Chief Whip Mitchell falls on his sword and resigns
GOVERNMENT chief whip Andrew Mitchell fell on his sword last night after admitting the row over his confrontation with Downing Street police made his position untenable.
After weeks of criticism, jibes and speculation over his future, Mr Mitchell said it was not fair to put his colleagues and family through such "damaging" stories any longer.
He insisted in a letter to the Prime Minister that he had not referred to an officer on the gate in Downing Street as either a "pleb" or a "moron" but acknowledged delivering, after being told he could not ride his bike through the main gates, the parting line: "I thought you guys were supposed to f****** help us."
Mr Mitchell has desperately clung to his position amid a mounting clamour over the past month for him to go. He did not attend last week's Conservative Party conference in Birmingham after admitting that his presence would be a distraction.
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He sought – and failed – to win over Police Federation members by meeting them and trying to explain his actions. Labour leader Ed Miliband maintained the pressure when MPs returned to Westminster this week, calling him "toast" during Prime Minister's Questions.
Mr Mitchell's fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on.
In his resignation later to Mr Cameron last night, Mr Mitchell said: "Over the last two days it has become clear to me that whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter I will not be able to fulfil my duties as we both would wish. Nor is it fair to continue to put my family and colleagues through this upsetting and damaging publicity."
Comments
by CharlieDodd
Monday, October 22 2012, 3:01AM
“..'Chief Whip Mitchell falls on his sword and resigns'..
Sounds painful”
by HermesThelema
Monday, October 22 2012, 1:27AM
“In other words, at a time in history when in the economic mind the current leadership has bankrupted democratic belief to the brink of civil war; we have seen how the background mechanics of Government has paraded David Cameron as the puppet to make a series of unpopular cuts and policy changes, which in the manner of Government any changes made must neither represent the needs of the Prime Minister personally nor the needs of any above another nor attract criticism unduly to the man representative of the changes; Chief Whip Mitchell falls on his sword and resigns”
by HermesThelema
Monday, October 22 2012, 12:59AM
“...and by doing so reveals how the current Government line is to address the public in a manner and mannerism which compliments in common language and insults in private.
Although opinion in the House is divided across a common boundary in Law, as all ladies and gentleman are required to walk to The Cottage without exception save rule, we can see how this man was set as an example, as he failed to abide to his oath to protect the children by raising an obscenity in public which was not safe for children's ears and thus projected a poor imagine of Parliament in the all-seeing public eye. As classless as childhood is, and as priceless as is experience, in adulthood one can separate the man from the position and the position from criticism, yet a poorly raised animal will always lower to instinct without appropriate training or discipline [You can take out Freemasonry and Scientology if you want yet don't expect any help from dust and there's certainly no substitute for experience].”