Chris Huhne's Big Day....In Court

[SRE]

8 months for Huhne - same for ex wife Pryce

 

[Octopus]

8 months for Huhne

He really should have an enormous fine, given the costs for this case!

 

[MDJ]

Hope he serves all the 8 months too and hope it teaches these politicians a lessen as well

 

[TedM]

I believe the Crown Prosecution Service are going to try to recover some of their costs on the basis that he left it up to the last possible minute before pleading guilty.

 

[Vegelen]

Legal costs should be recovered from his MP's pension.

 

[Earthstore]

Should he still be entitled to an MP's pension?

 

[Essexboy7]

That bloke is one horrible arrogant scumbag i hope he serves every minute of it

 

[Octopus]

To think he came VERY close to beating Nick Clegg to be the leader of the Liberals

 

[Vegelen]

Chris Huhne wasn't an unlucky punter that exceeded 9 points having driven safely most of his life.
He was an arrogant man who believed he was cleverer than everyone else and could do what he wanted regardless.
After his wife lied for him to prevent him loosing his license, he eventually lost it caught driving talking on a mobile phone.
People like that are ticking time bombs that will hurt someone sooner or later.
Those that seek to undermine UK Road Traffic Laws, deceiving courts deserve everything they get.

 

[Gavin A]

To think he came VERY close to beating Nick Clegg to be the leader of the Liberals

stupid thing is, despite all this I still reckon he'd have been better than clegg. At least he only lied about speeding points, whereas Clegg lied about tuition fees, economic policy, civil liberties, not being a tory etc. stuff that's resulted in the recession turning into a depression, students ending up paying £30k to go to university, and now apparently secret courts where they don't even need to tell you what the evidence is against you, so you can't defend yourself properly. I know which lies I think were worst.

 

[Silly Sausage]

He'll serve a maximum of 4 months in some ----- category C or D open prison.
From whence he'll probably get let out to work somewhere and get home visits!

I'd send the little so and so to the Cat A wing of Strangeways for a few years.

 

[whinmoor]

I'd lock him up with his ex-missus. They seem to get on really well together :1eye:

 

[Octopus]

stupid thing is, despite all this I still reckon he'd have been better than clegg. At least he only lied about speeding points, whereas Clegg lied about tuition fees, economic policy, civil liberties, not being a tory etc. stuff that's resulted in the recession turning into a depression, students ending up paying £30k to go to university, and now apparently secret courts where they don't even need to tell you what the evidence is against you, so you can't defend yourself properly. I know which lies I think were worst.

And Labour would have done what exactly. There's no difference between the 3 parties today. They all want power so they have to cling on to the middle ground.

What UK plc needs is a centerist party, comprised by people who have had to work for a living for at least 20 years, not these 30 something career politicians who've done nothing.

 

[Gavin A]

And Labour would have done what exactly. There's no difference between the 3 parties today. They all want power so they have to cling on to the middle ground.

What UK plc needs is a centerist party, comprised by people who have had to work for a living for at least 20 years, not these 30 something career politicians who've done nothing.

There's not a vast amount of difference between the 3 parties, but that's part of the point - there was a difference between them at the election, it just turned out that the Lib Dems were quite happy to lie through their teeth about several key points of their manifesto, which it turned out the leadership never intended to support anyway.

As for the difference - even the Office of Budget Responsibility has come out and basically said that we'd have had at least an extra 1.4% growth without the tory / lib dem austerity cuts, but I'm pretty sure it'd have been a lot more than that because of the way the tories have talked down the economy, damaging consumer and business confidence in the process. And that would have translated into a lot less people on the dole, less businesses struggling etc.


eta but I fully agree with your second point. Personally I don't think anyone should be allowed into parliament without having had a career outside politics for at least 10 years.

 

[telectrix]

at least it can't be worse than mein fuhrer blair and his fat controller hermann brown.