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mark occomore
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 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:13 pm Post subject: Water Cannon |
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Metropolitan Police have been given permission to buy water cannon.
| Quote: | The inference from that report is that permission will be given
The mayor's office said: "By purchasing them now we are able to save over £2.3m compared to buying new devices".
The water cannon will not be deployed until the home secretary authorises their use in England and Wales.
In a statement the mayor's office said purchasing the cannon now for just over £218,000, before Theresa May approves them, meant they could be bought at a "considerably reduced rate".
A Home Office spokesman said: "We are keen to ensure that the police have the tools and powers they need to maintain order on our streets." |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27781673
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Will they be used or just be sitting around rusting away?
It's like a Crane company buying a multi million pound crane and not getting used as there is no work coming in. |
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Colin
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Water Cannon |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | It's like a Crane company buying a multi million pound crane and not getting used as there is no work coming in. |
The difference is that you could blame the person in charge of marketing. I guess that as far a water cannon is concerned you just have to make sure there's a plentiful supply of rioters. That way, the price can be justified. |
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ruddlescat
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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If things continue as they are at present in this country I'm sure there will be a more than sufficient supply of rioters
Perhaps we need a popular revolution rather like what has recently happened in Eastern Europe in order to recover our traditional British values which have been hijacked over several years by the liberal dogooders 
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Colin
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| ruddlescat wrote: | | Perhaps we need a popular revolution rather like what has recently happened in Eastern Europe in order to recover our traditional British values which have been hijacked over several years by the liberal dogooders |
I'm not sure what "traditional British values" are - or if they ever really existed! |
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unclebuck
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Nice to get them in time for Summer. |
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littlepieces
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I need a new shower...perhaps this will do
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Angela W
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Boris the buffoon was on the radio yesterday saying that he would stand in front of one to try it out. Perhaps if the pressure of the water knocks him over it might do him some good.
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unclebuck
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Presumably, if you can stand in front of one, then there's not much point in having it? |
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Colin
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| Standing in front of one won't make Boris any wetter than he already is! |
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Angela W
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Colin wrote: | | Standing in front of one won't make Boris any wetter than he already is! |
No but if he gets knocked off his feet, it might knock some sense into his stupid head. 
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