Well Allan Mitchell has gone and I don't much care as anyone who believes, as he professed to do, that spending more money on overseas aid whilst ruthlessly cutting the defence budget was a good thing is a very strange sort of Tory in my book.
But did he really call a policeman a 'fucking pleb.' Well I don't believe he did what I think he actually called him was a 'fucking Plod.' Now either the said policeman misheard or someone decided that it would in infinitely more damaging to the Chief Whip if the word 'plod' was changed to 'pleb.
Why is it more likely that Mitchell called the policeman a 'plod' simply because that is the generic name for uniformed policemen in the services and among plain clothes policeman. In fact if he had held his hand up and admitted calling the copper a 'fucking plod' the Police Federation would not have dared open their mouth as to condemn him as to do would have been to condemn the hole of CID.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Followers
About Me
- Francis Fulford
- Francis Fulford is a writer, broadcaster and television personality. He lives at Great Fulford, a beautiful country estate in Devon that has been the home of the Fulford family since around 1190.
Posts
Search This Blog
© Francis Fulford's Blog 2010, All Rights Reserved. For the Great Fulford website please click here.
Whatever he called the policeman, it was offensive as is "plod". I know it is fashionabe to knock the police force, but unless we can improve their morale, which is rock bottom, we are not doing ourselves any favours. Of course there are problems, but we need to sort them, not just start kicking out.
ReplyDelete