“Royal” Visitations
Posted: Wed 22 March, 2006 Filed under: Sweary, Thoughts 2 Comments »Yesterday, Wokingham had a visit from the Countess of Wessex, or “Sophie thingy” as she’s known. One of the more useless royals, along with her husband.
Anyway, in order to “protect” her from the “crowds” (To whit, no-one. Not a fucking one. No-one cared, or was likely to. And it was only the local Lions she was visiting anyway – hey, talk about high-powered. *cough*) the entourage consisted of :
- One Chauffer-driven Audi A6
- Two Close-Protection Bunch Range Rovers with two plods in each
- Five plods on motorbikes and
- another six all propping up the walls of the town hall
All for absolutely sod-all. SIXTEEN bloody people to protect one minor minor royal on a day-trip to a meeting with a bunch of local Lions Club members. I believe this could be filed under “Overkill”.
How good to see my council tax money going to such good use. *cough*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4119194.stm ask them for a rebate, u’ll get 67p back.
Although it does say it excludes security, whether police come under security or some other catagory one does not know, I’ve certainly never felt secure with MR PC Plod around.