Are these 'plebs' purposely picking on our MPs?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....insurance-or-MOT.html

/// "He thought he had an extra week and as a circumstance, he was driving with no insurance. It was in a file on a to-do list. He forgot. ///

That is strange since he had already told the police he had no insurance.

/// "When he was pulled over, he said 'sorry I don't have
insurance'". ///

[sandyRoe]

It would be a sad if the plebian PC's let a chap off just because they thought he was one of their betters.

[Baldric]

However they came by the information I think they're doing a good job, would you like to be run into by someone with no insurance?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Cruddas was forced to defend himself earlier this month when it emerged he had received £167,000 from trade unions over the last decade ///

/// Cruddas defended the donations, saying the cash was used to remove the BNP from Barking and Dagenham. ///

So the BNP are taking bribes now it seems? :0)

[Baldric]

What's that got to do with a motoring offence?

[FredPuli43]

Don't understand the point of the heading. What indication have you that this was anything more than a standard stop of a driver for having a defective light? Do you think that the office knew in advance of the stop that the vehicle was an MP's or discovered that on doing a vehicle check? If that, how would he discover it on a vehicle check?

[tonyav]

Thought that the cops run the reg number through the DVLA site, this would then tell the cop if the car is Taxed, MOT'ed and Insured or not.

[Baldric]

You always complain that people do not show the Police enough respect,
1, Respect has to be earned.
2, Why are you using such a derogatory term as 'plebs'?

[jno]

aog is referring to the case of Andrew Mitchell, who resigned his government post after calling the police plebs. He is wondering if the police are getting their own back. Seems a fair enough question to me.

[Baldric]

No sugar jno?

[jno]

personally I think the police should be out shooting bankers and paedophiles rather than wasting their time on honest but forgetful MPs

[ladybirder]

He was stopped on 6th July. Wasn't that before the "plebs" incident?

[Baldric]

Plebgate was 19th Sept.

[LazyGun]

There can be no excuses for driving around without insurance and MOT. I do not care which side of the ideological divide you are on - Such actions are plainly illegal, and its made all the worse for the fact that it is an MP that was doing it.

I am not entirely sure what point you are trying to make with your OP - there seems little evidence that the police were deliberately targeting an MP.

MPs should get their house in order, lose the attitude and entitlement, and stop thinking that expenses are just an ever- open endless pot of money that they can draw on.

[Gromit]

The Police can easily check insurance and MOT details from the car's registration plate. They would know he had neither when he was stopped. Not many police officers would know Jon Cuddas was an obscure opposition MP, so I don't think they deliberately picked on him.

They checked with DVLA, they did not know he was an MP and he has been prosecuted and rightly so.

So no, the police are just doing their job, and your insinuation they are targetting MPs is a calumny.

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43

Oh Fred, are you that naive enough to think that my headline is anything but tongue in the cheek?

It's a humorous slant on recent happenings, can't you understand that?

Oh dear, oh dear.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// Why are you using such a derogatory term as 'plebs'? ///

Blimey not another one, if I was a left-wing type I could have come out with a load of personal insults by now.

But it is enough for me to settle with my thoughts.

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you jno, sensibility rules at last.

[FredPuli43]

aog,I assumed that , as you are a regular Daily Mail reader, you had approvingly adopted that paper's policy of writing a headline which wasn't born out by the story.

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43

Are you for real, that is plain stupid, to try and bring the Daily Mail into the argument, just because you obviously don't posses a sense of humour.

[FredPuli43]

Well, it seemed the only logical explanation, aog. My sense of humour is not up to the recent development of humour in your posts; the ones that I laughed at before turned out to be you being serious.