Comrade Brown repeatedly assures us the reason British Forces remain committed on the North West Frontier is that by doing so, it makes Blightly a safer place... & then you read something like this...

A north London council has apologised after a woman was refused the loan of a pair of scissors in a library because she "might stab a member of staff". Lorna Watts, 26, a self-employed dressmaker, was turned down at Holborn Library in central London ... Ms Watts, from Islington, north London, said: "I asked why I couldn't borrow a pair of scissors and she said, 'they are sharp, you might stab me”
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"I then asked to borrow a guillotine to cut up my leaflets but she refused again - because she said I could hit her over the head with it!"

Frankly why go to all of the time, effort, trouble & expense of getting bombed & shot at by a people who want to be left alone so that they can return to living in the Middle Ages to make once Great Britain safer when officious council employees seem to be quite capable of achieving the same thing. If I were a Tom sitting in Helmand province waiting to get blown up by an IED, upon reading this sort of thing I wouldn’t so much pack up & go home as just pack up & go somewhere else. Anywhere else.