Memo to The Government: How Not To Create A Police State

Rather than running away from any danger of contact with über clown Robert Mugabe, Tartan McReich's Führer Braun would do well to realise that he cannot but profit from some lessons in banana republic building from the nemesis of development in Africa. As distasteful as it may be to the Thane of Kirkcudbright, the Laird of Zimbabwe understands that no aspiring dictator worth his salt should be silly enough to piss off, almost to the point of mutiny, his armed forces and his police forces, force what laws he will. When the mob storms Downing Street there will be little point in calling in the police or the army and no point at all in calling in an army of consultants.

Gordon The McGravy Train Engine should forget his Scotch inclinations, stop quibbling about the bill and pay those whose uniforms ensure that we can sleep at nights what is owed to them.