Reshuffle chatter

Gavin Maclure

Don't you mean the 2010 intake?

El Sid

2012 intake? So the Tories are planning to win some byelections then?

Magnolia

2012, Freudian slip?

Fish

Snap election???

Holly ......

Here's hoping.

Frank P

The blatant corruption of the CPS is manifest in the Huhne case and Cameron is implicated - how can he not be? The police have complained about the delay; who represents the public in this sleazy affair? A ranking member of the government is accused of perverting the course of justice and the CPS, the government and even the MSM are dragging their feet. It stinks! We're getting more like France every day. No accountability.
Let's have an answer Cameron. If he can prove his innocence then let's see the proof. If he can't then charge him and sack him. It's a disgraceful, cynical disregard for the law of land and deliberate obstruction of the police who wish to prosecute this perverted little crook. Get on with it! You've got peanut balls.

daniel maris

Meanwhile, back in the real world, unemployment leapt another 100,000, mass immigration continued at 500,000 per annum, private sector pensions have collapsed, the executive class continue to award themselves huge bonuses, millions are on a pay freeze that is costing them about 5% per annum in real terms, growth is negative and the welfare system is collapsing under the weight of
professional idlers and freeloaders from abroad.

Reshuffles are not important.

Geoff103

Frank P "If he can prove his innocence then let's see the proof. If he can't then charge him and sack him. It's a disgraceful, cynical disregard for the law of land and deliberate obstruction of the police who wish to prosecute this perverted little crook."

Just a small point, Frank, but nobody has to 'prove their innocence'. Not even Huhne,

And your suggestion that he must or be prosecuted would be the 'cynical disregard for the law' that you rail against.

But your post does have some merit. It illustrates perfectly the swamp of ignorance and bile that passes for debate on this and most other comment boards.

Widmerpool

Sadly it looks as if the PM may not have the spherical objects to shuffle Cable into Huhne’s job.
Trade is a key part of the economic recovery and IMHO poor old Vince just is not up to the job.
He is not an entrepreneur and never made a million for himself [I suspect] and is more interested in taxing millionaires than help them make money out of exports to BRIC countries etc.
He does know something about oil though so shuffle him to Energy and bring back David Laws a millionaire w knows a lot about making money?

Go for it Dave!

Swiss Bob

Frank P,

With Kier Starmer still in place there's little chance of one of his fellow travellers being prosecuted.

Why the Tories didn't sack him on day one I'd love to know.

Rhoda Klapp

I think Frank P has been in court enough times to know how it works.

It really is not acceptable for a minister of the crown to have such accusations running around. He ought to get his day in court, and one sees no reason for the CPS to prevaricate about it. We need to hear the evidence, both sides. Then if Huhne is found guilty, he should get a sentence in line with other point-swappers, who have been dealt with harshly, in my non-legal opinion.

Frank P

Geoff103

You completely evade the point; the police have submitted a prima facie case of a crime. The Court is where is should now be decided, not in some sleazy backroom of the Westminster Village by a cadre of politically motivated (not to mention pressured) shysters sucking their teeth and waiting for an expedient political opportunity to 'make a decision'.

The CPS in its inception, its operation and its continuation is a blight on our criminal justice system. And I suspect Swiss Bob is right about Kier Starmer, too.

Whatever were the defects of the erstwhile system of police responsibility for prosecution, with Magistrates as the arbiters of whether there was a case to answer, they were infinitesimal in comparison with the politicised, bureaucratic and yes, corrupt Crown Prosecution Service. This case exemplifies all that stinks about it.

Nicholas

It used to be simple. A police constable exercised his discretion to take a person whom he reasonably suspected of having committed an offence before a court where the prosecution case would be judged on the basis of the evidence and if proved beyond a reasonable doubt a conviction would follow.

Sorry, Geoff103, but "ignorance and bile" has nothing to do with legitimate oldie concern about New Labour's innovation of "trial by CPS". It is a secretive, arcane process with hefty doses of political influence and expediency as well as, one suspects, a hefty dose of political correctness.

Were it not for your last remark, revealing your "fellow traveller" affinity, your comment could be legitimate. As it stands it just adds to my concern that people like you might be part of the whole ghastly process of subverting centuries-proven principles of law and justice in this country. So don't you dare sneer about "ignorance and bile" just because the views expressed here don't conform to your vision for a top-down, unaccountable, corrupt and tyrannical apparatchik-controlled and exploited police state.

TrevorsDen

Agreed geoff103

FrankP's comment is beyond parody.

Frank P

TrevorsDen

We expect no less from an unmitigated apologist for scabby melange.

Frank P

Trev

Parody away; then - deal with the travesty of Huhne's free pass, not to mention Cameron's pusillanimous refusal to shit-can this fat-arsed crook.

Widmerpool

Poor old Vince he just can't let go of his Mansion Tax and taxing rich foreigners!
Cameron ought to reshuffle hin to Energy or anywhere but Trade.
Trade needs someone heading it who is interested in making millionaires not taxing them.
Sadly I don't think the PM is up for it but maybe the Chancellor is, George must be very bored with Vince droning on about his beloved Mansion Tax.

Fernando

Mightn’t there need to be a bigger reshuffle and even more problems for the Libdems if Cable is implicated in the Huhne speeding affair, as some are speculating. Imagine if Huhne and Cable joined Laws in the sin-bin. The Libdems aren’t exactly awash with talent. As regards the electoral consequences: forget about the taxi, bring on the unicycle.

Malfleur

Is the CPS moving in the direction of Arizona, where 'the chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona has cited his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in refusing on Friday to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in its ongoing investigation into the failed “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation'? (Washington Times)

Geoff103

"You completely evade the point; the police have submitted a prima facie case of a crime."

You've absolutely no idea what the police have submitted to the CPS. Nobody but the Essex Police or the CPS officers know. All we have is rumour and newspaper speculation

But like most of the your fellow Mr Angry posters, you use your antipathy towards Huhne to make that fit your preconceived idea of his *guilt*

I have absolutely no time for Huhne politically but that has never been grounds for the kind of witch hunt that internet comment boards generate.

Frank P

Geoff103

http://www.longridgenews.co.uk/news/national/police_seek_to_prosecute_huhne_1_4090031

I have a very good idea about what the police have submitted. The CPS delay stinks.

Geoff103

Frank P:

And just what does your link show?

Nothing more than newspaper speculation - as your link expressly illustrates.

Rhoda Klapp

geoff103, imagine for a second that the CPS does not indict. There will then be a shadow of doubt hanging over that nice Mr Huhne. There has been so much speculation over his guilt, so many hints of revelatory emails and impossible timings that in the eyes of the public there is a case to answer. Presumably if he is innocent (as I presume him to be, of course) the prosecution case cannot be made. The CPS has a bad enough rep as it is. It should not make it worse by leaving Mr Huhne hanging out to dry in this way. It owes it to him to indict.

Geoff103

RK

???

So, if someone, anyone, is not before the courts on any matter, presumably a doubt will always hang over them. So for their sakes, they should be brought before the courts?

Sophistry, mere sophistry.

Huhne's case will get what the evidence dictates. All in good time, all in good time.

Frank P

Huhne's case will get what political expediency dictates, which is why we must keep up the pressure.

Frank P

btw - once upon a time before the bent politicians hi-jacked the criminal justice system, if a police constable (of any rank) presented a Station Sergeant with prima facie evidence of a crime and the Sergeant refused to charge the suspect, the Sergeant was guilty of a criminal offence himself. I suggest they apply the same rules to the shysters of the CPS.