Is This Mp The Right Person To Conduct A Select Committee Inquiry On Police Officers?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2013-10-23/keith-vaz-eager-to-establish-the-facts-about-plebgate/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Vaz

[Zeuhl]

Can we please use the word 'imply' if that is what we mean...

all this erroneous 'inferring' is just confusing

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// You seem to have a bit of an obsession with Mr. Vaz. ///

Not so, in your frantic search of examples you failed to notice that the name Keith Vaz was mentioned in the various press reports, so one could say that the press rather than I has a bit of an obsession with Mr Vaz MP Chairman of the Home Affairs select committee.

[Gromit]

Imp lied?

[Gromit]

AOG

You linked to those press reports. On many occassions. Of course you are perfectly entitled to do so, but it does show a pattern to your posting behaviour. That you consistantly post against Vaz.

[Zeuhl]

/Imp lied? /

Gromit

are you calling aog an imp?

///Imps were often mischievous rather than evil or harmful.

Imps were often portrayed as lonely little creatures, always in search of human attention./// (wiki)

:-)

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// You linked to those press reports. On many occassions. Of course you are perfectly entitled to do so, but it does show a pattern to your posting behaviour. That you consistantly post against Vaz. ///

By your unbalanced reasoning then one could say for example, that a person consistently posts against David Cameron, simply because one posted news issues regarding politics, and Mr Cameron's name happened to be mentioned.

By the way you spelt consistently and occasions wrong, couldn't care less myself, but there are some on AB who spot these errors and I just thought I would point out to them, that they missed these two.

[AB Editor]

No, because he's the wrong person to be in parliament full stop.

[Zeuhl]

/there are some on AB who spot these errors and I just thought I would point out to them, that they missed these two/

handbag a'swingin' lol

[jomifl]

I don't think he is protecting his own interests here so I expect he will go for the throat. I hope his rear lights are working properly :o)

[AB Editor]

Just to add... that's a non-editorial opinion!

[Gromit]

AOG
I have posted many times on Cameron. I don't deny it. It would be stupid to pretend I haven't because the posts are there for all to see. As are all your many Keith Vaz posts.
I am not a fan of Vaz either.

[LazyGun]

I seem to remember more than a few hints of controversy in his past, and persistent murmurs over business relationships, favouritism, a cavalier attitude towards MP expenses and all the rest of it. I would not like to have him as my constituency MP :)

Apart from that though, in his role as Chair of this particular select committee I think he does a good job - calm but forensic in his questioning, which is what is needed.

[LazyGun]

I should add- Quite apart from his support for the nonsense that is Homeopathy. He is Roman Catholic too, apparently; Was not aware of that. And I had forgotten his role in calling for a ban of Rushdies "Satanic Verses".

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// I have posted many times on Cameron. I don't deny it. It would be stupid to pretend I haven't because the posts are there for all to see. As are all your many Keith Vaz posts.
I am not a fan of Vaz either. ///

No, do you still fail to see whereas your posts are targeted specifically towards Cameron, whereas mine happen to include Keith Vaz in the particular news story that I have posted, and not a direct criticism of that person.

[anotheoldgit]

LazyGun

/// Apart from that though, in his role as Chair of this particular select committee I think he does a good job ///

So with his record of past confrontations with the police, you still think he is impartial enough to chair an inquiry on police officers?

/// In 2002, Vaz was suspended from the House of Commons for one month after a Committee on Standards and Privileges inquiry found that he had made false allegations against Eileen Eggington, a former policewoman. The committee concluded that "Mr Vaz recklessly made a damaging allegation against Miss Eggington to the Commissioner, which was not true, and which could have intimidated Miss Eggington or undermined her credibility".///

[LazyGun]

@AoG I do, yes. Besides which, if any suggestion of bias creeps in, I am sure other members of the select committee will pipe up.

[LazyGun]

Incidentally, did you read on to see why he allegedly picked on Mrs Eggington? Hint: It was not because she was a former cop.

[FredPuli43]

Indeed, that she was a former cop has no relevance, but the press like such detail. It suggests something to the unthinking, just as the price of the person's parent's house does; another irrelevancy for a purpose.

[Peter Pedant]

I have to say I found HASC compulsive viewing.

I found the Police Fedz account of the Midlands meeting unconvincing.
I can understand their surprise at finding that the meeting had been lawfully recorded (RIPA rules are different) - but in view of that I could not understand why 'they stuck by their story' when it was onviously untrue and everyone was watching.