Boris Says Arrest Mitchell
Listen to the crowd lap up the Mayor’s call for people to be arrested for swearing at the police. Awkward.
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Now will people believe that Boris is not a Tory.
He clearly does not believe in free speech ( plus he against benefit cap).
Neither does this website!!
Fuck off, Billy, you tiresome knobhead.
Fuck off, B1lly, you tiresome knobhead.
Take your own advice stalker.
“stalker”? lol, you should be so lucky!
I think 8i££y would love you to stalk him, he likes suprises and he might give you one
If not a stalker, then what?
GROW SOME BALLS MR BUTCH CAMERON AND SACK HIM TODAY.
You should see the police inertia round our place on Friday/Saturday nights.
Effin & blinding, street fights, burglaries (they don’t bother coming out – just give you a crime number!), and, in one instance, actually watched some bastards stripping lettering off the local cenotaph.
In the main, they are bone idle useless tossers.
Been modded. What for, I don’t know.
Maybe it’s because you support S..t..o..k..e../ City!
What I was trying to say about the police, and got modded for, is that where I come from, if you have a break-in the police don’t even come out, but just give you a crime. number. On Fri/Sat evenings, they tend to stand round & let the town be taken over. They also “watched” nearby when some you-know-whats sprayed grafitti over the local w,a,r, mem*rial. Welcome to 2012 Britain folks!
Me too and for a perfectly reasonable and sensible response to 133 above. Maybe I forgot to include the usual swear words.
It would not be right for me to sack for me to sack Andrew, he has made a full apology, which has been accepted by the policeman concerned. In addition, he used to shag me when I was his fag at Eton.
I heard it was her hairy pocket.
I thought it was already an offence ?
It is!
misread it – thought boris was calling for it to become illegal as opposed to it already being illegal and mitchel to be arrested for breaking that law.
No it isn’t.
The CPS issued guidance that Plod is unlikely to be alarmed or distressed by swearing as they encounter it routinely.
They could still ask for a case to be brought, but then they’d look like soft twats.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.
And if any bedwetter posts after this that words can hurt people, I will fucking kill them, metaphorically of course.
Oi – I used a similar saying just recently – when I faced the smears from the baying mob of low-life sub-intelligent troll herdsmen.
We nearly got to the stage where people could be arrested for irony.
By the same reasonIng Courts should also be unaffected by swearing since they hear it on a daily basis yet try calling a judge a fucking old dirty c unt and see what happens to you. One law for them yet again.
I possess a beautiful copy of a court transcript where an elderly female judge stated clearly that ‘fuck off’ is a clear legal instruction.
But does it work both ways? Ahh no.
If that’s the case – I refer to a D Mail front page article earlier this year where The D Mail published that we could call the police pigs etc.
So – Let’s have Dacre and his master Rotherman arrested.
Just try to stop me swearing at the “pigs”
Quite right Dale, they can’t touch you for it.
Might have a bit more difficulty with the other charges though..
Judging by all those police tv thingies the the coppers do arrest people swear if they do not desist after 2 times on asking them not to. No doubt Mad Mitch would be wellcome on this blog but he would get as good good as he gave
When I was growing up in the 70s the police were smart, professional, and so were a body to be respected. Now it appears for every honest copper there is a sociopath and an egotist to balance him out. They are scruffy in their quasi-SWAT gear. Some of the most dishonest and morally corrupt I know carry a warrant card. Forget soldiers into schools. I think many police forces, or services (God help us), would benefit from having some senior Army on their payroll.
Coppers were
- respected
- big and burly
- butch
- plain talking
- to the point
- stood for no nonsense
- called a spade a spade (and actually knew what one was)
- would clip you round the ear, – and then forget the matter
- rode a bicycle or walked the streets
- were seen – often having a friendly chat with people
but enough …
er. bit selective in your memories…..they also used to have a lot of prisoners “falling down stairs, m’lud” or “injuries sustained during arrest,m’lud” and some witness statements were “pure fiction” and ” incriminating items” mysteriously appeared in your pocket…..ah they were the days when you could patrol the streets with nothing but a whistle and a truncheon to protect you and could give a villian a good kicking without fear of the PCC being called in….. still mind how you go !!!
