January 23, 2008
Always being a law-abiding citizen Guru felt a mote of sympathy for our boys in blue as their request to have their pay rise backdated was roundly ignored by the home secretary.
Quite rightly casting aside any notions of a low-key protest and accidentally on purpose not attending when Jacqui Smith requires police assistance down at the peckham kebab shop, police officers are today marching past the Home Office to vent their spleen, as it were.
However, while they could have expected some good-bantered jeering and potentially even cheering from the general public and the police policing the event, they now face close scrutiny in the trouser department.
On hearing that the Police Federation had issued guidelines advising officers to make sure they go to the toilet before marching, Guru has heard that a squad of ne’er-do-wells who will be shadowing the protest with running water kits, fashioned from old chemistry sets.
The paparazzi will no doubt get big money for photographing any leakages that occur. Then the newspapers will be able to run stories saying the police officers had been taking the p*** all along.
