British PoliceDafne Cholet/Flickr  In the past few years, the
political scandals coming out of London's political elites have
followed a linguistic pattern — the suffix "-gate".  For
example, Hackgate — last year's huge scandal over widespread
phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper wing, News
International, eventually led to Horsegate — the scandal over
whether former New of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was given
a horse by London police, and whether British Prime Minister
David Cameron ever rode on said horse.  Of course, the Brits
didn't invent the term — it refers to the Watergate hotel — and
it appears all over the world, but it appears to have reached
new heights of absurdity in the UK.  Now there's a new scandal
which is taking the practice to its logical conclusion.  Last
Wednesday, a member of the Conservative government's cabinet,
Andrew Mitchell, reportedly swore at a police officer after he
was reprimanded for attempting to cycle through the main gate on
the home of British politics, Dow