A Public Service Thug.

A thug who happened to be in the employ of the Police Service has just been jailed for six months, presumably for assault. This was clearly shown on TV footage available to the Police within hours of the offence taking place.
Can anyone explain to me why he was not sacked at the earliest possible opportunity.
Whatever the provocation, if indeed there was any, the facts speak for themselves…..he should have been kicked off the payroll within days.
Even now the Police will not commit to saying that he will be sacked.
Why? Do they not realise that this is just the sort of prevarication that destroys people’s trust of the Police.

A Sunday Diversion.

The Inquiry………..Why don’t they ask me?

I could tell them, if only they‘d listen…………… I was there for pity’s sake!
What do they know, or really want to know, if truth be told.
Sitting there in judgement ……….. three bewigged and snuff stained buffoons in furbelowed finery and silk undergarments ………….. most likely milady’s!
Land-lubbers to a man!
Had they been there that day, midst the crashing sails and masts, the shattered booms and swinging pulley blocks, fit to crack open a man’s skull quicker than a boarding axe, they’d have been cringing in the gunwhale with crotches wetter than the sea herself.
Courts of Inquiry ……..Pah!
What is there to inquire into? We are all slaves to the sea!

When the sea, stirred by tide and current and lashed by tempest, takes it upon itself to rip the sails from boom and mast, reducing