Keith, that doesn't address Den's point that many of the thugs from the B Specials were subsequently re-employed in the UDR. I would add however that the UDR, for all its faults, was not remotely comparable with the B Specials.

Teribus, I was quibbling about one very specific phrase, and you've not dealt with it. Within that phrase you used three words ("even bother wearing") where one ("wear") would have done the job you now say you were trying to do. The three words were spawned by your ill-contained hatred, and must have been intended to suggest that the maskless ones were behaving with contempt or disdain in not wearing masks. But in the event you merely sounded incoherent, which is what happens when you let hatred drive your behaviour.