Will Huhne survive this?

Heartless Curmudgeon

NONE! - I hope! (one less eco-loon on the loose and possibly other mis-d's)

And if there is a replacement, let him or her start at once to dismantle the lunacy of the windmill scam, rebuff the EUSSR, and demand our money back (any / all our money)!

Nickle

When Cam says he has confidence, that probably means he has confidence that Huhne is guilty.

Nickle

As for Laws, he still hasn't paid back all the money and he hasn't paid any interest on it to boot.

So much for MPs not benefiting. Optional interest free loans all round.

Pettros

The Laws love-in will begin soon
He is a disgrace who I never want to see near the cabinet.

Rhoda Klapp

They sent a 77-year-old man to jail for three months a while back for points-swapping. There a many other similar cases. What are the odds the minister (if found guilty, of course) will get a free ride? Wrist slap, fine, whatever.

I don't really want Laws back. I think we ought to limit the number of crooks in government where possible.

tb

But who will carry on his work of solving the pensions crisis by ensuring OAP haven't got enough money to buy fuel after subsidising his landowning peers to have windmills on their land?

Andy Carpark

1. Mr Hoskin - You are a decent bloke but this post just about captures everything that is wrong with the incumbent regime at the Spectator.

Andy Carpark

2. As JFK didn't quite say, 'Ask not what a new Energy Secretary would do to keep the lights on. Ask what a new Energy Secretary would do for Nick Clegg.'

Austin Barry

“...Tories and Lib Dems, who are eager to see him return. They reckon he's done his penance for those expenses sins by now.”

How magnanimous of them.

Andrew Tennant

I wonder which journalist at The Sunday Times has been tasked with writing them...

JohnPage

To those of us outside SW1 Laws is a thief. He deliberately stole from taxpayers. Maybe he would have been a brilliant minister. But he's a thief. End of.

I've read the convention is that a cabinet minister has to resign if he's *charged*.

Is that shifting?

Overall I have to agree with Andy Carpark about this post. (Fraser's post earlier about Cameron & capitalism is in this category too.)

AlanL

And what makes you think he will resign if he is charged? That does rather assume a degree of honour.

There will be fingernail marks down his desk before he goes.

Tankus

He's unfit to be a member of cabinet after leaking against Gove and May anyway !

Fergus Pickering

Well of course Huhne is guilty. We all know that. The question is, can we get him? Possibly we can, but the chance of him seeing a prison cell is very remote indeed. And who are we, I hear you cry. We are the good people of the UK.

Swiss Bob

If he's charged and convicted I'll be laughing all year.

Sir Everard Digby

Done his penance? Theft should disbar anyone from public office,not permit them to return after a period of time. His defence that he did not intend to benefit,nor did his partner always struck me as odd. If I did not intend to benefit by obtaining a few thousand quid, why bother taking it in the first place?

Vulture

I ask this question in all seriousness.

How can anyone so devoid of any qualities of warmth, honesty, charm or plain human decency get as far in politics as the horrible Huhne?

The same applies to G. brown, E. balls and the late E. heath. All utterly charmless, hate-filled, crazily obsessive near loons.

I know all politicians are rats, but to win votes they surely need at least a few decent human attributes. Huhne has none.

Everybody hates him : he don't care.

As for Laws - what's the point of getting rid of one crook and re-hiring another?

TrevorsDen

I think its an interesting article and of course by flat sharing Mr Laws saved the taxpayer money.
Is the new ultra legal and above board expenses regime saving the taxpayer any money?

It would be nice to think that if Huhne goes (and it should be for lying about the points when challenged - not the offence) that it would present an opportunity to reverse the current CO2 lunacy. But it seems the new religion for the LibDems.

REPay

Laws would be good news. He is an Orange Booker (that is a Lib Dem who can add up which is critical) and not one of those who would be happier in the Labour Party were it not for the ghastly people they would have to mix with.

Nerd Voters

Has anyone noticed that TrevorsDen is an anagram of nerd voters?

Does anyone think this an accident?

TrevorsDen = Conservative Party stooge. Don't listen to a word he/she says.

Nickle

But who will carry on his work of solving the pensions crisis

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Don't forget, its politicians who have caused the pensions crisis.

They took the money up front from people, and like Bernie Maddoff spent it.

Now the debts are due, they haven't got the money.

