Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mrs May?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5223661/Bizarre-plan-launched-Dads-Army-Border-Force.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/30/23/47A6228300000578-5223661-The_Border_Force_volunteers_will_be_tried_out_along_the_East_Coa-a-3_1514677236312.jpg

[emmie]

don't tell em Pike, lol

[ToraToraTora]

gawd help us, more hobby bobbies!

[Togo]

Haha we will fight them on the beaches.......with platitudes and benefit claim forms.

[ToraToraTora]

this sort of thing is a charter for every pretender to a uniform that craves power but never made the grade to be legit. NO!

[TWR]

Is this the UK by any chance?

[Togo]

I can see it now....hundreds of "volunteers..... all named Ali, Bashkum, Dumitru, Tariq, Gromit. :))

[mikey4444]

If this is true, then it sounds very much like the Tories are trying to save money again, in the same way that they "lost" 20,000 police officers since 2010.

And we all know what a great success that was don't we !

[Khandro]

Great idea, why scoff? and why use the nomenclature, Dad's Army', is it the Daily Mails's attempt at humour?

Retired ex-army personnel are used (often armed) in other parts of the world to guard banks and public buildings with good effect.

[ToraToraTora]

It's ok mikey because Dianne Abbot knows were we can get some for £1.80.

[Baldric]

How predictable, Mikey dragging the Dead Horse out of his freezer and subjecting it to yet another public flogging ;o)

[jno]

your time has come, aog! Report for duty with your pitchfork!

[anotheoldgit]

Lol, "they don't like it up em".

[Tilly2]

'We're all doooomed!'

[Gromit]

Proof, if it was needed, that this failing Government do not take national security seriously.

Borders should be properly staffed 24/7 by properly trained men and women.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "Borders should be properly staffed 24/7 by properly trained men and women. " - you've changed your tune gromit!

[douglas9401]

More back of a fag packet garbage from the leaders of the sixth biggest economy in the world.

Take a few million a week from their mates who skim the national lottery every week to fund proper officers.
It's not showing folk to their seats at the Commonwealth games y'know.

[Gromit]

No I haven’t. That has always been my opinion.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1130095.html

The only exception is the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland which is too porous without spending vast amounts of moneyto shore it up. So we make NI a special case and let the Irish sea be the mainland’s guard.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT could be Private Godfrey...

[mikey4444]

My sister Dolly always says .....

[emmie]

does seem rather a bizarre idea,