[flagpole]

Originally Posted by swingaleg

I don't think it works like that.............the noise from the opposition and media is a background but wether a minister resigns or not ultimately depends on wether he loses the support of his own side.

Jeremy Hunt never had to resign over the B Sky B affair even though that was a lot more serious than Mitchell.............Hunt was popular within the Tory Party and they stood by him

This is entirely about the public's interpretation. They don't care about a failure to disclose an interest, that sort of thing. but the pleb thing, because it was designed to do so, really hit a nerve.

[Nessun Dorma]

Originally Posted by glasshalffull

There's two important differences:

1) Hunt had a SpAd he could throw under the bus...Mitchell was pushing his own bike

2) Hunt's sins were ones of omission...failing to open his gob to ensure his SpAD was behaving properly...Mitchell's was one of commission...opening his gob.

And while the media jumped on the "pleb" issue...the fact remains (and he admits) having a foul mouthed exchange with police on a security detail when they would not do what he wanted them to.

Something that had he been a cleaner trying to leave Downing Street might well have got him arrested or at very least given a good talking to by the cops.

I think you'll find the only difference was that Hunt had friends in higher places (higher than Cameron) and Mitchell didn't have any friends at all.

[Jilly]

Originally Posted by Nessun Dorma

I think you'll find the only difference was that Hunt had friends in higher places (higher than Cameron) and Mitchell didn't have any friends at all.

Whose that then, The Queen?

[flagpole]

Originally Posted by Nessun Dorma

I think you'll find the only difference was that Hunt had friends in higher places (higher than Cameron) and Mitchell didn't have any friends at all.

The shadow world government? The Pope? The Bilderberg group? Illuminati?

Any hope that you can back that up at all?

[David Tee]

Originally Posted by Jilly

Whose that then, The Queen?

Originally Posted by flagpole

The shadow world government? The Pope? The Bilderberg group? Illuminati?

Any hope that you can back that up at all?

God. Or Len McLuskey.

[swingaleg]

Originally Posted by Jilly

Whose that then, The Queen?

higher than that............Murdoch !