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I don't really think its the word specifically. Its the fact that he thought that, on having a volley of abuse delivered to them by one of his betters, the police should have doffed their caps and do as they were ordered.
If anyone else tried effing and jeffing at the police in the street, you'd be spending night in the cells, then probably charged with a public order offence. If you doubt that, go and give it a try.
So... in reality he'd already got off lightly. But his monstrous ego, and monumental arrogance wouldn't allow him to even countenance that. People must pay for daring to not bow to his will. [b]DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!! [/b]is always a great character trait
Deserves everything he gets really
That's just lazy stereotyping, Ernie. 😀 . Typical Channel 4.
And yes, bumptious pricks like Mitchell deserve everything they get. Has his Wiki entry been tampered with, or is this true?
He was educated at Rugby School, at which school the self-confessed "stern disciplinarian" earned the nickname "Thrasher".
is that what you meant and I'm misreading you
I meant I am a lying thicko. [ your account was clearly more accurate than mine]
If anyone else tried effing and jeffing at the police in the street, you'd be spending night in the cells, then probably charged with a public order offence. If you doubt that, go and give it a try.
E-mails Greatape to arrange a meeting.......all in the name of science 😉
*wipes dust off truncheon, stands nonchalantly twirling handcuffs*
*reads post and wishes to clarify that neither of those is a euphemism*
I had to google "effing and jeffing", apparently it's a term that northerners use. Down South where we speak like what the Queen does it's "effing and blinding".
*wipes dust off truncheon, stands nonchalantly twirling handcuffs*
Steady now you seem to have mistaken me for a toff Tory MP and I have no need for such "private services"
From what I remember of my journalist law, a libel is committed if what is published causes a person to be "lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people". Therefore there was no libel in this case because everyone already thought he was a cock.
Some toff (Michael Brown) on Radio 4 this morning was saying how it could have all been avoided if Mitchell just 'stopped this bicycling nonsense' (or some such) and used his ministerial car. "This is why ministerial cars are provided, to protect ministers from incidences of this kind" (ie interacting with plebs), using Eric Pickles as an example. Made me chuckle.
Ah, but did right-thinking people even know who he was before 'Plebgate'?
Of course, it's arguable that no MP could advance a claim of libel under that definition.
Pretty marginal defamation claim at the best of times. The difference in reputational damage between swearing at an officer (which he admitted) and swearing at him with the addition of the word pleb is debateable.
using Eric Pickles as an example.
Eh? Have I been wrongly assuming for all these years that 'Eric Pickles' was the Downing Street cat?
The fact that he can't fit through the pedestrian gate should have been a clue.
Eh? Have I been wrongly assuming for all these years that 'Eric Pickles' was the Downing Street cat?
😀
The cat could probably do his job (whatever it is) better.
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Eric Pickles, yesterday.
The fact that he can't fit through the pedestrian gate should have been a clue.
Gate duty for me and my lack of wit then 🙂
'Eric Pickles' - how apt.
It is perhaps not surprising, given that this is the "United" [b]Kingdom[/b], that politicians seem to forget they are [i]our[/i] employees...