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An Address on Statue Erection in the UK by Chief Police Officer Raymond Ironside for CricketDick County, North Dorsetshire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 15 June 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keyfacts<\/strong>
Venue:<\/em> The Village Hall
In attendance:<\/em> 7 people (The Chief of Police, His Auntie (from Virginia) and something else that could not fully decide on which box to tick and was therefore counted as 5 Others)
Tickets: <\/em>Parking ones \u00a385; O.A.P.s double the price for living so long and drawing their pensions; Students ~ we\u2019ll pay you to stay away
Refreshments:<\/em> Imperialistic tea and biscuits free at twice the price in the Indian Pavilion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Raymond Ironside\u2019s address:<\/strong>
Good afternoon, it is so nice to see such an excellent turnout for this event (looking out of the window at an Antifart-induced riot that is going on outside over monocultural yoghurts being sold at the village fete).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First an apology (we\u2019re good at that). Many of you have written to us at the police station asking where the police station is and why it isn\u2019t where the police station should be? We apologise for never replying ever, and twice never on Sundays, as the postman, sorry postother, hasn\u2019t a clue either ~ that is about who or what he is and where the police station has been relocated to. Some people believe that is in Mr Sado Khan\u2019s Hall of Smoke and Mirrors, others that it was last seen disguised as a mobile yam and breadfruit shop. We advise people who don\u2019t know their arse from their elbow to do what we always do whenever we want to find it: ask a policeman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking into account the current trend for not being able to spell and the younger generation\u2019s flatulent use of the word \u2018like\u2019 and \u2018LoL\u2019, even if we had received your letters, we would have had to employ an interpreter, and as the recorded message tells you on all those helplines you love to ring, \u2018our interpreters are all busy helping other customers at present\u2019, most of whom have come to Dorsetshire in the middle of the night, when they are least likely to be seen, in small boats without a TV licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CricketDick Police are, however, on Facebook. That\u2019s our Facebook page. You can\u2019t miss it. It\u2019s the one with a mugshot avatar complete with number underneath. Please note that the face we are using is a fictitious one in order to comply with the Data Protection Act and the We Dare Not Arrest Anybody Who Looks Like That Anymore in Case of a Riot Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we know that there are an awful lot of you ~ and a lot of you who are awful ~ who are concerned about the increasing numbers of burglaries, muggings, knife crimes, terrorist activities  and murders in CrippleDick but never mind that, today we are here to talk about the dos and don\u2019ts (mostly the don\u2019ts) of statue erection. This is most important as transgressions of the erection laws carry stiff penalties, as I believe my colleagues, Detective Constable Ron Condom and Police Woman Cliterthroe, advised you last week during the talk they gave to the \u2018High-5 Size-55 Yoga Pants Club\u2019 on Camel Toes Matter. Get this wrong and it could, as the missionaries used to say, land you right in the soup. Indeed, contravention of the I Should Not Be Proud of My National History Act, carries a penalty of 5000 Obamian Dollars, two years in parts of London where I really don’t want to be, or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why I say if you do intend to raise a statue in\nyour back garden, on your patio,  in your\nfront room or on the empty plinths in Parliament Square ~ and every other\nmunicipal centre in England ~ please remember that there are a few legal points\nthat you need to take into account before your erection takes place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, I am reminded of the case Viagra vs Cialis, which was thrown out of court and hit someone on the head who had so many rights they didn’t know what to do with them. He, she, or whatever it was, was compensated to the tune of their own national anthem with a package consisting of two kilos of hashish, the winning numbers of the EU lottery, housed for free at Buckingham Palace and was offered an unlikely position, which IT\u2019s husband complained about, on the Statue Shatterers Board of Directors. It was also offered an OBE but turned it down on the basis that it was racist, imperialist and you couldn\u2019t snort or smoke it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know I am here to talk about statues, but our job, the\njob of the Defunded police (now consisting of one man and his bicycle and a\nhuge handbook of what he can\u2019t say, do or arrest), is first and foremost to\nensure equality and fairness is exercised in all thongs pertaining to\ninclusivity. We will only arrest if there is absolutely no other way or whilst\nwe are looking the other way as instructed in the statuet book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a checklist of things you should ask yourself\nbefore you put up your statue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Is your statue of a pale complexion?
2. Is your statue a pre-eminent historical figure who has made an inestimable contribution to the nations\u2019 stability and advancement, without which the current generation would lack the entitlement to which they presume they have a God-given right?
3. Has your statue ever owned a pair of dark coloured underpants with a white band of elastic around the top?
4. Did your statue read Noddy<\/em> when he was a little statue?
5. Has your statue ever, with or without your knowledge, been labelled by the liberal media as Far or Extreme Right because he or she is not a self-culture loather who objects to national identity theft?
6. Has your statue ever been caught listening to the National Anthem?
7. Did anyone hear your statue say \u2018Good Riddance\u2019 when Meghan Markle shipped out?
8. Is your statue more inclined to cheer Churchill than another statue in the near vicinity?
9. Does your statue confuse the word \u2018rap\u2019 with \u2018stereotypifying crap\u2019?
10. Was your statue a friend of Jimmy Savile\u2019s statue, or anybody else\u2019s statue who worked for the BBC?
11. Has your statue ever owned the Vera Lynn Collection?
12. Does your statue\u2019s family have centuries-old British lineage or were they given a piece of paper with citizenship written on it, or did they not come from the East but knew Ron Geest?
13. Is your statue balanced or does it have a large chip on its shoulder?
14. Does your statue play cards ~ regularly and deal from the bottom?
15. Is your statue an inanimate object that if pulled down will not make a ha’p’orth of difference to the person it represents as he died in 1835 and is too busy laughing in his grave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to these questions you should also give appropriate consideration to the decorations that surround your statue ~ Union Jacks, Sunday lunches, a pair of Morris dancer\u2019s socks,  the entire BBC collection of the Black & White Minstrel Show and a certain record about Christmas by a man whose surname is very similar to someone else\u2019s (unfortunately), should be avoided at all costs. For advice on street signs, please address your queries to Nickerless Sturfried at Scotty Parliament, or email: nomorereferendumsplease@straw.grasping.sc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And remember, if you intend to do anything with your statue that does not concern the local leftwing council planning department, please seek advice from your local leftwing council planning department. If in doubt, you should always hide your statue in your loft, under a heavy tarpaulin away from skylights, where it could be noticed by third-class passengers hiding in the wheel-wells of passing airliners and offend their sillybilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next week, your visiting lecturer will be (name withheld in accordance with The Name Witholding Act) who will be discussing her latest books, which she wrote in Yarlswood, Rewriting British History <\/em>and Blackmail: Apologising and Appeasing with your statues down<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Statue
The Time-Travelling Policeman says, “I love it here in 1910. We are all well-funded, you can stand in the middle of the road and be really embarrassed if you get hit by the once-weekly bus, the government and law-abiding public all support us, the Riot Act takes care of anything vaguely subversive and all our statues and national monuments are safe and happy within their ancestral home!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The UK Guide to Offensive Statues Handbook<\/a>
“If you don’t know where they are they’ll box them before you trash them!” ~ described by the B.B.C. as a ‘mainly peaceful demonstrator’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2020 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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