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waylandsmithy
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Yeah, but he cycles?
Quaz
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Hitler was a tea-total, non smoking vegetarian (do I get a prize for arriving at the logical extreme of all internet discussions first?)
Mitchell seems not only to have shot his own fox, but disembowled it in front of the public and worn it's still bloody carcass as a hat. Has Cameron given him his full support yet? That's always a sign.
Interestingly, even the Daily Hate Mail ran a piece saying how many of his neighbours hate him. It comes to something when the Mail turn against a Tory MP.
Ironduke
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I don't think they normally pick model-citizen, salt-of-the-earth, kind-to-his-muvva, sit-in-the-pub-for-a-pint-and-a-chat types for Chief Whip.
Psycho bastard rottweiller seems par for the course for the enforcers of the MPs...so looks like they hit a peach in this case.
To be fair, he lost his rag with some coppers who were being jobsworths (they'd let him through the same gate several times previously that day); he'd probably had a couple with lunch, and he served up a volley of unappealing petulant abuse.
A bollocking, genuine humility, and some time spent seeing what a copper's life is really like getting puked on in a stab vest should sort him out. Put turning into a nice guy is not a realistic objective for an parliamentary whip.
Squudge
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He would have got a lot more sympathy if he'd said:
"Yes I did say it, I was bloody annoyed, and maybe I shouldn't have sworn, but I was bloody fed up" "I didn't mean 'pleb', I mean't I want some fucking respect"
If he gets the sack, it should be for a lack of integrity, not for his arrogance. He should be censured for his arrogance.
PS: didn't anyone like the idea of him trying this?
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48641#post-140206
Quaz
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ID, I know, "No More Mr Nice Guy" is the theme tune to being Whip, but he does seem to be a genuinely nasty bit of work. It sends out the message that the Tories (and possibly many of the occupants of Westminster Village of any stripe) see the rest of the population as Plebs (comes from the Roman definition of anyone not in the ruling elite).
Ironduke
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"It sends out the message that the Tories (and possibly many of the occupants of Westminster Village of any stripe) see the rest of the population as Plebs (comes from the Roman definition of anyone not in the ruling elite). "
I'd pretty much take that as a given, whichever flavour you're looking at...the altrustic MP is a thing of much rarity
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