The Party is Over

This summer is turning out to be a wet one.
Arrived at the allotment this morning to see a heron flying slowly along the course of the Great Dribble, just above the willow trees.
That was about all I saw, as the rain then hammered down.
So Nosher and I spent the morning hunkered down in his shed, discussing the news of the day.
'The media is full of reports that hospitals and other Government agencies are ordering stab-vests for their front line staff' Nosher announced 'something's finally got them to acknowledge that we now live in a horrifically violent society where even those who seek to do nothing but good are at risk from violent scumbags.'
'It exposes the lies the Government tells us' I responded 'they claim that knife crime has not increased for years. Their statistics are fiddled of course. The reality is that significant areas of our cities are dominated by armed criminal gangs that the Police can do very little about, either because of shortage of numbers or the stifling rules of political correctness and health and safety.'
'I don't think there is the political will to do anything effective about this problem' Nosher said 'the idiots who think they're in charge still claim to believe that being nice to criminals reforms them, whereas the only effective thing to do is to lock them up in large numbers for as long as decently possible. Until the Government accepts that and bites the bullet about criminal justice, things will carry on getting worse.'
'Would you bet any money on anything effective being done in time to prevent a social catastrophe?' I asked.
'Not a penny' Nosher replied.
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