accountantpete
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His nickname at school was "Thrasher" so perhaps he is mellowing in his old age.
Were the Downing Street police men being unreasonable?
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His nickname at school was "Thrasher" so perhaps he is mellowing in his old age.
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Sara_H
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I do too, but to be fair there was a spokesperson on the BBC from the Met this morning linking the two seperate stories.
What happened in Manchester is irrelevant to this case.
You might have a bit of a look at who he is and what he has done. Apart from an accident of birth he generally seems to be the sort of person we should welcome in politics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mitchell
accountantpete
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The link is that Policewomen were involved in both cases. It was extraordinarily clumsy of him to shout at a policewomen just after the appalling events in Manchester.
Why? Does the two policewomen getting shot, tragic as it was, suddenly make the rest all angels who can do no wrong?
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Sara_H
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That doesn't link the two cases.
Noodley
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The Tories are all arrogant twats.
Everyone of them should be forced to crawl on their knees thru large piles of cow muck for a few days.
Then whipped by large blokes who have been made redundant due to their mis-management of the economy.
It's only fair, after all. "We're all in this together"
Everyone of them should be forced to crawl on their knees thru large piles of cow muck for a few days.
Then whipped by large blokes who have been made redundant due to their mis-management of the economy.
It's only fair, after all. "We're all in this together"
addictfreak
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Tazering Tories should be a national sport!
Q. What's the difference between God and a politician?
A. God doesn't think he's a politician.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Yes. Downing street - you might have heard of it.
Drago
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If Johnny had breached an instruction and had let him through, it might very well have landed him in discliplinary trouble - remember, ours is one of the few jobs where we can be fined out of our wages as punsihment for an infraction. If a copper dispobeys an order and something untoward occurs as a consequence thay can be prosecuted for it. If I'd been ordered to do something, I'd follow it to the letter, notwithstanding any emergency etc that might arise which would permit my to draw upon my professional judgement and disretion to decide on a course of action.
But it wasn't an emergency, Johnny has his orders, and quite rightly he wasn't going to do otherwise. Being a toff and full of ones own self importance is not a lawful justification for an officer in a disciplined organisation to disobey an order.
PS, apologies for terrible typing. not a good day for my meccanno elbow and I've no feeling in one hand.
But it wasn't an emergency, Johnny has his orders, and quite rightly he wasn't going to do otherwise. Being a toff and full of ones own self importance is not a lawful justification for an officer in a disciplined organisation to disobey an order.
PS, apologies for terrible typing. not a good day for my meccanno elbow and I've no feeling in one hand.
I was thinking more along the lines of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_road
And Downing Street isn't one.
