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From the Daily Mirror
CONTROVERSIAL police commander Brian Paddick, who takes a softly-softly approach to dope, must feel like he's on an LSD trip after opening his post...
For more than a year he has been the victim of a Daily Mail campaign which wants the senior Lambeth cop sacked. But now he has received a certificate from the same paper - honouring him with an Award of Merit for being an "unsung hero".
There is also a cheerful letter from Phil Merry, in the Daily Mail promotions department, praising Paddick's "unstinting work" and telling him to "keep up the good work".
It's worth reflecting on the Mail's earlier mentions of him.
"What kind of society," it asked, "is it whose liberal intelligentsia treats such a man as a hero?"
His position, the paper has said, "is now surely untenable - the fact that such a man could be a senior police officer shows how sick this society has become."
His "cannabis policy has brought even more hard drugs flooding in to Lambeth" and he is "sheltering behind his homosexuality to protect him from the real allegations of gross incompetence and lack of probity and judgment".
Paddick, the paper reckons, deserves "six months in jail" which is odd when their unsung heroes are people "who toil away for the benefit of their communities".
Any suggestions as to where I should hang my certificate?
:D
the power 0f u75 !!!!
wasn't there a thread a few months back asking people to nominate Brian Paddick ?
.....seems like it worked....
aaaaaaaa ------ hahahahahahahahahaha!
i never thought when i sent in that e-mail that they'd be brainless enough not to check. doh! :D congrats brian!
Congragulations!! :D
<<claps>>
I'd burn it though, to be honest. :rolleyes:
Is it readers who vote, or the staff?
Phototropic
29-08-2002, 15:24
LOL :D
The worlds gone mad :D
Nice one he he he he he he
ozrictentgal
29-08-2002, 15:25
Oh how sweet.....
I think u should hang it in the bog brian, it'll feel at home there :D
drfranni
29-08-2002, 15:29
Tee hee hee - what a result! I can't believe they actually sent one, silly billies.
Well, I would frame it and hang it up with pride - there is ALWAYS a damp patch in the toilet that needs covering
What a larf!
Originally posted by drfranni
Well, I would frame it and hang it up with pride - there is ALWAYS a damp patch in the toilet that needs covering
Hee hee! Perfect place for it in my opinion!
Congratulations though....it makes them seem all the more ludicrous!:D
tarannau
29-08-2002, 15:36
Well I just hope you've got that certificate framed above your mantelpiece Brian! Put it right up there, next to the cycling proficiency award and the porcelain butterflies :rolleyes: ;)
Good to see that the Mail still can't tell its editorial arse from its operational elbow, but equally gratifying that the nominations seem to have paid gloriously strange dividends. :cool:
Alternatively, if you fancy sending us a copy, we can always get some giant certificates blown up and positioned outside Associated Newspaper's offices as a little reminder. Silly feckers...
Originally posted by tarannau
Alternatively, if you fancy sending us a copy, we can always get some giant certificates blown up and positioned outside Associated Newspaper's offices as a little reminder. Silly feckers...
great idea! we could also send lots of copies to any journos writing any future crap .... :D
Roadkill
29-08-2002, 15:59
Hahahahahaha!
Oh the irony... :D :D
As for the certificate, try and get yourself photographed with it and get it all over the media, just to piss the Mail off.
Then cver that damp patch on the bog wall with it.
grubby local
29-08-2002, 16:25
class. i bet that felt gooood.
gx
William of Walworth
29-08-2002, 16:46
:) :cool:
LMFAO - fucking excellent Brian!
"is now surely untenable - the fact that such a man could be a senior police officer shows how sick this society has become."
This still makes me seeth. Like many I've seen how you operate Brain (and now met you afew times in person). I was VERY impressed with your attendance at the "East of Acre Lane" event and the fact that you'd thought hard about your response to the book and said that it had given you more insight into the lives of some young black guys in Brixton.
So Brixton wants a police chief who is an approachable man, a good communicator, anti-racist and responsive to locals' ideas. You, I still believe (as do many) are this. Is Brixton "society" so "sick" to want this?
Excellent! Clearly whosoever coded their database didn't think through all the options! Serves to illustrate their cynicism, if nothing else.
But don't let that detract from the accolade. Where to hang it? Pride of place on your office wall when your back in Lambeth, I'd say.;)
Mr Retro
30-08-2002, 09:23
:D :D
I got a thank you from them for nominating a few months back and hung it on the fridge. It's a good talking point when visitors come.
" Why did the fuckin' Mail send you a letter"
good conversation starter!
:D :D
Originally posted by Brian
From the Daily Mirror
Any suggestions as to where I should hang my certificate?
