Millions more have suffered at the hands of the NHS despite millions and millions of pounds spent, largely on bureaucrats.

The verdict is due on the psycho who killed a Harry Potter actor today. Remember too all those other victims of knife crime and other violent crime. But don't blame the uniformed busybodies in uniform they call PCSOs, if they run the other way when they see a crime it's only because they are human and untrained, meaning useless!

But the worst result of New Labour has to be the continuing disaster that is known as 'childrens services'. Here is a BBC report on that particular area of our national disaster.

One of the very few things government should do is to protect the most vulnerable. A consequence of this government's desire for power and control is an overbearing state, so expanded under New Labour that it is now terminally obese. When the state bureaucracy grows so powerful control and accountability disappear and inertia takes hold. This is what we now have, the bureaucracy protects the bureaucrats not the vulnerable.

Ludicrous PCSOs

Below is a letter of mine printed in the Morecambe and Lancaster Citizen on 10 October. It was a response to a letter from the chairman of a local busybody group who actually thinks that PCSOs are a success! Not only that but he had been extremely rude about me, in a totally unnecessary way, which I can more than take but felt merited a suitable response.



We simply need more bobbies

HAVING lived and worked in various parts of the UK I must say that the Citizen letters page is one of the most stimulating and enjoyable I have seen. Some ideas proposed are wacky, some brilliant and some decidedly bizarre. Debate is often heated but usually within acceptable bounds. Then up steps Mr Lewthwaite, of Carnforth PACT (October 3), to indulge in gratuitous personal abuse, always handy when you have to defend the indefensible, in his case PCSOs.

'We should do away with PCSOs because they are a failed experiment. The public are being fooled'. That quote is from Paul Kelly, chairman of the Police Federation in Manchester. I think that his view has much more credibility than Mr Lewthwaite's.

What we really need are bobbies back on the streets, freed from the bureaucracy and politically correct red tape that has destroyed morale and takes them away, hour after hour, from doing what they wanted to do when they joined. The last thing we need is a highly visible PR exercise dreamed up by the Labour spin machine that is an obvious failure and fools few people.

I might be tempted to attend a Carnforth PACT' meeting one day. But then again I trust the police and would prefer them to be getting on with their jobs rather than wasting time in even more 'consultation meetings', so I probably won't.
Gregg Beaman, Carnforth.