Plebgate: Andrew Michell’s Comments Whip Up A Storm

Comments attributed to the Government’s Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, by a policeman that ’guards’ the gate leading to Downing Street have given the lamestream media, Opposition government officials and the police something to talk about.

God knows there isn’t anything else of note to discuss.

According to a leaked police report, obtained by The Sun, Mitchell said:

"Best you learn your f****** place. You don’t run this f****** Government. You’re f****** plebs."

For the plebs out there, the missing characters are "ucking".

So who would have leaked the official report? The police? Say it’s not so. Tell me that the police would never break the law by providing a member of the media access to a document in violation of the Data Protection Act.

If it doesn’t bother you that the police would do that perhaps you will consider that Andrew Mitchell is actually The RT Honourable Andrew Mitchell, MP and as such, he’s technically correct in calling the cop that guards the gate to Downing Street a pleb. In fact, that cop or nealy any cop with the exception of the ones with "Sir" in front of their names, is a pleb by comparison to any member of Parliament.

Recently London 2012 saw many UK citizens receive Gold medals (a tremendous achievement by anyone’s standard), but the plebeians (general public) were very quick to encourage the government to dole out special Honours to those athletes who had already been awarded Olympic medals (as though the medals were not sufficient to demonstrate their status).

I don’t make up the rules, but unless this cop’s Title is higher than Mitchell’s the MP has it spot on. We live in a society in the United Kingdom that literally thrives on appointment and title and position in life.

The cops are plebs; so are we all. If that insults their sensitivities then they need to grow a thicker skin or get themselves a better Title.

pleb - Short for plebeians, derived from the period of the Ancient Romans. The plebeians were the general body of Roman citizens and those who were privileged were labeled patricians. Nowadays, a pleb is one associated with those in the lower class. They often lack integrity (like someone who leaks a police report) and sophistication, while many people who consider themselves modern-day patricians often lookdown and mock them.

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