Yeah, So !
I’ve witnessed innocent people beaten to the ground with truncheons on a few occasions.
Would I be pushing it too far with my trip down memory lane if I was to point out these prisoners were natural born British men not Russians, Somalians, Turks, Albanians, Romanians, and Jamaicans who seem to account for a lot of crime today? Or is that a step too far?
We’re the Sweeney son, and we haven’t had our dinner…
blame ray wcinstone
It was’nt pretty but it worked and the public were a lot safer.I speak from experience.
I had that Mitchell feller in the back of my cab the other day. Fucking pleb.
Of course Mitchell is a pleb.
He works for a living. Unlike me, of course.
Ker-ching!!!!
It’s all a load of bollocks.
And give him a 5 stretch for being drunk in charge of a bicycle.
I heard the other day somebody lost their license for being pissed in charge of a bike and they were pushing it home.
Probably in France. I can’t believe they’ve stooped to that level here. Yet. Unless it was a motorbike. They’re fit to do that in the UK, the c*unts.
Was pushbike and here in the UK. I think it is also correct you can be done if you have car keys in your pocket and you are stood near your car ( with no intention of getting in it ) if pissed.
Modern myth.
He might want to appeal that then. Like I say, that’s the kind of fuckwittery I expect from the French.
Also, if pissed, I expect to be allowed to sleep it off on the back seat of the car without being arrested or ba*nn*ed.
Surely the purpose of the law is to stop people dri*ving their car while dr*unk – ‘cos that’s potentially dangerous to others. It ain’t to stop people pushing their bikes or kipping in the fucking thing. ‘Cos that ain’t dangerous.
The magistrate must really hate that chap. But that’s no reason to lose your licence.
not withstanding mythology I think it’s right if you are over the limit riding a pushbike you lose your driving license wherever you are riding the bike.
Your talking bollocks.
Well said Mr Johnson. Now if you can apply that logic to the said Mr Mitchell (No relation of the Grant guy on that BBC Soap as he seems to have many like traits?) and have the man removed to obscurity then you’re standing within the Met and country would rise to new heights! But if your comments are just hot air and populist rhetoric then you’re condemned as just another empty politician.
Tom Watson is not an empty politician, he is full of pie and chips, brrrrrp.
So are Pickles & Prezza, but self over inflation seems to be a politician’s passion.
I wouldn’t talk about me bruvver like that, if I wanted to stay ‘ealthy, guv. That Andy Mitchell bloke is a right prat and, I’m glad to say, ‘e’s no relation; Grant wouldn’t appreciate the comparison. Just a bit o’ friendly advice, ya might want to call it…
Ooh, get her.
The prospect of getting on the wrong side of Ross “Hardman” Kemp would have any (heterosexual) male quaking in his boots.
Er Becky Brooks?
we know what yah mean phil .. point very pointedly taken .
sorry squire
Funny how everything blows up when an MP calls a copper a pleb but when they steal from the taxpayer its OK.
When they take a country to war on a pack of lies its OK.
When they ruin an economy its OK.
How true.
Violins and choirs of heavenly angels can be heard, for the bag that is Tessa has been reunited with the her thieving hubby.
Awwwwwwww.
Is she unrepairing an unbroken marraige?
Ah love, then resignation due to her impossible position. Eh?
Marriage is just a convenience to a labour MP.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh.
To be flushed away at a whim!
Never got in my way!
Thats not fair a separation can be a convenience as well.
Don’y say that to Michael Gove.
Mo he is pob not pleb
Is it one I know?
Who could possibly have seen that one coming.
An ‘interview’ she gave on R4 Women’s Hour earlier this week was nauseating.
post her ministerial job, anything is possible in the fakesheikh world of tessa jowel.
+ Googolplex
+1
+ All the grains of sand on Newgale Beach
Was a Nokia involved in the making of this scandal?
