Veracious Vera………..do explain!
Lord Ahmed who was jailed for 12 weeks for sending and receiving text messages while driving on the M1 has been released by the Court of Appeal. The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, made it clear his text messaging had finished two minutes before the accident took place and was not connected. Lord Ahmed, of Rotherham, sent and received a series of five text messages while driving in the dark at speeds of, and above, 60mph along a 17-mile stretch of the motorway.
Lord Ahmed has served 16 days in prison and was due to be released on 20 March.
Allowing Lord Ahmed’s sentence appeal, Lady Justice Hallett said that the imposition of a prison sentence in his case had been justified.
However, she added that the court had been persuaded that it could now take an “exceptional” course and suspend the 12 weeks for 12 months.
The story on the BBC newsite is accompanied by a photograph of Lord Ahmed – which is captioned “Lord Ahmed suffered facial injuries in the collision”.
The BBC do mention poor Mr Gombar who lost his life, not just his pretty face…..
Mr Gombar, who was Slovakian, had crashed into the central reservation, leaving his Audi facing the wrong way in the third lane of the motorway.
One motorist had already clipped his car and another had to take evasive action to avoid it.
Altogether now –
“I must not crash my car on the M1 and leave it facing the wrong way in case any Peers of the realm have finished their text messages and end up cutting their faces and serving a miserable 16 days in prison as a result of my thoughtlessness”.
I am speechless.
I wrote a piece on Lord Ahmed – I didn’t actually say that he was texting at the time of the accident, but ‘Our Vera’ as she is now known amongst my regulars, or the august Solicitor-General to those of you not on first name terms with her, took it upon herself to drop into my humble blog abode and rigorously defend Lord Ahmed.
This link will take you to the piece she commented on
Link to Vera……
The idea of the Solicitor-General taking time out of her busy life to put right a mere blogger caused something of a stir at the time – with hindsight, she must have been working late that night on Lord Ahmed’s papers, since none of us suspected that he would bother to appeal against the original derisory sentence.
Dizzy checked out the IP – and it was indeed her from her office in Parliament.
What is so important about Ahmed that he commands that sort of support?
March 14, 2009 at 17:19
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Sometimes I think these poor Judges rely too heavily on the fantabulous
lawyers that are employed by people with the money to do so.
Given that the Judiciary have a long-standing agreement to piss in the same
pot ……………. I think we have to accept that whereas we sometimes don’t tread on
the toes of our peers ……………. they don’t want to be seen to be pissing on their
peers ………… or lawyers of friends, relatives and their professional peers.
Some lawyers are so good thay are constantly in the newspapers ……….. I
think some Judges cannot be bothered with the fuss of slapping them down for
fear of being dragged into the limelight and being discussed on blogs!
- March 14, 2009 at 17:12
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I would have a pint of that too …………… But I am driving with my phone in one
hand and typing on my lap-top with the other. Is this illegal …………. If so
……….. what would my sentence be? What would it be if I hit another vehicle?
What would it be if I was a Lordy-type of person?
- March 14, 2009 at 17:11
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I would have a pint of that too …………… But I am driving with my phone in one
hand and typing on my lap-top with the other. Is this illegal …………. If so
……….. what would my sentence be? What would it be if I hit another vehicle?
What would it be if I was Lordy-type of person?
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March 14, 2009 at 17:05
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Hic! You can have a few words of mine if you like, Anna; I was trying to
put together the words “breathtaking and blameworthy manipulation of
jurisprudence…..” Oh, I appear to have constructed something after all. Jolly
good.
- March 14, 2009 at 17:00
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I’ll have a pint of that!
- March 14, 2009 at 17:22
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March 14, 2009 at 16:55
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Yes, well said Delphius1. I’m too irate to construct a coherent post at the
moment.
- March 14, 2009 at 16:56
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I am too incoherent to contract an irate post – shall we swap Gloria?
