More On The Butchers Bill

[retrocop]

Must be difficult juggling police resources to protecting the public when they are all tied up in central London at the moment. Which is the worthier cause I wonder.




https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/teenage-boy-stabbed-death-east-london-10897843/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly

[THELOONYCORBYN]

As to Central London, they should use the military to help drag them off the streets to keep the streets etc clear and accessible,and to the police stations where hopefully those arrested get prosecuted to the full and receive criminal records...criminal records might give them pause for thought, if theyre capable of it that is...

[retrocop]

I have recently wondered if the army still have all those Green Goddess fire appliances in store in Wiltshire that they used in Operation Burberry. I saw them in action a few times and they would make spectacular water cannon in the hands of the men/women who could handle them. Seriously strong pumps on them.

[jourdain2]

It is probably time that a rethink is needed as to keeping the streets clear. It is obviously impossible for the police to do everything. My neighbour is a policeman and gets drafted in all over the place at the expense of his usual patch. So - we need to bring in the military to keep the streets clear.... a fairly horrible concept but, I think, an inescapable conclusion. Arms should not be needed, just a presence of a wall of bodies keeping the streets clear.

I am, alas, not sure that Ex.Reb. wouldn't push things past that in their search for a 'martyr'. People don't play by the rules any more, more's the pity. In the first place, however, decide which roads must be kept clear and clear them...… and the best of luck. :)

[TonyV]

Think BJ sold them at a massive loss.

[gulliver1]

Send in the , The Home Guard Platoon from Answer Bank, these three forgotten heroes will soon sort them out.

[Jackdaw33]

Boris had to sell them because Treason May, then Home Secretary, wouldn't allow him to use them.

[retrocop]

Tony V
//Think BJ sold them at a massive loss. //
Those were the water cannon bought second hand from Germany.One was stationed in North London at Hendon Driving School. Th other at South London.
I am referring to the ex AFS Green Goddess fire engines manned by military personnel during operation Burberry. There were several hundred placed all over the UK.They could be used as water cannon easily.

[DTCwordfan]

The Green Goddess, who remembers her?
Diana Moran was her name.
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/20/590x/green-goddess-toppic-776143.jpg
To think she's now 80.

[retrocop]

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/list/499/green+goddess/

[Spicerack]

TonyV //Think BJ sold them at a massive loss.//

You think wrong. Sadiq Khan sold them. (for future reference}

[youngmafbog]

Nah, must be Boris or Brexit's fault surely.

Bring the army in - armed together with water canon and clear the streets once and for all.

Setup large temporary holding camps and keep the perpetrators incarcerated until the Magistrate can deal with them. Criminal records all round. e a right bummer for them when the US refuses their vacation visa to Disney with mummy and daddy !

[Mamyalynne]

//In March 2004, the British Government announced that it was conducting a test sale of forty of its remaining fleet of more than nine hundred vehicles, and that it was planning to dispose of the remainder. The sale of the fleet was completed, and most of the vehicles were sold to fire brigades in developing countries, mostly in Africa. Some were donated to museums, including the prototype which was placed in the Museum of RAF Firefighting. Others are in the National Emergency Services Museum, National Museum of Scotland, Kent Firefighting Museum, Leicester Fire Brigade Museum, Yorkshire Air Museum and Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre. Some were purchased by vehicle restoration trusts and some are privately owned.//