{"id":453,"date":"2012-12-21T17:12:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=453"},"modified":"2013-08-04T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T08:59:05","slug":"an-anarchist-perspective-on-plebgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"An Anarchist Perspective On Plebgate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had one of those most enlightening conversations<br \/>\nwhich I tend to have with members of the Met Police Diplomatic<br \/>\nProtection Group.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation took place while I was picketing outside of the Japanese Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about the long term effects of nukiller power.<\/p>\n<p>All very much of a scary set of issues.<\/p>\n<p>I also got to chat with him about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2012\/dec\/19\/plebgate-andrew-mitchell-police-conservatives\" target=\"_blank\">Plebgate <\/a>issue,<br \/>\nand\u00a0 both agreed that the whole thing is very much blown up out of all proportion.<\/p>\n<p>One point I did make to him on this issue: &#8211;<br \/>\nAs an anarchist my sympathies are very much with the police.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always found members of the Met Police Diplomatic<br \/>\nProtection group to be very polite to me,<br \/>\nand why should they be any different while on duty at Downing Street?<\/p>\n<p>Yet here is the bottom line: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Plebgate revolves around the conduct of a tory politician,<br \/>\n&amp;<br \/>\nwho\u2019s ever going to believe the word of\u00a0 any former Conservative chief whip?<\/p>\n<p>I of course think that there is nothing wrong with being called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/pleb\" target=\"_blank\"> a pleb<\/a>,\u00a0 or one of the people,\u00a0 but elitist politicians do have a tendency to forget the people whom they are supposed to be<br \/>\nrepresenting.<\/p>\n<p>Enough said for now &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had one of those most enlightening conversations which I tend to have with members of the Met Police Diplomatic Protection Group. The conversation took place while I was picketing outside of the Japanese Embassy. We talked about the long term effects of nukiller power. All very much of a scary set of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Anarchist Perspective On Plebgate.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}