It must be, – it can only be – GORDON BROWN! – for treachery, misfeasance, non-feasance, feasance, – and sheer bloody wanton waste!
I agree with Boris. Arrest Thrasher. It’s a bloody shame the Plod didn’t on Wednesday night. Running off to put a complaint in with his boss is no way to run a plod force. Why is he getting special privileges?
My main beef with the plod is they have completely washed their hands of zero tolerance, petty crime and policing any form of low level disorder so am not surprised that an arrogant twit like Mitchell actually has the nerve to pull a stunt like this.
In anything approaching the real world Mitchell would and should have been sacked on the spot.
Fine libertarian blog this is.
U.K. citizens can’t even fart without the old bill pressing charges.
The cops already have too much power and you people want to give ‘em more?
I really do despair.
And you’ll be the first c**ts to ask what happened when you wake up with rifle to your computer chipped heads!
boris should stick to his job as london mayor, not a media tart.
BOTH the Politicians AND the Plod are getting way above their station!
What an absolute arsehole is Johnson. Why should anybody be arrested for swearing at a bunch of arrogant bastards who might be perverting the course of justice by manipulating reports such as the Hillsborough evidence and others. I have no respect for the police whatsoever.
I have even less for a twat like you who.
+1
I take it people wont be defending this copper and his mother in law? http://kebabtime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/pc-harwoods-mother-in-law-phones-up-lbc.html then again, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Where’s a “fuckwit watch” tag when you need it?
Boris, like Farage, is loose cannon on the deck loaded full of shit…
Jac Kregan?@76
PC Simon Harwood can fuck the fuck off for a fucking start the karnt.
What about swearing at Ken Livingstone?
Chief Whips use worse language on their charges every day.
An appeal case last year stated the police have become inured to people swearing at and around them:
Mr Harvey was fined £50 after he bombarded police with foul language while they attempted to search him for cannabis in Hackney, east London.
The 20-year-old told officers: “—- this man. I ain’t been smoking nothing.” When the search revealed no drugs, he continued: “Told you, you wouldn’t find —- all.” Asked whether he had a middle name, he replied: “No, I’ve already ——- told you so.” Magistrates at Thames Youth Court found him guilty in March last year after hearing that Mr Harvey’s expletives were uttered in a public area while a group of teenage bystanders gathered around.
“There were people around who don’t need to hear frightening and abusive words issuing from young men,” the magistrates said.
Appealing against his conviction, Mr Harvey claimed that none of those within earshot – especially the two hardened police officers – would have been upset by his swearing. Mr Justice Bean agreed that the expletives he used were heard “all too frequently” by officers on duty and were unlikely to have greatly disturbed them. The judge added that it was “quite impossible to infer that the group of young people who were in the vicinity were likely to have experienced alarm or distress at hearing these rather commonplace swear words used”.
Peter Smyth, the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: “If judges are going to say you can swear at police then everyone is going to start doing it. I’m not saying that police officers are going to go and hide in the corner and cry if someone tells them to ‘F’ off, but verbal abuse is not acceptable and this is the wrong message to be sending out.”
Met Police chiefs were accused of surrendering to foul-mouthed yobs earlier this year after they banned officers from arresting those who taunted them with offensive language. They warned officers that the courts would not believe they had been upset by four-letter words.
– The Daily Telegraph 20 November 2011
Can we tell judges to go and fuck themselves then ?
And the Mitchel rant was behind the gates so not in a public place!
Shame to see the Police Federation become part of the official opposition.
The police federation have been lefties for ages.
Sir Richard Mayne on the primary objects of an efficient police force:-
“Idle and silly remarks are unworthy of notice and should be disregarded.”
Somehow policemen running off to the papers to complain that a jumped up oik swore at them seems undignified. They should have clipped his ear and confiscated his bicycle for having no lights.
I think ‘pleb’ is a horrible thing to call someone of a lesser status.
I much prefer to use the term ‘squat-goblin’ when addressing the plebs.
I always thought a tirade of swearing was classed as verbal assault and was a criminal offence. The copper should have arrested him. Bloody arrogant politician.
