THE TALE of the Tory Chief Whip allegedly calling a police officer a pleb has provoked much discussion.
THE TALE of the Tory Chief Whip allegedly calling a police officer a pleb has provoked much discussion.
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Ken Smith
A reader in a Knightsbridge pub yesterday overheard a woman haughtily ask: "But was the officer a pleb? No-one has cleared this up for me."
Back in Scotland, retired polis Alan Barlow recalls: "My old sergeant in Paisley, being an ex-Allan Glen's pupil, would reply to those who dared to mock him, that they were nothing but 'unprincipled mountebanks'."
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THE TALE of the Tory Chief Whip allegedly calling a police officer a pleb has provoked much discussion.
A reader in a Knightsbridge pub yesterday overheard a woman haughtily ask: "But was the officer a pleb? No-one has cleared this up for me."
Back in Scotland, retired polis Alan Barlow recalls: "My old sergeant in Paisley, being an ex-Allan Glen's pupil, would reply to those who dared to mock him, that they were nothing but 'unprincipled mountebanks'."
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