Dodgy expenses referred to the CPS

Nicholas

Do try and keep up. This referral was reported by Guido last week. Nothing will come of it though. Jack Straw, Baroness Scotland and the Common Purpose clowns in CPS and the Met will decide prosecution is not in the public interest. That, or just the Tory will be prosecuted.

Cuffleyburgers

Only 4?

Here's a riddle which describes the state of justice in Brown's Britain...

Two people. Person one finds a sawn-off shotgun in his garden, and hands it in to the police. Person two holds a high rank in the public service and exploits the generous expenses to defraud the tax-payer to the tune of 100,000 pounds, when caught admits to having made a mistake.

Which of these two characters is now facing 5 years in gaol?

Vulture

Only four? It seems to me that around half of all MPs - and lots of Lords - committed fraud. This poisoned Parliament should be purged, if not by Plod, then by the people at the election.

Yow Min Lye

Why does an MP for a North London constituency need a second home in West London? Has he not heard of tube trains?

Michael Booth

Baroness Scotland needs to think twice about prosecuting anyone - she doesn't really make the World's Honest 100 List now, does she? But it's true, the Tory miscreants will get hammered and the ZanuLabourites, well, they will live to claim another day. It stinks, but they don't care.

David Ossitt

Everyone is passing the book; it is a little bit like the children’s party-game of pass the parcel.

Damning information is leaked; the press have a field-day, party leaders pretend remorse, the stupidly timid police get involved but with great reluctance and far too late, now the matter it is passed to the CPS.

How many cases? A hundred? Two hundred?

No; we are told, three or four individuals, MPs and Lords.

It is all a load of bollocks; I know that, everyone knows that.

Pass the parcel is aptly named as a party-game; we will soon have another of these children’s games, musical chairs.

Not one of the lying cheating bastards will do time in prison.

Me; I would hang the lot of them.

Chuck Unsworth

Brown - 'unwise'.

Exactly. Wisdom is just about the last quality this man has ever shown.

Wisdom is a very rare attribute amongst politicians. It requires, inter alia, the ability to take a long view, real confidence borne out of competence and knowledge, and humanity.

Despite Brown's bombast and bluster, he has none of these virtues.

2trueblue

Well, well, well, only a small number of flippers? The whole lot of flippers should be made to repay all the profit, it is not theirs. We were paying the mortgages, so how can they not see that?
There in lies the answer, they just don't get it, the lot of them.

JohnAnt

Of course Brown couldn't mention expenses. Her Maj might have reminded him that he had had to pay wrongly claimed expenses himself.

Frank P

Unless the erstwhile Home Secretary and her side-kick McNumpty get nicked, the whole exercise will be worse than a whitewash, it will be beyond a a Travesty and into Dodgsonian territory. As it is I shall be surprised if the 'not in the public interest' clause is not invoked. Fuckin' venal villains! Get the tumbrils rolling.

Frank P

Actually, I first misread the caption to this post as "Dodgy expenses preferred to the CPS" and thought, "Yes indeed. Far less damaging to the life of the nation."