I particularly like the casting of Colin Firth. Genius.
This on a day when the following is, apparently, an ordinary revelation:
"Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his wife accepted 20 nights on full board at luxury health spa Champneys as he was recuperating from hospital treatment earlier this year. Stephenson says he was unaware that the Champneys publicist was Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive arrested last Thursday".Do these people have no shame, let alone a basic functioning ethical framework? Who in their right mind, in his position, would accept a free 20 day full-board holiday in a luxury health spa, as a "gift"? He has to resign now, doesn't he?
The only way this scandal could get any worse is if it turns out a judge is involved. I can't think of any way for them to have stooped any lower.
Sir Paul Stephenson,
former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
(the most senior police officer in the UK).
PS: Ha! He's resigned. A few pithy comments from me and, within 5 hours, he's gone. That is the mighty power of Adventures in Beige!
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The trains are fine, very academic (when do you have your viva?) – the architecture is great, I am planning a visit to north Norfolk - the photography excellent – the men, mainly, lovely – but the best bits are your comments they brighten up the dullest day – thehandface are a revelation – thank you!
Probably very partisan of me but I was ammuassed by Rowan Atkinson as Ed Milliband. A politician who has undergone a truely Damascene conversion in his attitude to Rupert Murdoch.
I suspect that the Met and, to a lesser extent, other UK police forces have reached a level of corruption (not to say, incompetence) that was seen in the Hong Kong police in the 1960s. That led in HK to the formation of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) which did sterling work in cleaning up a lot of the filth - though even the ICAC has had its bad hats.
What the UK now needs is something like the ICAC, completely divorced from the police, though I suspect it will be very difficult to find enough competent and honest people to staff it.
Let us also not forget that News International is not the news outfit involved.
Indeed!! How mighty is your sword - and also how righteously wielded!!! Well done Sir!!!
Never doubted it!
Never!
He looks like a bit of a poof too. Is that still a crime in the UK?
:-0
ps the vid is brilliant!! Ta.
"thehandface are a revelation" - I'm sorry, I have no idea what that means. I'm probably being thick.
Endemic police corruption? Possibly, although it's notable that the plods in Devon & Cornwall were doggedly pursuing News Int. on their patch, only to have a judge throw out their entire case. I suspect there are some unglamorous provincial forces which remain relatively honest.
And I also thought Rowan Atkinson hit the nail. Our senior politicians are, for the most part, a deeply unimpressive lot.
"thehandface are a revelation" they are the satirists who made Hackgate: The Movie – their other work is very funny – see
http://youtu.be/pyXpNeAFGwg
and several others :)
Ah! Thanks for clarification. Yes, I'm loving them.
all hail the power of Adventures in Beige. huzzah!
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