Bloody useless policeman. someone breaks the law right in front of him and doesn’t do anything other than complain to the number ten staff that he has been verbally abused. They don’t make policemen like they used to.
Police hear swearing all the time as well as dishing it out themselves and are deemed to be more immune to it than the average man in the street. Still, it is unusual to hear of swearing by a government minister in the environs of Downing Street. Maybe the polcieman concerned was being particularly annoying and the minister is a bit of a tosser
OK so Police see murders and vicious assaults all the time so they must be immune to being victims of it errr
Should Rusbridger resign for presiding over a failing newspaper haemorrhaging millions?
should romney no have done the decent thing and stood down by now in favour of ron paul ..???
why moddy ?
you allowed it yesterday
time of the month??
Boy Am I fed up with lefty twats turning every gnats piss comment into
apologising / resigning issue.
your comment is awaiting hypothecation
I too have lost all respect for the police. It just seems that they are there to protect the so called “rights” of effnics, and can’t be arsed with the rest of us.
I suppose we can thank New Labour for this.
They should also be made to take a physical examination too, as they are, for the most part, as fat as pigs.
Having said all that, the two Police Officers shot recently is truly dreadful.
So do white boys, asian boys and quite a few girlies. Why do you only think black boys get arrested?
Look on the bright side Lee. If I fail my exams or can’t get a job I have to accept that it’s because I didn’t work hard enough or I’m not smart enough or that there are no jobs out there.
But a bl*ack kid can blame the exam system, the teachers, the school, his absent father-figure, the police, the courts, ‘institutionalised racism’, Uncle Tom Cobbly and all.
It’s tough being white and having to take responsibility for your own actions I can tell you. Bl*ack people (and the religion of peace and Labour) would fucking well hate it.
I’m not sure they could cope with the responsibility of being responsible for their own actions like I have to. They certainly don’t seem to show any aptitude for it.
Thats nuffin my teacher promised me a C minus if I managed to scrape enuf marks to get 33% or whateva, and once I got that I had a glittering future ahead of me. But Now theve changed the rools an it takes 34% to get a C minus and my life is utterly ruined.
Tory MP David Davies, who serves as a Special Constable, said: ‘This is a threat to law and order. When I trained in London four years ago, if someone swore directly at you – I was called a “f****** pig”, for instance – you would give them one warning, then arrest them if they refused to stop.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008207/Officers-told-arrest-people-scream-obscenities-courts-wont-convict.html
Isn’t he a tad old to be a credible special policeman?
You are thinking of David Davis
and wouldn’t we quake in our boots silly old sod…must have been many a ‘suits you sir’ moments and the size of his truncheon positively authoritarian
Agree with the sentiments, but too long winded.
What do you want @68, Blairtype sound bites?
Boris can’t be right all the time.
I dislike politicians sticking their noses in operational matters.
Chris Huhne can be wrong all the time.
I am still not clear why the police did not open the gate for Mr Mitchell. He was inside Downing Street trying to get out and posing no obvious security risk in trying to do so.
Tend to agree Common Sense. Our police are so upset about a lot of perks being taken off them, they’ve become a tad peevish. Plus most of them are die hard Leiber supporters. Bet they’d have let Princess Tony go through and they wouldn’t have dared to say “no” to the one eyed n…u..t..t..e..r.
The newly-promoted Tory lost his rag when police told him security rules mean they open the main gate as little as possible.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4549265/Andrew-Mitchell-insults-police-at-Downing-Street-by-calling-them-fing-plebs.html
I am legend.
I am leg end.
and I am a Bell-End!
Ding-dong!!!
Ker-ching!!!!
Well said S.B. Agree whole-heartedly!
Has some of it been redacted?, these FOI requests are a waste of time.
A bit too alliterative for my tastes
It’s ass’ o’nonce.
silent bob
are you perchance related to whispering bob harris the legendary music jock of some 50 years standing at the bbc ??
does soft speech and total silence run in thev family .??
