Dial 999 – someone’s stolen our police force!

WHAT better symbol of modern Britain could there be than the news that closed police stations are now ending up as marijuana farms?

For decades, Left-wing governments of both parties have preferred not to protect the people of this country from crime. They began dismantling proper police foot patrolling – which would still work if we had it now – in the 1960s.

They never announced the change, or put it in a manifesto, or debated it in Parliament. They carried on pretending they cared about us. But in fact they’d adopted the ultra-Leftist belief that crime is not caused by human wickedness, but is a disease caused by social conditions. So anything that still upheld the old ideas of deterrence and punishment had to go.

Actual drug taking, the root of so much modern crime, was all but encouraged by soppy indulgence, with senior police officers leading calls for users to be spared the penalties set out in law.

In a way it is worse than that. Having given up enforcing laws we like, the police increasingly prefer to boss us about, telling us what we should think, and (while unbothered by burglars or muggers) plainly having huge fun self-righteously handcuffing and fining law-abiding men and women for supposed offences against the Covid decrees.

I shudder to think how this will affect future relations between police and public, but we barely see them anyway.

This closure of police stations is nothing new. The other day I looked up an article I wrote almost 20 years ago, in April 2001. I noted then: ‘In the past ten years, England and Wales have lost 630 police stations.’ You could write about it as much as you liked, and many have, but it alters nothing. They keep on closing them.

The police are not ours any more. They are a state militia who don’t need us or much like us, and they really don’t want to hear from us. So why should they be easy to find? The only way to make sure they come out is to defend your own home.

If we ever do get a proper government in this country again, it could do worse than dissolve the police and start all over again.