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How calling someone a pleb ends up as a libel case is totally beyond me?????????????????????????????
Its not even a particularly an offensive word, people have called me plebs(probably deservedly) I have called them plebs....any sensible human being forgets about it 5 mins it just means someone been has the bit of an idiot which we all are at times We have become a society who are obsessed with the trivial ![]() |
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The problem is the person doing the name calling just so happens to be someone who needs the votes of so-called plebs.
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It is a particularly offensive word but I think the whole case is absurd. The equivalent been said to me and from me plenty of times on here.
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He should have called him a ****, and be done with it, the thick copper would have understood that.
A politician ..world leaders in Lying. A policeman ..world leaders in Lying... ![]() |
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According to the judge the copper was
"not the sort of man who would have had the wit, imagination or inclination to invent on the spur of the moment an account of what a senior politician had said to him in temper" So he is too thick to have made it up so it is 'probably' true. What a mess. |
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Mitchell was a fool for going to court.
He should know that courts are like lotteries. The judge surmised that he had used the word and said the PC was too thick to have made it up, so he says Mitchell is a liar. Giving his ruling, Mr Justice Mitting said: "For the reasons given I am satisfied at least on the balance of probabilities that Mr Mitchell did speak the words alleged or something so close to them as to amount to the same including the politically toxic word pleb." ''satisfied at least on the balance of probabilities'' What kind of evidence is that? |
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near enough
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If you haven't gat a water tight case you shouldn't go to court.
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Mitchell is an utter fool.
Pretty much everybody was in agreement that he was fitted up by plod. He was the victor in the court of public opinion but yet he decides to go to a court of law... ![]() |
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Stig Abell, managing editor of the Sun, also welcomed the verdict, hailing it as "a vindication for the Sun and its journalists - it is a victory for all journalism".
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fancied an easy pay out from police ( funded by me and you, a.k.ka the real plebs)
quite a decent verdict imo, balance of probabilities must have been a tough call for the judge given the two sides at issue |
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Judiciary and cops are all in the Freemasons.....QED
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Wasn't there an earlier claim of taped evidence which showed the police were lying ?
At least for everyone who has been fitted up by police lies there is some consolation in it happening to a leading politician if that is what has happened. Personally I am on the side of the police ... Cameron was quick to dismiss Mitchell. |
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Fortunes are lost all the time by people betting on the balance of probabilities.
He might just as well have tossed a coin and asked Mitchell to call heads or tails. |
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Agreed.
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How can the legal costs amount to £3 million???
He either said it or he didnt. Why has it taken 2 years to achieve a verdict?? Did the barristers get together and have a sweepstake on how long they could keep it going! |
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Just like playing poker but with a pack of lawyers instead of cards.
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I refer the honourable gentlemen to Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
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Waste of money, should never have got to the courts.
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He must love that bike.
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I think it's been compacted.
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He must have borrowed Jonathon Aitken's Sword of Truth
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bad misjudgement from Mitchell clearly thought after the copper was convicted the wind was in his sails. Wrong!
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Thin and Crispy
He must have borrowed Jonathon Aitken's Sword of Truth I'd forgot all about that. He was so serious as well the lying turd. ![]() www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR51fB8JNhI |
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Three million for a minor tantrum, how pleasing.
The whole episode probably could have been avoided given a little humility. |
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@curious-cat -- some (other) police were lying (making out they were tourists who'd been shocked, for instance) but not, it appears, the ones most centrally involved.
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the legal system has decided that the chances mitchel called them plebs is between 50% and 99%
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Foinavon
Three million for a minor tantrum, how pleasing. The whole episode probably could have been avoided given a little humility. Alas we are talking about an MP, and a Tory to boot, He was winning the "public sympathy vote" but his head was so far up his own arris, arrogance got the better of him. Bankruptcy (get out card) calling ? |
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Alas we are talking about an MP, and a Tory to boot, He was winning the "public sympathy vote" but his head was so far up his own arris, arrogance got the better of him. Bankruptcy (get out card) calling ?
No way. He should be able to claim this through his expenses. |
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AKA,
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If you ever want proof that the legal parasites are totally out of control this is it.
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I agree Dotchinite, but don't you think someone ELECTED to run the country would know this.
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He's never had my sympathy boxingthefox, glad he's been brought down a peg or two.
I ran a quick search on the net and see that his net worth is estimated at 2.2 million so may need his mates to chip in a few quid for him. |
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Oh I do hope it ruins the little ****.
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Report• Quote • Block User Dr Crippen • November 27, 2014 6:27 PM GMT
Fortunes are lost all the time by people betting on the balance of probabilities. He might just as well have tossed a coin and asked Mitchell to call heads or tails. Well that's what happens when you sell your soul to monetarism, you get generations of opportunistic spivvy speculators who chance their arm and input nowt. Could say it's like backing the wrong horse. |
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Whole thing astonishingly daft if you ask me.
If Mitchell swore at the copper and called him an pleb why didn't the copper just say "%*#+ you, ya ponce." Or something like that as the bloke cycled off? End of story really. |
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* a pleb
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What do you mean after he's out of earshot?
Maybe doff a cap to the master too and thank him for his grace upon us. This tells a story, one of what the mindset is of the supposed ruling classes towards the very ppl kept in line while being fed feel good ethereal notions like 'democracy' that doesn't even exist in the real world. |