... And here it is, folks! Today's Daffy Daily Disaster from the Kameroon Kops!

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/21/andrew-mitchell-police-tirade-labour

Ay - thang - you!

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

1. Wow

Even taking account the unreliability of the Sun as to details, it's pretty clear that Mitchell behaved pretty outrageously.

If a Labour MP did that, you'd never hear the end of their being Soft on Crime and disrespectful to the Representatives of Law and Order!

A lot of these Tories seem to be juvenile delinquents in suits.

P.S. not really the best week to choose for a public tirade against the police.

[fedsron2us]

6. Wow indeed.

Mitchell's tantrum just shows a complete lack of class. Obviously, manners no longer maketh the Tory man. I find it strange that he managed to hold down a Commission in the army since the military most definitely do not approve of officers swearing at the other ranks.

[Jeneral2885]

8. all MPs are not Gods

but did Gordon Brown keep his tantrums within his party and not to the police?

[LeftishBrit]

10. Gordon Brown did not abuse the police, or this would have been in all the tabloids...

and this is not just about someone having a problem with anger management in general; it is about someone acting as though he has the right to order public servants about and bully them - people, moreover, who are prepared to risk their lives for people like him; and apparently he called them 'plebs'. And moreover he chose a time for it when the police are reeling from a particularly horrible double murder in the course of duty. Some Labour politicians have misbehaved badly (I'm thinking more of John Prescott here than Gordon Brown) but none, as far as I remember, with quite such arrogance and sense of entitlement.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Boris Johnson: arrest people who swear at the police

2011 Tory conference.

[T_i_B]

3. I hate to say this.......

But it looks to me like Andrew Mitchell was stating basic Tory ideology. Not quite in the manner that Tories would normally do in public but there you go.

P.S. Anyone planning on buying the Nick Clegg autotune apology single on iTunes? Proceeds to Sheffield Children's Hospital.

[non sociopath skin]

4. No, 'fraid I'm not.

The Lib Dems mopped up the student vote with their pledge and it's not good enough to say "Sorry pardon" when you're caught like a deer in the headlights IMHO.

Good cause, I'm sure, but I'm not prepared to laugh it off as a bit of sub-Red Nose Day fun.

There, that's my apology and I'm sticking to it!

The Skin

[T_i_B]

14. The auto-tuning is meant to be a pisstake

Although I've never really got auto-tune satire. One of my best friends is really into "Autotune The News" on YouTube but I've never really seen the point of that.

It says something when a half-arsed weaselly apology (for making the promise in the first place rather then breaking it) become known within hours for people queueing up to ridicule it.

[Jeneral2885]

9. it's not Tory

Any MP could haveben just as disrespectful.

[LeftishBrit]

11. Maybe any MP COULD have; but most other MPs haven't been!

To be fair, neither have most Tories - but it does seem to reflect the current Tory contempt for those who work in the public sector.

[T_i_B]

13. Whilst there are arrogant tossers in all parties....

With the Tories this is a point of ideology, that the wealthy and powerful should have rights over and above the working man.

To be honest, Mitchell's alleged rant is not that all that different to the bile spewed by right wingers on local discussion forums.

What is of note here is the other stories just surfacing about Andrew Mitchell's bullying behaviour. It appears to have made him a few enemies and they are certainly using this moment to stick the knife in further.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

5. The police aren't as sympathetic to the Tories as once they were

While Tory governments of the past fought ideological enemies they were (with some exceptions) strongly-backed by Britain's police and had their pay and conditions protected in return.

How times have changed. With the organised left buried the Tories feel strong enough to attack jobs, pay and working conditions in the police force.

The police are now considered "fucking plebs" with "gold-plated pensions" just like the rest of the public sector.

[fedsron2us]

7. Sympathetic or not Mitchell should show some manners

At the end of the day the Diplomatic cops are there to protect his sorry arse and in extremis to take a bullet for him. He could at least be civil.

[Jeneral2885]

15. Technically no

If i recall the rules correctly, they'll probably let all ministers die in the line of fire but take bullets for Foreign, Home, DPM and PM.

[fedsron2us]

16. I very much doubt if there was an armed assault on Downing Street

that they would be making that kind of distinction. And the police on the main gate would be the first in the firing line. Civility costs nothing and I am old enough to remember when it was considered to be the mark of a gentleman no matter how old hat that may seem. One of the abiding problems in the UK is that there are far too many uncouth bullies in managerial roles. In fact in recent years their behaviour worse than any street corner yob

[Anarcho-Socialist]

17. Oh indeed

I was merely expressing that the Tories' contempt for public sector workers seems to include the police these days.

I read in the Guardian that his comments also included "know your fucking place" which is about as disrespectful as it gets.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Andrew Mitchell admits swearing in spat with Downing Street police

One minister put the likelihood of Mr Mitchell remaining as Government Chief Whip at no better than 60-40, and another said he should make a public televised apology.

Mr Mitchell’s own account of the words he used during Wednesday’s incident emerged for the first time last night. The Sunday Telegraph understands that the Chief Whip’s version of events is that after asking officers to open the main gates to Downing Street for his bicycle, and being refused, he said: “You guys are supposed to f***ing help us.”

A friend of Mr Mitchell said he was “100 per cent adamant” he had not used the word “plebs” or “morons”, despite contradictory reports, although he was not calling anybody a liar. “He lost it a bit,” the friend said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9560271/Andrew-Mitchell-admits-swearing-in-spat-with-Downing-Street-police.html