GOLLIES arrested, well it makes a change from plastic tunnels! But what a state we are in as a nation.

Before calling the police heavy-handed, let us remember that the great British public elected a Socialist government because they delight in a nanny state of human rights and all the rest.

The result is crime and violence, together with burglary, at an unprecedented level, the politicians like to use the euphemistic phrase 'unacceptable', it sounds authoritative. The consequence is a sense of fear among those who are vulnerable because of age and infirmity.

Probably the police are too young to know that when many of us were helping to free Europe from the tyranny of Nazi Germany, the forces were issued with bank notes issued by AMGOT (Allied Military Government). On the reverse side were printed the four freedoms, freedom from want, and the second fear! The conclusion is obvious, politicians who have abdicated from true government have passed so many petty laws the police are besieged with such diversity they are in danger of losing respect from all sections of the community. The remedy lies in their own hands.

Let chiefs of police make it clear to the Home Office that their resources are limited, frivolous matters such as gollies are not within their jurisdiction. If they fail to do this then we are living within a police state, brought about by a corrupt Socialist government.

HAROLD R POOLEY, Church Street, Ledbury.