Dixon of Damien Green: Well there you have it, we knew he was a wrong ‘un and he finally got his comeuppance. Night ‘all and mind how you go, (salutes).
SO6 eh? Mitchell was fortunate not to be shot.
http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Key-Services/1400006632973/1400006632973
Danny Shaw @BBC? Nuff said, Biased bast*rds.
Round of applause for Rupert now in order then?. Please pass on my heartfelt condolences to said SO6 officer and his family, the trauma of having to listen to an MP pushing a bike should warrant at least a 6 month sickie and an extended course of counselling.
+ ever so many Annette.
please don’t be harsh to the bobbies they have to put up with the scum of the earth everyday, especially those at Downing Street.
It’s the occasional gem like this video link that makes it still worthwhile skimming through the dross that comprises most of the comments on this site.
Police Federation calling for this MPs resignation, even though he admitted he didn’t know what the MP had actually said! Fed. Rep. looked so prissy & mealy mouthed. Wonder how much Labour has stirred this shyte up? Petty barstewards!
Wrong, see the BBC Tweet above. The copper has told his Fed Rep that the Sun’s report is accurate.
I am not wrong Guilty. I heard the whole interview on Sky News. He then went on to whine about their perks being done away with, AND THAT is the crux of the matter.
That police rep bloke has his own agenda. He is another fat twat in the mould of Watson.
The BBC news keep stirring it up with, what if what has been alleged is true type questionning. Dumbed down BBC news reporting. One BBC news nerd didn’t even know where the east mids airport was.
Twelve months ago Ed Milliband coined the phrase “The Squeezed Middle”. The Tories responded mocking Mr Millibands expression, dismissing its proposition off hand. Today, the “Squeezed Middle” has firmly entered the political lexicon, and Mr Cameron himself now uses the phrase.
This year Ed Milliband has continually put forward the argument that the Tories were “Out of Touch”, again the retort from the PM and his motley crew has been to dismiss the suggestion as flimflam. But today has shined a light into the far reaches of the Conservative party. A haughty minister who views the police as beneath him, god only knows what he thinks of the electorate outside of his leafy well heeled constituency; and now another Tory dinosaur, Lord Young, doesn’t believe that many UK citizens are suffering any financial woe, due to recession. “Out of Touch”, no !! “Way Way Out of Touch”.
Predistribution, courtesy of Mr Milliband, has also recently entered the fray. Again Government lackeys, while raising their noses to the air dismiss the notion as gobbledygook. Watch this space – “Predistribution” will be the key argument at the centre of the next election, with Gidoen Osborne and Dave desperately trying to corner its merits as their own idea.
Take your medication and lie down in a darkened room Moussa. “Mr Miliband” aye? What a bed-wetter you are.
You are missing an apostrophe
You are missing a vitamin.
… and his so-called English teacher forgot to teach him that the past participle of “shine” is “shone” and not wot he rote.
who does the Labour party want a relationship with, and why?
A truly excellent rant, and richly deserved.
quite superb
Brilliant.
The Guardian, the BBc and the “Progressive classes” nailed.
EXCLUSIVE
I am delighted to announce that a screening of the film “Innocence Of M*slims” will be shown at Conference.
In this country free speech and gay marriage are paramount.
Dave. Really. You know insulting mooslims and k w e e r s is verboten. You are only allowed to criticise white heteros in this PC paradise.
quite simply superb
Can’t have people swearing at us can we now. Whatever next. They’ll be criticising us for killing innocent Tube passengers, throwing women on to the cell floors in Wiltshire, assisting drunken news vendors to die, etc.etc. All in the line of duty you understand. Don’t forget we are the best in the world.
They used to say (and maybe still do) that the Hong Kong police force was “the best that money can buy”. Has that accolade now descended upon the UK police farces?
Would I be arrested for calling Boris Johnson a fucking twat?
Boris himself can be notably foul-mouthed when thwarted, I am told.
BORIS U-TURN
Lock ‘em up and throw away the key!!
