Innocence or guilt

James

"...if he is guilty he is also the most accomplished, brazen and convincing liar I have ever seen." It's starting to look as tho' he is exactly that:

Earlier today, Lewis faced damaging new allegations that he misled the public by claiming to be a magistrate.

He used a City Hall press conference to claim he was a justice of the peace as he sought to defend himself against sleaze accusations.

Today, however, the Ministry of Justice insisted he had not been appointed as a magistrate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031848/Deputy-London-mayor-Ray-Lewis-resigns-amid-allegations-sleaze-bad-debts.html

Ian C

The amazing thing is that Boris and Conservative Central office did not know whether he was a JP in the first place. You would have thought that he had been thoroughly vetted for his position and that would have been done before the election.

Just proves that you cannot trust politicians to do anything. They should be paid to make decisions (on policy) and to conduct the debate that leads to those decsions, only, not to implement them.

In Lewis's case he apears to be one of the many required for helping to sort the social black hole that has been getting deeper under this atrocious government. But such people have to be seen to be whiter than white (difficult) and therefore vetted thoroughly for their wrinkles to be known and out there, because reforme characters will a huge part in what is needed. This was extra-ordinarily lazy of the Tories collectively, but it is Boris's first big failing, already. I have always been in the camp that says he's very high risk and the last thing Cameron needs is to be cleaning up his messes when trying to get elected.

This is as much Cameron's problem as Boris's because it was he/ID-S who found Lewis.