These four stuttering incompetents might have just been one small aspect of the catastrophic rot now afflicting every level of the British state – a bit like interviewing four individual cancer cells – but it was telling nonetheless.
When they were asked why it was that it was that the committee had only learned about the threat of armed vigilante violence by local ‘community groups’ (presumably the Brownies, members of the United Reform Church, militant Bowls clubs?) through a newspaper report, the Chief Constable claimed it was because nobody had worded a question to them about the topic specifically enough. ‘Totally outrageous’ spat one committee member over him. She was right.
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