Used To Be The Case...

It used to be the case that if we were to be rendered helpless in the face of some alleged 'importance', it would be somebody on the level of Brezhnev who would create this state of affairs.

When he visited the USA and drove at 70 mph down the middle of the road, it was because he expected to be given a private, priviledged access to so-called 'public' roads.

It didn't happen in the US and he was persuaded to refrain from driving American cars.

But is was the norm in the USSR.
And for many years.

Today, returning from a hard day at work, and only fifty yards from home, I was stopped, as were we all.
This went on for fifteen minutes, with only the distant, blue flashing light of a Police Motorcycle to explain.
Then, suddenly, a prison bus with a massive escort sped by, and after a few moments more we were allowed to proceed.
In the prison bus?
An alleged cop killer.
So if you kill a cop in this country you are treated like a head of state in the Soviet Union?

Is this the New Royalty?

If it was up to me I'd hire a Leeds passenger bus.
The guy sitting behind the criminal(alleged) would have a loaded gun and if anybody tried to rescue him, BOOM!
It's not brain surgery.
My father once escorted a dangerous Italian from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum on the train.
All he did was put a bullet up the spout of his Lee-Enfield, and point it.

Needless to say there was no escape attempt.
.303 bullets seriously damaged anything they hit.