Advice to the Chief Wimp: try a little sincerity when you speak, perhaps in your resignation speech.

As Inspector Morse once said “the rich think the rules don’t apply to them”

By being evasive and refusing to say exactly what he did say, Mitchell has dug himself even further into the hole he’s so deservedly in. Personally, I’m much less bothered by his alleged use of the word “pleb” than the fact that this very highly taxpayer-paid holder of one of the most senior offices of the government chose to swear and speak contemptuously and disrespectfully to a police officer put in place to guard his life and that of his colleagues. If we allow our elected leadership to get away with treating the police like that, how can we expect to enforce respectful treatment of police officers on duty of anybody? I’m inclined to believe the accounts of the foul-mouthed “know your place” comments, and it’s for these that he should be removed from office.

No doubt CCTV recordings are being examined by lip readers at New Scotland Yard. The police on duty would know about this possibility whereas Mitchell will still be thinking it is his word against the police.

He appears to be a twat that has been caught out acting like a twat and now the public believes he’s a twat and those around him are twats by association. He can spin all he likes but he might as well have ‘Twat’ tattooed on his forehead because it’s stuck to him now.
The majority of the public probably didn’t understand the ‘pleb’ reference until it was spelled out by the media but all are now quite certain that it is quite possibly the worst insult in the the world. Doubly so if spoken by a twat.

Can’t he claim he said “plods” rather than “plebs”. Honestly, no ability to think on his feet.

Who cares if its the Police seeking revenge on the Govt which are slashing their ranks or the Sun seeking revenge for Hackgate/Leveson: the important thing are the facts which are these.
1) A senior Cabinet Minister swore at and abused Police officers who risk their lives in protecting him and his ilk. The exact wording is disputed, but I’m more inclined to believe the several officers who heard him rather than the unsupported word of Mitch.
2) In doing so he demonstrated that he is a nasty foul-mouthed little ‘Pleb’ himself and entirely unfitted to be a Cabinet MInister.
3) Mitchell has a well-deserved reputation as an unpleasant bully ( how delicious that he attended Rugby, Flashman’s alma mater) and its great when bullies are…well…bullied.
4) Mitchell is also an ambitious little creep who would do anything to advance his miserable career including switching from being David Davis’s campaign mgr to being the most odious of Cameroons, throwing our millions away on corrupt Third World messes.
5) Destroying Mitchell would also damage David Cameron, and bringing him down is an essential step in preserving Britain as a free and independent nation .
I rest my case.

The BBC are reporting that a man was jailed for 16 weeks last year, for swearing at a police officer during the riots. Why is Andrew Mitchell allowed to swear at a police officer and not be arrested and up in Court?

It’s one rule for the plebs and another for the Toffs.

With the caveat that I detest Andrew Mitchell have we really reached the stage where the words of a temper tantrum have to be forensically dissected to prove he is an “arrogant toff” and to further feed the politics of envy and class war that seem to have been resurrected lately? Has Britain become a place where the words uttered and their minute implications, even in a burst of anger, are a matter for headline news?

Two sides of an angry altercation, even with policemen involved, are rarely remembered exactly the same way by each protagonist. And as for the shadow Home Secretary jumping on this puerile bandwagon to score political points – is that the shape of things to come. In power will Yvette issue a decree that police must be respected in all circumstances and whatever they do even when they step over the line of courtesy themselves? That losing one’s temper and delivering an angry tirade is not just boorish but potentially criminal.

Legs? Stories are given legs by the media and the Labour party, seldom a burden to the actual events and seldom showing any respect to impartiality, pragmatism or forbearance. Labour gaffes seldom have “legs” and are quickly forgotten. Prescott committed an act of assault on the person in full public view and escaped prosecution, let alone demands for an apology or resignation.

Mitchell’s lack of clarity is probably because he said something like, “I’ll have your job !”, which would make it apt for the Met to retaliate and “have his job” instead.