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September 23, 2012 12:26 pm

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In a Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday, 2010 Tory voters were asked if Mitchell should stay or go over his “F**king plebs” attack on police. The results aren’t good for the Chief Whip:

Will Cameron cling on to someone  who is so obviously a liability with his ow voters…?

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  • LeeMatthews

    People do and say things when they are in a bad mood (we don’t know what mood he was in). He has apologised to the officers, who could have taken it further, had they so wished. If all MP’s had to resign over every little thing that they did wrong, we would have elections every Thursday.

    • AlanGiles

       It comes as no surprise that a Chief Whip is a foul-mouthed bully – it is almost to be expected, but this story is going on for too long for Mitchell to get away with it, and further revelations against his manner has emerged in todays newspapers. According to a radio press review I heard this morning, Mitchell “ordered” somebody to let his daughters pass on their horses in his village. This was on one of the red top tabloids (? The People?), but I can’t see him being chief whip for much longer. No doubt somebody equally obnoxious will replace him.

    • http://twitter.com/waterwards dave stone

      On Radio 5 yesterday there was an interview with a teenager who had been sentenced to 4 months in prison for swearing at the police. Mitchell should be subjected to the same legal process, and if found guilty, banged-up for the same period.

      • LeeMatthews

        the police officers could have arrested him but chose not to.  They were on the receiving end of this. I don’t condone his behavior, but it’s up to each officer to make a decision and then arrest. They chose not to. 

        • Brumanuensis

          Presumably afraid of the consequences. Some inconsequential little oik is fine, but a Cabinet minister? Not so much.

    • Brumanuensis

      I’m frequently in a bad mood and yet miraculously I manage to avoid swearing at other members of the public, when in such a mood. Keeping your temper isn’t a particularly difficult thing to do.

      That said, I don’t necessarily think Mitchell ought to resign, but he has come out very badly from this incident, if the details are true.

      • Alexwilliamz

        Indeed, I think it was more the form the abuse took that has shocked people, that and the timing. If he had called the officer an f***ing jobsworth or similar many people might well have been sympathetic as many people could empathise with the experience of someone sticking to the official line instead of offering a bit of initiative.

        • Brumanuensis

          Indeed Alex, or if he’d just uttered something along the lines of ‘for f*** sake’ or ‘this is f****** ridiculous’ etc. It’s the personalisation of the abuse that’s particularly toxic and for it to be directed at a policeman too.

    • Alexwilliamz

      If many public servants had such an outburst when in a bad mood, they would be in pretty hot water and would at the least face disciplinary proceedings. Of course their is a hierarchal thing going on here, as in this country it appears to be OK to rant and lose it with those ‘beneath you’ woe betide if it is ever the other way round. An unfortunate inheritance from the noxious class system, that at times floats to the surface like the proverbial turd in a sewer!

    • Mr Arthur Cook

      Some issues:

      1. If a 16 year old was taken to the police station having sworn at the police and Mr Mitchell was present would he offer “Oh let him off … he was probably just in a bad mood”. Or would he offer the classic Tory view we know so well …”he must feel the full weight of the law”?
      2. Is it appropriate that a public servant should hold in open contempt those who they are paid to serve by referring to them as “plebs”? In a representative democracy, is it healthy that an elected representative clearly holds the view that he  is “superior” to those he serves?
      3. Should a member of a political party where a member of the cabinet vilifies working class young people as a “feral underclass” be allowed to behave in a manner which sets an appalling example. I note that antisocial behaviour is smiled at when its perpetrators are members of the Bullingdon’s “feral upperclass”.

      Finally, I will admit that opinion is divided on whether Mr Mitchell should resign or not. You feel he should not….I, and apparently most of the Tories think he should.

  • Daniel Speight

    A link to a Boris Johnson YouTube clip on Guido’s website well worth watching.

    http://order-order.com/2012/09/21/boris-says-arrest-mitchell/

    • Alexwilliamz

      Most amusing I wonder what worse crimes Mitchell has in mind.

  • Mr Arthur Cook

    And today we are treated to…. He said he wanted to “draw a line” under last Wednesday’s incident.”
    Ah yes…I’m sure he does.
    Is this to be the new “script” that magistrates can expect from the “pleb” criminals who are hauled before them to receive “the full force of the law” that the Tories are so fond of?
    I wonder what the “Tory beak’s” response will be to kids from council estates when they offer to “…draw a line under the incident and move on”?

    Don’t sack him. Keep him!!!! As a shining example of the reality which lurks behind the mask.

    A voice echoes through time:
    No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. 

    Aneurin Bevan  

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