As usual completely missing the point about what these scumbags think of us, we all know what the score was in our younger days, times have changed even i know that, doubt if yeh will ever grasp that fact.
Andrew Mitchell
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Were those the younger days of the workhouse, when 8 year old chimney sweeps knew their place, when the army was called in to quell the 'plebs' of Peterloo?
You're sentiments are correct...Most of us have moved on....unfortunately morons like Mitchell haven't, they still think that they are superior because of an accident of birth!
As usual completely missing the point about what these scumbags think of us, we all know what the score was in our younger days, times have changed even i know that, doubt if yeh will ever grasp that fact.
I don't think my glasses are as red tinted as yours and never will be.
Nah yeh got yours off Ray Charles.I don't think my glasses are as red tinted as yours and never will be.
Iv'e been called a lot worse!!
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1. common, working-class, lower-class, proletarian, ignoble, lowborn a man who rose to greatness but never forgot his plebeian past
common upper-class, aristocratic, high-class, patrician, highborn
2. uncultivated, mean, low, base, coarse, vulgar, unrefined, non-U (Brit. informal) He had a cockney accent and an alarmingly plebeian manner.
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Because, strange as it might seem, it is not a requirement of law that we be polite to a policeman.
With reference to number two.........doesn't this outburst qualify him for for the name 'pleb' then......it was certainly uncultured to rant on at the policeman(who was only doing his job) in such a manner.
It would be good if the politicians of this country would do their job with such diligence - maybe we would have some kind of chance of rising out of the mire that they created for us 'plebs'.
Wrong. Using four letter words towards a policeman is a public order offence and I have seen people arrested for it.
Theres a lad in the Mirror this morning from Gorton,who got a 16 week sentence fer a first offence, which was "Swearing At A Policeman" twas during the riots n yeh he looked a lout, but that aint the issue, its the same offence as what NO CHARGE has been brought against Mitchell, if ever there is proof that its us n them then that is it!
Really! You mean you can't swear at coppers over there? Country's going to the dogs
Really! You mean you can't swear at coppers over there? Country's going to the dogs
Nobody appears to be bothered about the swearing It's the descriptive word that's appears to be causing the most problems.One mans word against another.
Or should I have said Pleblem?
OK pleb may be a four letter word but it's not that sort of four letter word. Very mild in my opinion, even a bit of joke.
I'm sure lots of us might be tempted to use such words if we had had a hard day or were under stress.
I do think this whole thing has been blown up out of proportion and is distracting from the everyday business that should be concentrated upon.
Perhaps if some people stopped slagging off MPs and had a go at their job things might be a bit different.
The industrial four-letter words were quoted by Gynn in post 1.
It's the other four letter words he's alleged to have uttered that (if he has uttered them) should've got him arrested for a public order offence. As for the p-word, I can honestly say it's never passed my lips, but then again, I'm not a toffee-nosed, upper class hooray henry who looks down upon the lower orders as many members of this government do.
As for having a go at Andrew Mitchell's job, let's see, what was his last position? Oh yes, Minister for Overseas Development, where he oversaw a 37% rise in the overseas aid budget (whilst people in this country were suffering from government cuts) and lavished our money on the likes of India (which can afford a space programme), China and Saudi Arabia. Yep, he did a great job there!
I have to own up that we at AGS called first-formers plebs.
The word he is alleged to have used before pleb is far from mild yet people like you omit to mention that. cos i cannot think for 1 min that yeh aint read or seen the fact.
To be honest I try and stay away from the news as much as possible so no I was not fully aware of anything else that was said. But there has been so much attention given to the p-word that I couldn't avoid hearing about that.
I'm talking about the job of constituency MP not being a minister or anything like that. Would you want to do it? cos I'm sure I wouldn't. And being a minister etc is more about government policy than personal preference.