- March 14, 2009 at 16:57
- March 14, 2009 at 15:28
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Saul ……………. You echo mine and the Hubby’s thoughts. Bunch of tossers is a
somewhat milder term than we have ourselves been using ……….. but most apt for
on here.
- March 14, 2009 at 15:26
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Jolly well said Delphius 1! Methinks that many lawyers will cite this
Lordy’s case for some time to come. Perhaps those who can afford good lawyers
will appeal against their sentences served or still serving.
I wonder …………….
- March 14, 2009 at 12:57
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Most people would be full of remorse having been instrumental in killing
somebody else. They would go to court and face the music, the fact that a
light sentence was handed out wouldn’t come into it. The Lord pleaded guilty
and should accept his sentence, it is not like the life sentence the victims
family have to live. To then turn around and appeal an already ridiculously
light sentence is tantamount to kicking the family whilst they are
down.
The fact that his appeal was upheld just speaks volumes about the
state of Britain today. Who on earth would agree that he should be free?
They are all a bunch of tossers in it for what they can get, watching each
others backs as they stroll on their merry way.
- March
14, 2009 at 03:30
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Its easy to explain:
even though Lord Ahmed was travelling too fast to stop in the distance his
headlights could illuminate, even though he couldn’t swerve to avoid the
collision, or brake soon enough so as to avoid injuring the occupants of his
car and killing the man in the other car, he didn’t cause death by dangerous
driving according to those in the elite.
Instead, he only had an unaviodable accident, which was in no way connected
to his previous texting activities.
The two happening only minutes away was one of life’s little
coincidences.
Thats why he walked free.
Any clearer? No, it isn’t for me either. But I see the woman jailed for
virtually the same offence is having her prison sentence reviewed as too
lenient. I do hope in the interests of justice, her lawyers will cite the Lord
Ahmed case as a matter of principle.
Because of course a Lord shouldn’t get preferrential treatment by the
courts, should they? So the woman should be let off as lightly too.
- March 12, 2009 at 23:24
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Pity the poor seamstress who is busily picking the arrows out of his
Ermine.
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March 12, 2009 at 23:24
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Chin chin! Night now! I’m going to watch the last episode of DEXTER!
- March 12, 2009 at 23:23
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I wonder if the good Lord made any match decorated Golden Virginia tins
during his brief sojourn.
- March 12, 2009 at 23:19
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He’ll soon be yesterdays news.
Sir Fred who?
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March 12, 2009 at 23:13
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Coco. No. We can’t. Sorry. Madoff is a Oneoff.
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March 12, 2009 at 23:12
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Sn’owt doowt aboowt it, Sauwwul. Thart reet. A’jis moowved doon t’t Sooth
whin ahway twoo yers awld an I joost wish yoow’d warned me yoowere coming over
all clever, like, orreyed norrrah bothud putt’n a reff’rnce in to tobbaccer at
ahl. Eye’ll seeyaz soomtiem, mebbee.
- March 12, 2009 at 23:05
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I’ve got Moslems on the brain this week!
- March 12, 2009 at 23:05
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Madoff ……..
- March 12, 2009 at 23:04
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Saul and Glo! Madoof’s going down for life. Can we do that with the little
bastard who wreaked havoc with the RBS?
- March 12, 2009 at 23:04
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We’ll have to get the razor blades to the box of Swans, deftly used it can
turn one match into four.
(or so I am told)
- March 12, 2009 at 23:02
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In nick speak, it is snout Glo.
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March 12, 2009 at 23:00
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Spark up a tab, love, there’s a dear – a brief phosphorescent illumination
of the sallow-skinned smoker’s world sheds a tiny light in these black times,
however unhealthy.
- March 12, 2009 at 23:00
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Why not just wait another 8 days and avoid all the hassle. Or were the
Wheels of Justice already wheezing and clanking along, having been set in
motion previously?
- March 12, 2009 at 22:49
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Bloody Hell it’s dark in here!
