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Okay, we are in agreement so far. Let's take it to the next level shall we? I'm in a dangerous mood today.

I notice that the Police Precept gives Lancashire Police £277 million this year, roughly £97 of the Council Tax bill for a band A property. Apparently the government is asking them to cut £50 million from the precept over the next four years. That, to my reckoning, is £12.5 million per year - from £277 million hardly suggests the 'frightening' scenario that the Chief Constable is fretting over. It is not what one might call 'wholesale butchery' for example nor indeed would it seem to invite comparisons with the 'night of the long knives' or 'death by a thousand cuts'. Does this not rather suggest that all Mr Finnigan is doing to meet the cuts is to make PCSO's redundant, otherwise it is business as usual - Police helicopter circling endlessly looking for lost cats, traffic cops whiling away their shifts parked up in laybys, more flash cars with extra uber-cool flashing lights and seriously radical sirens that not only go 'whoo-whoo' but 'beep-beep' too! and, of course, any excuse to get out the dressing-up box?