:D
How about round Paul Dacre's neck?
The sinister bastard!
wow, when I wrote the nomination e-mail I was convinced that I'd never hear anything of it again...when I got the 'thankyou for your nomination' letter I was mildly suprised...now I'm stunned...congratulations Brian.
Mrs Magpie
30-08-2002, 17:36
I'd love to see this certificate scanned and stuck up on www.lambeth4paddick.org
Any possibility of getting a scan of it Brian?
fat hamster
30-08-2002, 19:29
Wa-hey! Nice one! Glad to have been associated with your wonderful achievement, Brian!
http://www.longdog.org.uk/smilies3/tribe.gif
Here's hoping for equal success in your struggle for reinstatement.
zeedoodles
30-08-2002, 20:05
Nice one:)
Congratulations Brian. You must be so proud.
;)
I think you can take it for granted Dacre will be tearing out what's left of his hair when he gets back from Mauritius. Phil Merry's arse will be twitching.
I hope that Dacre reads this thread and it pisses him off.
Originally posted by Brian
[B]From the Daily Mirror
CONTROVERSIAL police commander Brian Paddick, who takes a softly-softly approach to dope, must feel like he's on an LSD trip after opening his post...
LOL :)
this story is a perfect sign how shortsighted and inaccurate media can be particulary daily mail and co. they don't know what the hell they are talking about. maby you could sell this cock up story to the sun ;)!
The Sun would not be interested. They have already been scooped (again) by the Daily Mirror.
:)
Mrs Magpie
01-09-2002, 01:37
oooh, got a link for that Wireman? Was it in Friday's?
It was in Thursday's (29/08) Scurra column, MrsM.
Peter Matisse
04-09-2002, 16:42
Congratulations Brian on being certified by the Daily Mail :D
I think you should consider having it put on your Christmas Cards !
Put a copy under your doormat, then every time you wipe your feet you can think ................................................
John Wisehammer
04-09-2002, 19:46
Excellent!
porshiebo
04-09-2002, 23:06
heeheehee how perfect :)
congrats brian
Miscellaneous
05-09-2002, 17:42
Congrats Brian!!!!!
I want to know Dacre says to this- shit-stirring one moment then sending Certificates the next!!
Yay!!!! another own goal by the D**** M***!!!
Manda
xxx
From todays Mirror:
"THERE'S more to add on the wacky (baccy) tale of police chief Brian Paddick - the senior cop who takes a softly-softly approach to dope - and the Daily Mail.
The paper has been waging a hate campaign against the Lambeth police chief but, as mentioned here last week, its promotion department has just sent him a certificate to show he was nominated in its Unsung Heroes contest.
Why wasn't he selected to go through to the next stage of judging? The answer may lie in the identity of the judges.
One was Paddick's boss, the Met police commissioner Sir John Stevens. But another judge was Mail columnist Lynda Lee-Potter, who has previously said he has diminished the force with "his idiotic posturing" and reckons he "spends his nights dancing and flirting in gay clubs and, no, I do not think that this is perfectly acceptable private behaviour for a senior police officer!" "
IntoStella
06-09-2002, 15:08
Like kea, I voted on the website, but I just thought they would disregard it as a pisstake. Fantastic! :D
As Mrs M said, any chance of scanning in the certificate and uploading it?
Caspar Hauser
06-09-2002, 15:17
"spends his nights dancing and flirting in gay clubs and, no, I do not think that this is perfectly acceptable private behaviour for a senior police officer!"
Good god what a stupid cow. :rolleyes: :mad:
Clapham Omnibus
10-09-2002, 02:37
Congrats Brian
Take out a centre page advert in the Daily Mail.
They are so mixed up they would probably print it.
;)
Originally posted by pooka
The answer may lie in the identity of the judges.
One was Paddick's boss, the Met police commissioner Sir John Stevens.
Might not associating with hacks who run vendettas against police officers be considered "conduct unbecoming"?
Peter Matisse
12-09-2002, 17:08
If Sir John Stevens is in bed with the Daily Mail it's just possible to understand how these things come to pass.
Lynda Lee-Potty is self satirical. Considering the hours that a Commander in Lambeth works I would think Brian would not have much time to spend in clubs.
And when he does why should being who he is stop him behaving like many other guys do ! Are you supposed to become a monk once you get to a certain level in the Met then.
It sounds to me as if loopy Lynda is envious of someone who has a life, as she herself has obviously has not. Still if you are a journo on that pile of junk who would touch you with a barge pole.
Do I sound bias ? :D
Didn't she play Irene in the original Forsyth Saga?:confused:
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