- March 12, 2009 at 22:44
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Bon nuit Guys!
Hope the Secret Police don’t drag you to a dungeon during the night.
Don’t mock! It happens ………… all the time.
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March 12, 2009 at 22:13
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I’ve got a pair of specially adapted Marigolds to hand in case of just such
an occasion, Coco. Our Vera’s bonce need never go short of a multi-layered,
multi-dimensional yet stimulative once-over if I’ve managed to franchise a
tickle from Vinegar Vera’s vanguard in all our ladies’ prisons. I’m off for a
few hours now to put my knuckles through the most taxing of their paces.
Adieu, mon braves, a bientot (without the circumflex cos a certain A Raccoon
daren’t risk the cartwheels I might inflict should I attempt some emboldening
or, heaven forfend, some italicising). Bye for now.
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March 12, 2009 at 22:29
- March 12, 2009 at 21:53
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Glo! ………… What if Our Vera ends up in cell on my block ……….. for being
complicit in Gordie’s demise? Will you do her manicures as well please? And I
like an Indian Head massage ………….
- March 12, 2009 at 21:50
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Just re-read the comments to see if Our Vera or Lady Justice Hallett had
been here …………….. but I can’t see anything yet.
I will just check again …………….
- March 12, 2009 at 21:45
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Old Holborn! Thanks for the TV link. Hubby is fascinated to know if there
is a way of getting SKY football matches!
- March 12, 2009 at 21:41
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Obviously another bloody idiot who does not realise that lesbians,
bi-sexual and gay people existed all around them then Janes. I hope you
trounced her!
I watched many episodes of Cell Block H ………. and even before that ………..
Within These Walls! It made me afraid to ever end up in prison I can tell you
………… but not because of the sexuality of the prisoners.
However Baywatch was another kettle of fish! What a pile of tripe. It was
enough to put women off women and was only fodder for teenage boys ………. as my
brother would definitely testify! Testify being the operative ……….. I never
actually caught him with his hand down there ……… but I saw the glazed look in
his eyes!
- March 12, 2009 at 21:24
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Whilst reposing in a hospital parents’ room once Prisoner Cell Block H came
on TV (it was a long time ago). One mummy immediately ranted about the sorts
of people who watched it, all lesbians she shouted with great disgust. ‘Surely
they would prefer Baywatch’ came the swift response from another mummy. What a
star!
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March 12, 2009 at 21:23
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janes’ ire causes Smudd’s bowels to tend toward the liquid and she too
stumps off for a fag… a worried hippo pulls some very unpleasant expressions
…
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March 12, 2009 at 21:19
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I’ll retrain, Coco, I’ll retrain. Your talons will be tended during your
detention at Her Majesty’s. I’ll set up a mobile tribute Prisoner Cell Block H
-themed Nail Bar called ‘Vinegar Vera’s Nail Bar. What do you think? (check
out Prisoner Cell Block H/Vinegar Vera and you will see that a tribute nail
bar is long overdue.)
- March 12, 2009 at 21:19
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Errrrrr ………….. Janes ………….. Would you like to come and park that tank of
yours in a cctv controlled area at the back of my house please? I will let you
play with the artillery I nicked from a *********** army base a couple of
weeks ago.
- March 12, 2009 at 21:14
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For fuck’s sake. I take a few minutes off for a fag and a fone call and
come back to find I’ve been insulted. Again. I’ll unge you Gloria. And I’ll
get my sprog to unge yours. I have to have another smoke now to calm down.
- March 12, 2009 at 21:13
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I have told you Glo ……………. I failed an nail appointment last week and my
nails are like talons. My nails are slipping off the keys quicker than videos
of the McCanns are struck from the net!
I hope they have manicurists in the prison I am flung into.
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March 12, 2009 at 21:07
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Ther you go Glo!
……….
