F**k Off to all my readers!

That isn’t very nice is it? According to Mr Justice Bean in the Court of Appeal, it’s fine and shouldn’t cause any distress or alarm because youngsters swear all the time.

On the face of it, this story seems to be of little consequence. Just another nail in the coffin. I never regarded the swearing itself as a crime, it is however, evidence of disorderly and aggressive conduct.

This will soon arrive in the classroom, the local housing office, the benefits office, local swimming pool, the library ( if the Tories have left any in your area) and all areas of public life. The you will ring us and tell us that youths are telling you to fuck off, right in your face, and asking us what we are going to do about it. At that point, we will tell you that there is nothing we can do, you will blame us and the courts will once again escape accountability.

Then someone will ask you if you have confidence in the police, you will say no and we will spend loads of your money on glossy leaflets telling you how good we are and training courses, and yes folks, this is true, to teach police officers to be polite! Meanwhile, the local criminal underclass, no doubt fuelled by illegal drugs and legal alcohol, will float about abusing everyone with impunity.

Why should swearing constantly at police officers be any different to burglary, car crime, wife-beating and drug supply? After all, we see people walk away from the local courts every day for those offences, and we are used to the public and politicians blaming us for that too.

We will continue to get stabbed, shot at, run over and generally rioted at with no proper equipment, and again, you will all complain that you have no confidence in the police.

Here’s a thing. We are running out of confidence in society.

We used to accept all this nonsense for the odd occasion where we actually managed to do some good and for a good contributory pension scheme and a decent wage. Now we are told we can’t have those either, with all the money spent (on foreign wars no one believes in) and foreign aid budgets (no one benefits from).

I’ll leave you with this; how would you feel if next time you asked me something on the street and I looked you straight in the eye, curled back my lip and told you to fuck off? And then imagine being told later by a Judge that you should be used to it because policemen swear a lot. It’s bloody nonsense and we all know it.

Gadget Note: Inspector Gadget and Response Team F are currently on nights, hence the grumpy post.

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