At the Liberal Conspiracy, Laurie Penny reports on the police’s telepathic powers in action as she comes across one of Boris mobile metal detector units:
‘But hang on. The lights are flashing red for every other person. Why aren’t you stopping all those people?’
‘Well…’ indulgent little police-officer smile turns into get-rid-of-this-member-of-the-public grin ‘look, we just use our judgement – say, if someone like your good self set off the buzzers, well,’ looks me up and down ‘you’re clearly not the sort of person to be carrying a knife, are you?’
‘So what sort of people would you stop and search, then?’
‘Well, you watch the news.’
It seems constable Savage is alive and well.