Now if they had invested the cash, the median worker would have had 19K joint life, linked to RPI. Instead they have 5K linked to CPI.

So much for corrupt statism.

Nicholas

Will Huhne survive this? I hope not.

Charles Moore revealed on QT last night that it was Huhne who leaked Gove's correspondence about the Royal Yacht to the Guardian. That, I believe, is the measure of the man, with previous for leaking private correspondence in attempts to smear.

Dave B

I don't see how Mr Laws can be appointed to cabinet. He is clearly a Bad Egg.

http://order-order.com/2011/05/13/why-the-laws-punishment-was-so-severe/

AJC

"They reckon he's done his penance for those expenses sins by now."

Has he appeared in court yet? No.

Tarka the Rotter

I think you are all being dashed unfair - Mr. Laws is eminently suitable to serve in a government of robber barons, such as the one we have now. Shame on you...

Tarka the Rotter Spotter

and as for 'confidence,' surely that's what one trickster has for another...

Hexhamgeezer

Lib Dems at the local level are notoroius for lying and shapeshifting to get themselves elected. It's in their and their leaders DNA.

BTW Mr Hoskin, Chris is spelt O-D-I-O-U-S

Cynic

"Will Huhne survive this?" I sincerely hope not. Perhaps then we can abolish the job of Climate Change guru and save a few bob.

Frank P

How would exchanging one ginger for another rectify anything? And 'rectify' in this context comes from the same root as 'rectum'. Moreover, what is the upshot of the CPS enquiry on Huhne and when is he, his wife, or both going to get nicked for perverting the course of justice and perjury? The delay stinks and is a stain on 'Cameron's Administration'. "Ask not for Huhne the bell tolls ...." it seems.

Mudplugger

Huhne is a smug, self-serving, dangerous, damaged, dissembling toad - Cameron & Clegg should have sacked him as soon as this proof of ministerial unsuitability broke.

Laws is simply a proven crook - to replace one toad with another would be indefensible.

Are they really suggesting that the complete ranks of both coalition parties do not feature anyone better than Huhne or Laws ? If so, they should all quit and let's fill the HoC with people of value and merit.

David Ossitt

I am amassed that whilst most of the posted comments suggest his guilt and yet they are in the main so polite.

Why?

This man is a shit, a schemer of schemes, a nark, a nasty piece of work, a tell tale, it is high time that he and his snotty ex-wife were banged up for their crimes.

Was I too polite?

Feste

Fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Let no such man be trusted!

xenophon

Let us hope the tardy CPS at last gets round to ridding us of this troublesome pest. And please could he reimburse the hard-pressed consumer for the energy taxes he's been extorting from us? He can do this out of his personal fortune: following his claim for a trouser press, we all know he's as rich as creases (© someone posting on Political Betting).

salieri

@ Feste

You have hit on something very interesting and important. The subject of that quotation is "The man that hath no music in himself...". All my life I've been convinced that politicians are what they are because the vast majority of them know nothing and care less about music.

Of course there are exceptions like Edward Heath but then apart from everything else he was also a lousy musician.

David Ossitt

salieri

“@ Feste

You have hit on something very interesting and important. The subject of that quotation is "The man that hath no music in himself...”

Yes; but here you are quoting from Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), the greatest wordsmith the world has ever known.

So surely this begs the question, must the music in himself; be music, or could it be the love of the spoken and written word?

salieri

David,

Interesting question, indeed, but there's no doubt that in this whole famous passage in Act V it is music, and only music, that Shakespeare is elevating. Vaughan Williams set the text as his sublime 'Serenade to Music': and at the first performance Rachmaninov, having just played his own 2nd concerto, sat in VW's box and was visibly overcome with emotion. Let no-one belittle the power of the spoken and written word. But this is Shakespeare's elegy to the power of music.

Arctic Monkeys to Gordon Brown.

Heartless C.

Well, anyway, he's a smug looking bastard isn't he?

john miller

Wow, Mr Arthur Scumballs thinks that Huhne will be prosecuted by the CPS.

Mr Arthur Scumballs also believes in God, the LibDems and the fairies at the bottom of the garden.

Mind you, he's right about the fairies...

Jon Stack

Any chance of having an energy minister who knows something about energy? Sorry, daft idea I know. I'll go and take a tablet.