Hell has officially frozen over again ...

Labour list has the following article up suggesting that the left should support Andrew Mitchell ..

http://labourlist.org/2013/10/andrew-mitchell-has-been-wronged-and-the-labour-movement-should-defend-him/

Makes a change from a year ago when the Labour party had a website up (since, as Lib/Dem blogger Stephen Tall pointed out yesterday, since taken down) saying "Who do you believe - Tory MP Andrew Mitchell or the police?"

The irony is that it tends to be Conservatives who support the police - and that is certainly where I would be more comfortable. Several of my friends are serving or retired police officers, and I am convinced that most police officers are dedicated public servants who are committed to justice.

We won't ever know for certain exactly what happened between Mitchell and the Downing street police officers. We have his own account, which is consistent with, but not absolutely proven by, the CCTV footage, and we have the leaked alleged "police log" published in The Sun newspaper which is definately a pack of  lies as it is not consistent with that footage. Of course, that doesn't prove that the police were lying - it could be the Sun.

Equally troubling is the way the Police Federation went out of their way to attack Mitchell - and everyone who has seen the Crick documentary on channel four knows that three officials of the West Midlands branch of the Federation behaved in a manner well short of the standard the public is entitled to expect of police officers.

I am not one of those who are demanding that Mitchell return to the cabinet tomorrow - what he admits he said and apologised for saying was not appropriate for a cabinet minister.

Nevertheless the point remains a concern. Even though I remain convinced that the vast majority of police officers, especially the rank and file bobbies, are completely honest, Hillsborough and one or two other things which have come out recently demonstrate that there are a few who are not.

And if that minority of rogue police officers can get away with doing what they did to Andrew Mitchell to a cabinet minister, what can they do to anyone else?

Comments

Jim said…
I think hell will freeze over the day people realise the size of the problem of debt.

Its currently about £1.2 trillion. Its hard to think in terms of trillions though, its not a natural thing for humans to do.

Lets put it like this, If i were one of the 3 kings that visited jesus christ on his birthday, and instead of gold i gave him £1 trillion, what have i done? - well jesus christ could have spent £1 million each and every day, since he was born, and he still now, over 2000 years later would have only spent 3/4 of it.

I know i keep going Off subject, but to be honest I think government debt is major subject of discussion
Jim said…
to put it another way, if i was in business starting today (18 oct 2013) and lost £1 million each and every day, not only would i be the worst business man in history, but i would not have lost £1 trillion until 15th sept 4751.

Now the successive busness men of the government have done much worse than even my disastrous business.

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