Conservative MP - Police Rant.

[Marf]

He's just resigned.

[Randy Winkman]

Marf said:

He's just resigned.

[scenario8]

That'll stop the media banging on about George Osbourne not using the train ticket attributed to him then.

[martin84]

In fairness the BBC didn't even mention the Osborne story on the news at 6.

[Jasandjules]

Marf said:

He's just resigned.

Good. Govt are not doing themselves any favours right now.

[birdcage]

He was having a bad day and then stitched up, the police probably need specialist psychological counselling to get over this on long term sick leave

[Blib]

birdcage said:

He was having a bad day and then stitched up, the police probably need specialist psychological counselling to get over this on long term sick leave

Or, he's an arrogant sod who got his comeuppance.

[eharding]

birdcage said:

He was having a bad day and then stitched up, the police probably need specialist psychological counselling to get over this on long term sick leave

I think you'll find your average plod is made of sterner stuff - no, a couple of therapeutic days off playing Blind Man's Zap down at the Taser training range, and they'll be back on the job, right as rain.

[Marf]

eharding said:

I think you'll find your average plod is made of sterner stuff - no, a couple of therapeutic days off playing Blind Man's Zap down at the Taser training range, and they'll be back on the job, right as rain.

[Jasandjules]

birdcage said:

He was having a bad day and then stitched up, the police probably need specialist psychological counselling to get over this on long term sick leave

Sorry, but if you call someone a pleb then deny it, and tell them they need to know their place, then deny, it's not a "stitch up". Now, if they shot him and planted a gun in his hand, you'd have a point......

[Mermaid]

Blib said:

Or, he's an arrogant sod who got his comeuppance.

He is not alone... but he was honest about his feelings.

[Pupp]

Which paper has scooped the interview with the bystanders then? Guess we'll know what he *did* say tomorrow morning...

[smegmore]

Good riddance to the toffee-nosed arrogant tt.

[Mr Snap]

With Apologies to Peter Cooke:

George Osborne to Andrew Mitchell: "I want you to lay down your life, Mitchell. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don't come back. Goodbye, Mitchell.
God, I wish I was going too..."

[Victor McDade]

On yer bike Mr Mitchell

[deadslow]

Jasandjules said:

birdcage said:

He was having a bad day and then stitched up, the police probably need specialist psychological counselling to get over this on long term sick leave

Sorry, but if you call someone a pleb then deny it, and tell them they need to know their place, then deny, it's not a "stitch up". Now, if they shot him and planted a gun in his hand, you'd have a point......

He'd ordinarily have been let off (the police actually do know their place ), but the police have been pissed off by this government, so they have simply stood their ground and the tory twazzer had to eventually admit defeat. Good. Makes CMD look out of touch and very weak, which he is.

[FiF]

deadslow said:

He'd ordinarily have been let off (the police actually do know their place ), but the police have been pissed off by this government, so they have simply stood their ground and the tory twazzer had to eventually admit defeat. Good. Makes CMD look out of touch and very weak, which he is.

Well said, be on your way too Camoron (sic)

They really are dead men walking aren't they?

[Dibble]

FiF said:

deadslow said:

He'd ordinarily have been let off (the police actually do know their place ), but the police have been pissed off by this government, so they have simply stood their ground and the tory twazzer had to eventually admit defeat. Good. Makes CMD look out of touch and very weak, which he is.

Well said, be on your way too Camoron (sic)

They really are dead men walking aren't they?

How much more damage will they do (to ALL public services) before they're gone though? Not that there isn't the need for some reform.

And will the next shower be any better/worse?

[petemurphy]

theres a lesson here for all of us



use cars not bikes

[turbobloke]

Dibble said:

FiF said:

deadslow said:

He'd ordinarily have been let off (the police actually do know their place ), but the police have been pissed off by this government, so they have simply stood their ground and the tory twazzer had to eventually admit defeat. Good. Makes CMD look out of touch and very weak, which he is.

Well said, be on your way too Camoron (sic)

They really are dead men walking aren't they?

How much more damage will they do (to ALL public services) before they're gone though? Not that there isn't the need for some reform.

And will the next shower be any better/worse?

Almost certainly worse overall but some will be better off, if it's Labour then based on their last failed go at running the country, those better off will be the wealthiest one percent.

That doesn't make the present shower any better and CMD is woeful.

In terms of damaging public services, making the cost match more closely the money available isn't damaging as such, it's simply a reality check and it would be irresponsible not to do something. The problem is they're barely scratching the surface and still spending too much.