Bulldog Bash

As an "organised crime group" the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a failure. It has been in the UK for over 30 years, has hundreds of members in locations all around the country and has not yet really done anything notable yet.

Even a ratio of offences per member is probably substantially less than my local youth club.

I am, of course, ignoring the crimes of being universally butt-ugly and having questionable tastes in motorcycle technology.

However, as an escapist motorcycle club revelling in myths and legend from half a century ago on the other side of the Atlantic, it is a great success.

The problem is the police misunderstood the Motorcycle Clubs, misjudged things and made a big mistake they will not face up to.

They are now pissed off. The Bulldog Bash is well-established community event run by a club who wont give them a look-in. Despite their blatant attempts to twist the facts to attempt to bring fear of “harm” to the people of Warwickshire the establishment there repeatedly supports this successful, enjoyable and safe event thus denting the police ego.

But having hundreds of police checking and searching all the good people who go to this event is wasting money (£3 million in the last 18 months), creating barriers between the community and the police and now beginning to undermine police reputation for credibility and objectivity.

It is time the policing of the event was put back onto the basis that the facts of the case justify.

The police keep escalating matters every time they get knocked back or are shown to be wrong yet again. Rather than ending it through some crisis why not let us do it the sensible way?

Sign the Downing Street petition for sensible policing of the event: -http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/asscheifholland/

Or maybe I’m wrong, unlike the last 22 years, maybe next summer this band of desperados will ride out of the desert on their iron stallions, rape our daughters and eat our pet gerbils.

But I doubt it.

Rolo T