Plebgate..

[davek]

Exactly. As much as I dislike the Tories, this was obviously a 'don't [Poor language removed] with us' thing from the Met. They were always comfortable under the conservatives until this government started swinging the axe. Personally I think they're out of control and it was good old T Blair who really gave them carte blanche. They seem far more enthusiastic about beating students into comas, wrestling tourists to the ground for taking photos and kettling disabled people and pensioners than actually trying to stop chavs burning, murdering and looting in the riots.

At the moment - when all's said and done - we still remain at the point where this is two on-duty coppers who are adamant that Mitchell said what he said (agreed by both sides apart from the pleb stuff) and the cctv footage, for all the bluster about it, doesn't contradict that. If Mitchell is allowed back into frontline politics (as the Tories seem to want to happen) that is a huge slap down and shunts everything into a grey area about how much police testimony is worth. Not a place 'the party of law and order' want to be at all.

I dont think the Met are on the end of a hook here (as uncomfortable as it may be for them at the moment), the Tories are. Let's see how serious they are about reinstating Mitchell and/or demanding the heads of top coppers over this. Going into the next election defending a record of cuts and tumbling living standards - you wouldn't want the nation's most powerful police force, with all their info, daggers drawn against you.

 

[peteblue]

I think there is a bigger issue here. No one really gives a stuff about the ex chief whip who appears to be a prat of the highest order. The word of a Policeman used to be regarded as the truth. There is now the possibility of police collusion that brings down a member of the government. What next, the Prime Minister called me an oik, the Met decides to change the government.... Of course the Met may only be bothered about how a newspaper got a copy of the police log, but politicians of all parties should be fearful of this development if it goes deeper than just one errant copper.....

 

[peteblue]

Linkz plz

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20795489

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...here-for-black-kids-from-brixton-8426495.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...unched-into-plot-to-oust-Andrew-Mitchell.html

 

[Mrk]

Very worrying stuff - if a police officer is prepared to lie over something so insignificant than god knows what else they're prepared to lie about to cover for a friend or colleague.

I'm not a great fan of Mitchell, he's always come across as a bit of a prat, but he's had his reputation sullied because of now what appears to be a lie - that's deplorable, regardless of his position or political persuasion.

 

[davek]

The top brass of the police are, by and large, bent as ****. It's just comical seeing them biting the hand that usually fed them over the years...I'll bet the Tories are soon regretting taking an axe to the policing budget.

When thieves fall out. Hilarious.