This has to get its own thread.
Why oh why everybody doesn't adopt the British class system completely baffles me. How else can you colonials hope to have a case of such profound significance as this one? Did MP Andrew Mitchell call the police 'plebs' when they refused to open the main gates to Downing Street and utterly humiliated him by asking him to pass through a side gate? Did the police not realise their lower social status obliges them to defer to their betters?
At one time, 30 detectives were investigating aspects of this case. 30! I kid you not. Coppers have been sacked, Mitchell has lost his job and revolution may yet come to our streets before this saga is over. France had the Dreyfus case, the US had OJ, we have plebgate. Beat that, Johnny Foreigner!
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Police span a "web of lies" that led to the "Plebgate" campaign of "vitriolic" newspaper stories against ex-chief whip Andrew Mitchell, a court has heard. Mr Mitchell resigned in 2012 after the Sun reported he had called Downing Street officers "plebs". He is suing News Group Newspapers, with his lawyers saying the police account of the incident was "wholly false". He accepts he swore at the police when they refused to open a Downing Street gate for him to leave on his bicycle. |
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Originally Posted by BBC Ex-cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell had "form or history" of "verbal aggression" against police, the High Court has heard. Mr Mitchell, who resigned as chief whip over the "plebgate" affair, had been involved in several incidents involving officers since 2005, it heard. He is suing News Group Newspapers after the Sun reported he swore at police and called them "plebs" when they stopped him at Downing Street gates in 2012. He denies using the word "pleb". The Conservative MP has admitted swearing, but says he did not swear at the officers. The officer at the gates, PC Toby Rowland, is suing Mr Mitchell for comments he made after the altercation. Monday's hearing was held ahead of full libel cases, which are unlikely to start before next year. |
Why oh why everybody doesn't adopt the British class system completely baffles me. How else can you colonials hope to have a case of such profound significance as this one? Did MP Andrew Mitchell call the police 'plebs' when they refused to open the main gates to Downing Street and utterly humiliated him by asking him to pass through a side gate? Did the police not realise their lower social status obliges them to defer to their betters?
At one time, 30 detectives were investigating aspects of this case. 30! I kid you not. Coppers have been sacked, Mitchell has lost his job and revolution may yet come to our streets before this saga is over. France had the Dreyfus case, the US had OJ, we have plebgate. Beat that, Johnny Foreigner!
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