It' all very well this 'get tough' shit with drug users. After all, it's not the government that has to do it. First in the frontline is "Five-0". How happy are they with the shit, a.k.a. Misuse of Drugs Act 1970, they've got to shovel?

Well we've had the Police Foundation Report on the drug laws (Tony and Jack just said "do one"). We know the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) told Jack that mandatory drug testing in police custody was a non-starter (Tony and Jack just said "do one"). That the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police wanted the government to stop carrying on about draw. But Tony and Jack knew he was just smooching up to Londoners in the early days of the job, so they didn't even bother saying "do one." After all, if you're the Home Secretary, you never know when you might need a copper in London. So they kept shtum and ignored him instead.

And now here's another Dibble that's been ignored, the Chief Constable of Cleveland. He and his Police Authority probably got a letter from Jack's gopher saying "do one." After all, where the fuck is Cleveland if you work in Whitehall? It's just another Northern shithole. And, as for its coppers, well for a geezer what runs the Met (the Home Secretary still has responsibility for the Met), they're "just a load of wallies, chasing brollies."

But what Cleveland police have done to piss off Tony and Jack is to put a document to their Police Authority in which the Chief Constable Barry ("Bazza") Shaw suggested:

"There is overwhelming evidence in this country to suggest that the prohibition-based policy in place in this country since 1971 has not been effective in controlling the availability or use of proscribed drugs. If there is indeed a'war on drugs', it is not being won."

Bazza, you're bang out of order! Are you out of your pointy blue helmet? The war on drugs must go on. Do you know how many peoples' jobs depend on this conflict continuing? Have you any idea how many people's parades you would piss on if we adopted a sane drugs policy? "Get back in your box Bazza." Tony and Jack aren't interested. There's no votes and no jobs in going "soft" on drugs. No, what the punters want are politicians with a lob on politicos with attitude and it's the job of "Five-0" to put that attitude into practice. Why the fuck else do you think Tony and Jack gave the Drug Tsar job to a dibble?

The big question though is how long will the police be happy to play "Dibble in the Middle" in New Labour's "war on drug users?" As Bazza says:

"If a sufficiently large'and apparently growing' part of the population chooses to ignore the law for whatever reason, then that law becomes unenforceable. A modern western democracy, based on policing by consent and the rule of law may find itself powerless to prevent illegal activity Ð in this case the importation and use of controlled drugs."

How dare you Bazza? How dare you? Haven't Tony and Jack always been good to you boys and girls in blue? Haven't they always looked after you? The war must continue!

"We will fight them in the pubs. We will fight them in the clubs. We will fight them in the playgrounds and in the streets. We will fight them in the privacy of their own homes. And we will never surrender" (or at least not until people threaten to vote for a party with a rational drugs policy and then watch how fast we change our minds).