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Is "Plebgate" the most over-egged non-story ever?
The 12th Doctor
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Plebgate is just...nothing. Crap nobody cares about concerning people who have actual jobs to do other than complain about some stuck-up bureaucrat allegedly saying a word they don't like. Why is it STILL making headlines?
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Well, extra threads like this don't help.
Ok, good point.
I await "Gategate" so we can realise how stupid it is to keep using the suffix.
Should never have made headlines in the first place.
He's now had to pay £80k compensation to the pc whose life he virtually ruined.
So not only did he insult all police-men/women by referring to them as plebs,
it also highlights how a high-ranking Tory is prepared to lie even under oath...
which is quite a big issue in the eyes of most decent people in this country.
followed by
Moral, to be learnt by all politicians:
Don't deny something you did or said and then try to bluster your way out of it by taking people to court for libel.
Mitchell is the latest in a long line of politicians of all colours who have been caught out and then denied it. It always seems to be the denials and cover ups that get them in the end, not the actual event.
No because it goes to the credibility and attitude of those in power. Not an irrelevant story at all.
They actually tried to use gategate for this story in the beginning
gategate
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1328971/creme-egg-gate-consumer-backlash-mondelez-tweaks-recipe
I'd have thought the police officers who lied and falsified witness statements would have done more for that
http://news.sky.com/story/1438367/pc-gets-80000-plebgate-damages-payout
Peripherals....
Mitchell swore at the officers present and called them plebs, then denied it and also lied under oath in court. Perjury and perverting the course of justice are crimes that most of us ordinary plebs would get locked up for.
Utter storm in a teacup and a ludicrous outcome.
Yeah, well if only he didn't deny and lie about it, it would've all blown over.
He then even had the nerve to try claim for damages.
It must have been a big teacup
From the link I provided
Will that be on the taxpayer or on him ?
At least there was an actual gate in the Plebgate story.
"Egg! He said Egg!" - Pliny
He is supposed to be a cop not a bl00dy wet lump!
Have you managed to get the voting register sorted out yet?
What a damning indictment of Cameron's government that is.
But that can't be true as all the officers present gave evidence they did not hear the conversation where the word was said to have been used.
The only other police officer who calmed he heard the conversation was not present and was exposed as a liar and fantasist.
And the officer at which Mitchell aimed his words can't take much comfort from the judges words that he was too stupid to make it up.
Toss in the 3 Midlands police officers who didn't realise their recorded conversation with Mitchell was at odds with what they said publicly...we had a right carry on.
Hence the proverb...Riding a bike through a gate is like riding through the eye of a storm...
And that's how it works time and again, whichever government, organisation or individual it is.