This Editorial at a Glance:

• Nolan – The Arbitrary and Oppressive Abuse of Power;

• The role of Nolan servants-the Lancashire Chief Constable-and the Police & Crime Commissioner.

Dear Reader,

By now you will be aware that Mr.Nolan, the newly appointed Clerk to the CFA, a solicitor specialising in employment law no less, who mysteriously managed to avoid compliance with the Equality Act 2010 when it materially suited him when he was ‘appointed’ by his ‘Grip’ cronies at the CFA.

Mr.Nolan still refuses to answer the 10 Questions the Bugler has publicly posed to him on this, slither in under the back door appointment, and in reacting to this public spotlight, which requires transparency in his public appointment, he decided to take the public pressure off himself by engaging in dirty work at the XRoads undoubtedly using a wrinkle he had picked up from his chum the Chief Constable and of course he is perfectly entitled to do that.

However, there are always consequences.

Mr. Nolan seems be under the misapprehension that this Pension issue is some little tiresome local difficulty rather than a bare knuckle pension brawl to the finish with all the associated unpleasantness that this inevitably brings.

A tone it must be said that was set and has been greatly exacerbated by the criminally deceitful practices of Warren and his coterie of LFRS/LCC associates over the last 8 years as the forcibly released PRFs are starting to confirm.

Warren has done the LFRS no favours with his unbridled misconduct in public office which will inevitably lead to his and others downfall.

Nolan would have been wise not to ape Warren's antics or to go there but it seems that he has. Such thoughtless action has consequences as Hamilton and Gardiner can vouch for…

Whilst all is fair in love and war even in war there are certain lines which conventions  dictate ought not to be crossed. Such practices, if engaged in, usually come with a harsh lesson and an expensive price tag.

One of the first, of many lessons, Nolan needs to learn when entering the ‘big boys’ school yard is never to whine or whinge when the going gets rough.

Firefighters could teach him a lot about this self-discipline. By all means hand it out but first of all learn to take it.

It seems Nolan does not yet know the ‘yard’ rules.

This yard is not a ‘civilised’ place and whilst so called ‘civilities’ are used in correspondence Nolan should suffer from no illusions what disabled FSVs are about where their pensions are concerned.

They intend to win against all the odds, a common feature of their professional work, and indeed they are winning right now as we shall report this week; are continuing to

win; and will win completely in the end when Justice, Integrity, and Fair Play will once more reign supreme at the LFRS.

One should always consider the reactions when one chooses to break the ‘yard rules’ and the one ‘rule’ which is sacrosanct is never make war on widows, children, families, or friends if that can be avoided, because it usually come with a very high personal price in the long term.

One wonders where Nolan was when they handed out the ‘rules’?

In his crass pathos he whines and whinges that he has suffered ‘distress’ -whatever that might mean- suffering it seems from the truth which the Bugler simply collated from online published sources and then re-published on its pages.

Nolan was very unwise to break this ‘yard rule’ because he will now personally have to bear the legal consequences a defence of which it will be unlikely that the CFA will fund.

Sometimes, in maturity, it is better just to leave barking dogs to bark…Winterbottom did from time to time, but then he was an accomplished thief of democracy…

The good news of course is that Nolan through his ‘Grip’ contacts has managed to engage the Chief Constable in this pension dispute in pursuit of his own personal and selfish ‘self-protection’ though the Bugler doubts that this was either the Chief Constable’s or Nolan’s  intention, but he is now engaged.

In the past the CC and the Lancashire Police & Crime Commissioner  have both shown a marked enthusiasm for obstructing the Bugler in its work of bringing the criminality at the LFRS to the Public’s scrutiny.

Both have repeatedly demonstrated a marked lack of enthusiasm for doing anything about these reported serious crimes placed before them both in the form of Criminal Information and which at the moment rest before the Serious Fraud Office in a formal Complaint.

In the foreseeable future the Bugler will place a formalised list of criminal activities engaged in at the LFRS/LCC and will once again invite the CC and the PCC to do their public duty and apply their collectives resources in the legitimate pursuit of criminals and criminality reported to them on behalf of the Public of Lancashire.

In the interim Nolan; the CC; and the PC; will all be busy extracting themselves from the  unenviable position Nolan has placed them in where it is clear that the CC has, without equivocation, chosen to misuse his resources by initiating and and authorising a clear case of the arbitrary and oppressive abuse of power for which awards of exemplary damages were designed, and of which a clearer example would be hard to find…