For many years I have studied the skies over Richmond hoping to catch a sighting of an Albatross

It is unlikely that I will ever see an Albatross over Richmond

The same be said of the cops

A couple of weeks ago I witnessed something daft on a busy road leading out of a town of some thirty thousand people in Sussex

Two rather nice looking horses were being ridden by a couple of blonde bimbos with coloured bibs

I am not sure if they were breaking the law as in the countryside this is a common sight

Horses and cars obviously do not mix and it can be seen as an accident just waiting to happen

I see the people who ride horses on dangerous roads rather like the Lycra Fascists who insist on riding on pavements

As far as I am aware cycling on pavements is against the law

Yet for some reason riding a horse on a road is not against the law which is crazy

I know that the cops were contacted as there was a potential for an accident

Did they show up

No

The Lesser Spotted Cop is becoming a rare creature

Possibly they were solving a dreadful hate crime somewhere or something just as important

Who knows

I actually popped into the local cop shop to report what I had seen as it concerned me

But it was longer there and was bring turned into some rather nice flats

A notice told me that I should contact 666 or something but only during opening hours (are crimes only committed during these daylight hours)

This said I recently cut through the local Pride Fair as The Green is a short cut and to my great surprise saw at least a dozen cops near their brightly coloured wagon

These were the most cops I had seen in one place since the last Chelsea v Arsenal game I attended

Were all these stories about the cops being politicised and run by odd looking women with funny haircuts a mere scare story highlighted by the naughty boys or the far right

Two Tier policing what the **** is that

Although my pen has been light this is one of the reasons that the cops are having such a bad time of things at present

I actually like the cops as most decent people do

I have in recent years I have met a few people who once served in the police force and when I could asked them why they had resigned

Their answers were very similar

Lions led by Donkeys

I despair as until common sense is used it is only going to get worse

Especially with the current government in place



Joe the Albatross