OK, Mitchell has had the guts to say what most of us have wanted to say to every jobsworth, security, health & safety, plodding, superannuated, time serving, clock watching, sicknote, institutionalised public sector twat.
Move on.
Mitchell is dead meat.
Halal?
Incomplete story. Did Mitchell enter Downing Street through the pavement gate? If so, what ffs was his problem? If not, plod was then inconsistent or was there an issue locally preventing big gate opening, eg religion of peace members upset about some film?
Or, was it a bike that Dave had just given him, eg the one he used to pretend to ride to Parliament on, as a present?
Answers please….
Andrew Mitchell called me a “f****g c**t” and more a few years ago when I published a blog piece gently pointing out that as a junior minister under Major he had been responsible for the Child Support Agency, that he had managed to lose a safe Tory seat and on his return to the Commons his arrogance helped to lose David Davies the leadership – Mitch (aka Slimeball to many of his colleagues in the ’80s and ’90s) called me up – “Oppenheim, you….” – you’ve got the rest!
Considering that plod are a bunch of ‘roided out goons perhaps Mitchell is in the right this time.
No wonder plod run away from muhammedans like screaming girlies when they can’t even be called a fucking pleb without going crying to the meedja.
The country is screwed boys, screwed.
Quite. Where were the male officers when the two policewomen got sent out to the fatal call when there was a known murderous nutter in the area who had been let out on bail? No doubt the fxxkers were sitting on their fat arses in the canteen, or doing tough jobs like operating speed cameras in the sunshine.
Now they are using the tragic deaths of the two women and the abuse of stupid politician to squeal about cuts to their numbers and overblown pay and pensions.
Well said.
The parallel between Islam and Nazism (drawn early on in this polemic) is well taken. Working my way through Max Hastings’s masterly ‘All Hell Broke Loose’ (history of WW2) I came across the gem that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem helped Heinrich Himmler set up an institite to study the similarities betwen Nazism and Islam. It was associated with the SS’s two divisions – 13th and 23rd – manned 90% by Balkan muslims. Nice to know who’s on your side, isn’t it?
And that was 70 years ago – they’ve had a bit of time to work on the similarities since then.
If anything, Zoinists are the modern day Nazis. What with their expansionist little cultural Heimatland for Chosen Ones and an inferior underclass. kept in concentration camps and let out to work…
+1
What sort of wanker does that anyway
Even though Mitchell is clearly a prime c*** you can bet your bottom dollar the constable in question was a right officious prick who’s clearly revelled in winding up Mitchell and knew exactly what he was doing. He’ll be a card carrying Labour man, and just full of glee being all hurt and wounded.
And probably he’s an ohmo to boot.
The police federation have jumped om this because they are in dispute with the Coalition over cuts to the police service and see it in their interests to join with the bbc to do all they can to bring down said Coalition.
Witness the fact that, among many other equally pressing matters, the bbc see fit to make their lead story that a big girls’ blouse of a copper is hurt by what is said to him whilst:-
Iran forges ahead with nuclear weapons
Israel is expected to either take the hits or take Iran out
The European economic crisis goes to further depths of idiocy.
Rampant unemployment rages across the EU
The British borrowing crisis goes on and on……….
Britian is over run with illegal immigrants….
Britian is over run with members of the EU who are unemployable and unemployed, just here for the benefits.
……………..multiply the above by 1,000
Not much of the above affects us up here.
And there in 5 min & 18 secs – we have the Zioloons biggest Christian dupe. Doing the at arms length propaganda job for the Adam Wishaupt followers.
if the story about Mitchell is correct
and if Mitchell is correct in his assessment of the Drowning St police
then the Met have got the right guys on the job
either way it leaves Mitchell the biggest fool of the piece
Fancy not let him take his bicycle into Downing Street. He was an MP after all. That copper must’ve been a right jobsworth.
I think the most important aspect is that a trade union official and a tabloid newspaper claim to have been given access to a confidential police document and have disclosed what they claim to be the comments of that document to the media. I notice that Nick Robinson just brought that up on Radio 4 news.
Isn’t this one of the things that Levensen was supposed to be stopping.