Wednesday 30 October 2013

Be Careful What You Wish For

The attempt to transform Plebgate into Plodgate is about softening up the electorate for privatisation, when police powers would be transferred to G4S and Serco.

Don't fall for it.

Remember that the only criminal offence in this whole business was committed when Andrew Mitchell swore at a policeman, for which anyone else would have been arrested, and for which Mitchell might yet be.

Trade union reps doing what trade union reps sometimes have to do in order to protect public services, and in this case in order to prevent the transfer of police powers to G4S and Serco, may not be pretty, and they certainly ought not to allow themselves to be caught doing it.

But it is not against the law.

Whereas swearing at a policeman is.

3 comments:

  1. There are many issues at play, however, officers making up a story in order to smear ANYONE is a serious issue also. Whether Mitchell or anyone else, this should not happen.

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  2. Using a swearword in a sentence to a policeman is not in the slightest illegal.

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  3. Enough people are arrested for it. Rarely, if ever, brought to court. But thousands of nights in the cells each week.

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