Osbourne you plonker

[RizzoTheRat]

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/04/osbor...

That was never going to go down well was it

[smegmore]

[Tebbers]

The car belonged to his security contingent, which was reversing via a disabled bay while he went to get food. Non story.

Next.

[Mr Snap]

smegmore said:

Ossie would never do anything that daft.

[AnonSpoilSport]

'The Thick Of It' was fiction, wasn't it?

[0a]

OP you plonker... And more fool the millions of idiots that parrot "he parked in a disabled bay".

[funkyrobot]

Ah, the old Daily Mirror. Like a really angry lefty version of the Wail.

[dave stew]

Very very easy to make yourself look stupid. Especially in a 'Lefty Baiter' Landie!!

[Jasandjules]

Guam said:

This^^^, it will be standard practice for a security contingent to park a VIP vehicle as close to the entrance as possible, in case anything were to kick off I reckon, I would even bet if the Queen has to go to the loo at a service station, they would commandeer the disabled toilet to minimise inconvemience to the facility and it would be easier to lock down.

Yes but he's of no importance to anyone or anything.

[RizzoTheRat]

Tebbers said:

The car belonged to his security contingent, which was reversing via a disabled bay while he went to get food. Non story.

Except it is a news story, and I don't believe the old addage "Any publicity is good publicity" holds true for a politician (except Boris, and nobody knows how he manages that).

Surely these days when everyone has a mobile phone and a direct line to a national newspaper you'd want to be a bit more careful about stuff like this?

[jmorgan]

There will be a lot of people picking up the pitch fork silently thinking that could have been me in the picture...

[Le Mans Visitor]

What is making me giggle is that Daybreak have sent a 'senior' reporter to the services to report on this non story, asking people stupid 'Daybreakesque' questions. To top it off here is another one outside number 11 (which iirc is where David Cameron lives as he has kids and is bigger than Number 10)

Good one Daybreak, go and find some real news.

[elster]

RizzoTheRat said:

Tebbers said:

The car belonged to his security contingent, which was reversing via a disabled bay while he went to get food. Non story.

Except it is a news story, and I don't believe the old addage "Any publicity is good publicity" holds true for a politician (except Boris, and nobody knows how he manages that).

Surely these days when everyone has a mobile phone and a direct line to a national newspaper you'd want to be a bit more careful about stuff like this?

Absolutely, do you think they should sack the security officers for parking in a disabled bay?

[RizzoTheRat]

elster said:

Absolutely, do you think they should sack the security officers for parking in a disabled bay?

Depends if his driver claims it was his wife driving not him. .

[turbobloke]

This is (as others have said) a matter for those who brief and train ministerial drivers. The Boy George was a spectator like the onlookers faking outrage. If experience is anything to go by, every other disabled parking bay would be empty, the generosity over spaces does credit to our planning for those less fortunate. As to security reasons for occupying such a space, if that's in the brief and the training then so be it.

[elster]

RizzoTheRat said:

elster said:

Absolutely, do you think they should sack the security officers for parking in a disabled bay?

Depends if his driver claims it was his wife driving not him. .

Let's be honest the driver wont be a Lib Dem, that's scraping the barrel and holding the driver in a very low regard.

[anonymous-user]

Jasandjules said:

Yes but he's of no importance to anyone or anything.

You're obviously not a fan. But he is one of the most powerful men in Britain, so is very obviously important.

[greygoose]

Bit of a blunder by the police driver, I am sure the boy George would have been safe if he had parked at a proper space, I wonder if Osborne recoiled in horror at the price of his service station sandwich like the rest of us do?

[jmorgan]

Was it a blunder? Wonder what the close protection rules are (or whatever the correct term is)?

[Pesty]

greygoose said:

Bit of a blunder by the police driver, I am sure the boy George would have been safe if he had parked at a proper space, I wonder if Osborne recoiled in horror at the price of his service station sandwich like the rest of us do?

Dont worry about that you can be sure he will claim it all back.