Condoling with the Plebs

A political talent which manages to alienate the armed forces, the civil service, the public and the police, simultaneously and within the space of half a single parliament, can only be described as a very special sort of political talent indeed. Nevertheless, Britain's Head Boy has been bustled off to the North, where he intimated that killing police officers, even plebeian police officers, was a Very Bad Thing, and where he burbled sweet nothings about allowing the Government to get in the way of certain types of organised crime. Mercifully, he appears to have resisted any temptation to proclaim that Little Ivan was a policewoman too. We progress, do we not? In the wake of Andrew "The Patrician" Mitchell's recent indiscretion, perhaps a few small alarm lights are starting to flash even within those Stygian depths of dimness which inhabit the average Bullingdon cranium.