Police use CS spray to halt Commons fight
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Police used CS spray to break up a scuffle in the Houses of Parliament last night, arresting a man who was a guest at a drinks reception hosted by Conservative Party chairman Eric Pickles.
An argument was believed to have broken out at the party and was continued in the corridor behind the Speaker's Chair, yards from the Commons Chamber where MPs were holding a debate on Africa, at 9.15pm.
One man became aggressive when the police intervened and was subdued with CS spray. An officer sustained minor injuries. The arrested man was last night in custody in a central London police station. Two men and a woman were believed to have been involved, all of them attending the reception.
A source said: "They were journalists who were present at the reception, but they have no link to the Conservative Party."
Those involved were believed to have been in a group without Westminster security passes who were being escorted through the palace by Tory party officials, slipping away into the area behind the Speaker's Chair. where the police became involved.
Mr Pickles was holding the event in the shadow Cabinet Room in the Palace of Westminster.
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Like the, "A source said" in the above story.
No unattributed quotes should EVER be published in any newspaper.
Either someone stands up to be counted of they just sit down and shut up.
This will cut out THE RISK of many stories being just 'made up' plain lies.
Either being made up by the reporters, their editors and whoever pulls their strings.
Or the reporters getting duped and therefore subsequently us the public getting duped, being fed a pack of lies from these faceless lying sources, (Mostly faceless political ones).
Having this "no revieling of sources" that the Newspaper World clings onto so desperately is quite similar to the "patient- doctor" confedentiality, in one LOWLEY respect only.
When ever these useless failed Bankers and Building society Cheif Executives want a way out of their embarising predicament, that of TOTALLY RUINING the company they speil out tale of woe about some ficticious heart problem or such.
Are we the public, or even all the British journo's going to find out who their doctor is and go speeding round to this mans doctors house and quiz him about his patients health??.
No.
The doctor would "clam up" whatever the situation, the doctor would be unable to say anything even if it was a complete pack of lies, except maybe to his patient, and then the lying
B ank & B uilding society Chief shyster executive shyster would just get another doctor.
I believe a recent case of this happened barely 12 months ago.
This is the journalistic world of newspaper reporting confidentiality in action.
Unnatributed reports can not be checked out by the public, they can not be relied upon to be the truth.
And should never be reported.
No newspaper reported can ever be trusted.
And therefore no Newspaper either.
(But we desperately want to!, to give us some stability and comfort in out lives, hence we get taken advantage of, and taken for a ride by some Daily newspapers, who like their Political paymasters, never know when to stop lying!)
[This is in no way a comment directed solely upon the above individual newstory].
It is about ALL newstories in general.
We wouldn't get to hear about many newstories then!.
Yea, and we wouldn't get fed the complete pack of lies either!!.
And anyway, the ones we do hear now from faceless sources are steeped in MANIPULATION right from the start.
Faceless manipulation that is!!.