This Policeman Isn’t Fat!
This policeman, who the Mail claims is at the heart of the Plebgate affair, was virtually told he was fat on Radio 5 this morning in the Double Take program.
If I were to be his size, I’d consider myself obese. No wonder he has to carry a gun in his job. He wouldn’t be able to run after the average criminal. Even in my state, I might even be able to outrun him over a hundred metres.
David Mellor On Plebgate
There was an interesting non-meeting of minds on Double Take this morning, when David Mellor and a representative of the Police Federation clashed. Perhaps the most interesting part was when Ken Macdonald, a former DPP and probably not a Conservative supporter, was quoted as saying that the Police were the last unreformed public service.
The Police needs to sort itself out and top of the list are these questions of mine.
1. Why do the Police not have to go through annual medicals to see that they are fit for the job?
2. Why are the Police involved in incidents such as shootings, not cross-examined by lawyers for others involved?
3. Why do we have so many ranks? Especially, as various reports have recommended simplification?
4. Why do Police officers always seem to be rushing around in cars, making a lot of noise?
5. Why in Lancashire, when I ask directions of an officer, they inevitably say, they are not from round these parts.
6. Why when any reform is suggested, do the Police always say no?
I could add a lot more, but I don’t want to spend time, assembling the evidence. Or is it making the evidence up?
On the subject of Plebgate, I asked a human rights lawyer, who is not a supporter of any political party, what they thought about the affair. They just shrugged their shoulders and indicated these sort of cases go on all the time.
Were The Pigs Telling Porkies?
In the case of Plebgate, it certainly seems that some are being economical with the truth, just as the police were after Hillsborough.
We will probably never learn the truth about this. I just suspect that both parties might have been tired after a hard day and something said out of turn by one side just escalated.
I’m lucky in that I’ve never had a confrontation with the police and have only been threatened with arrest once. That was incidentally, when I was about eighteen and I was hitching home with a bag with my clothes in it. I was having bad luck with lifts and was walking through Elstree about two in the morning. A beat officer wanted to check my bag and initially I said no. Only when I was threatened with arrest did he get a look at the dirty washing, I was taking home to my mother.
The Anonymous Widower 