Prophetic words

[Gromit]

// Police Superintendents' Association president Ch Supt Derek Barnett will outline this call at the body's annual conference in Cheshire on Wednesday.

He will say a "strong and confident" police force will be needed in the face of government austerity measures.

The government said the police would not be exempt from spending cuts.

Home Secretary Theresa May will be in the audience at the conference.

Mr Barnett is set to say: "In an environment of cuts across the wider public sector, we face a period where disaffection, social and industrial tensions may well rise.

"We will require a strong, confident, properly trained and equipped police service, one in which morale is high and one that believes it is valued by the government and public."

In his speech, Mr Barnett is expected to talk about the inevitability of widespread disorder on the streets but he insists the comments do not refer to the impact of spending cuts. //

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11291616

Alas, he was ignored.

[DrFilth]

the tories are more intrested in libya and giving money to other countries

[daisya]

It certainly seems that way D F.

[rov1100]

Maybe instead of getting on our high horse we could learn something from Syria.

[emmie]

No we don't want to be like Syria, this is not the Middle East, or Iraq, Afghanistan. Civil unrest was predicted by any number of people not least Union leaders who were bleating on about the cuts, and that people wouldn't stand for it, blah blah blah, whilst they sit in their luxury offices, looking on no doubt with glee at what has unfolded. It's not the cuts, how many more times, as already been pointed out much of it hasnt happened yet, and the lowlifes on the streets are thugs no more no less.