Ther you go Glo! …? What sort of an
encouragement is THAT? I think I’ll be looking as hard as I can for a “typists
should be able to control their speedy digits” channel before I am accused of
favouritism; don’t forget ‘unge’. Poor janes was ribbed mercilessly for her
single lapse in otherwise spot-on typing skills. For that I apologise.
- March 12, 2009 at 21:06
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Saul! That’s a point! …………….. He will probably just write a book! It’s what
Lordies do.
Let’s just hope that he donates the money to the dead man’s family!
- March 12, 2009 at 21:04
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Ah! Old Holborn! Ah ……… medear may have to do a whistle=stop tour like
Obama when he won the election. I believe there are half a dozen mosques in
the area of Rotherham. No doubt the balloons are on all the inside to welcome
him home ………….. Figuratively speaking of course ………… Figuratively
speaking!
I wonder what kind of welcome home an ex-prison Lordy thingy gets when they
come out of prison? It’s not like they can even get pissed!
I wonder what Lordy Archery did when he got out? I can’t see Mary doing a
spread for him! No
pun intended ………… But she was pissed off!
- March 12, 2009 at 21:01
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Now the 12 weeks is suspended, can he claim “compo” for the time he has
been inside?
- March 12, 2009 at 20:55
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Old Holborn!!! I am beholden to you forever! Being a novice computer user I
have tried to find something like this before. Many, many grateful thanks!
X
Ther you go Glo! No more insurgents wrecking your news hour!
I am made up now! I can watch my garden grow without getting off the
sofa!
- March 12, 2009 at 20:50
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Regarding the Continengy Con …………….. I think I have just realised why the
Government suddenly came round to my decades-long campaign for the early
release of innocent and non-problematic prisoners ………… It;s so they can put
people like us in the nick ………… for daring to protest at a Fascist
Government!!!
Gerry McCann blamed the Portuguese Police’s failure to find his daughter on
the earlier fascist regime and its archaic laws. Leaving aside the fact that
we know without doubt the Portuguese carried out the investigation impeccably
(and are hopefully continuing in the same vein!) I think that the recent
attacks on the media by people like Clearance Mitchell amd Max Mosel ……………… I
reckon there could be an internet black-out if we are not careful.
We can’t have people criticising the Judiciary and Parliamentary figures
…………. because that is anarchy!
I hope the contingency for the contingency is well under way ……….. or else
we could have aTory leadership sooner than we dared to hope.
What say ye Cameron? Or do you want it all done and dusted before you get
your power back?
Come on Cameron ………….. Should the Judiciary be a part of the downfall of
Brown or not?
- March 12, 2009 at 20:49
- March 12, 2009 at 20:49
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I suspect he’ll be at the Rotherham Mosque bright and early tomorrow
morning.
Just saying, like…….
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March 12, 2009 at 20:43
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I happen to have a juvenile member of the family for whom advice on the
best way to squeeze a chosen one among many pimples might mean the difference
between James Woods’ epidermal scarring and the prospect of a blemish-free
complexion. However, that argument is academic since the two juveniles tune in
to Channel 4 ‘of a morning’ while they munch down their Croque Monsieurs or
their poached eggs and chart the countdown to the ‘out-of-the-door-moment’
chuckling along to ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ and sometimes the gigglish
‘Frasier’.
- March 12, 2009 at 20:33
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The BBC is a crap money-making racket for the Government. Nothing more and
nothing less.
Given that we can watch everything online …………. I am thinking of just using
the television sets for cctv purposes from now on.
So that I can watch who tries to get over the walls to pinch my stash of
tinned food out of the garages.
Am I allowed to store forty calor gas bottles or will I get into
bother?
What is the maximum I am allowed to have?
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March 12, 2009 at 20:24
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Anna – if you mean the BBC’s 6 O’Clock News, I think that last carried any
real weight when Kenneth Kendall was sonorously in charge. The BBC’s Breakfast
coverage is mostly babycham banter about whether their award-winning (?)
weather-woman needs a scarf to stand in the mud of the Blue Peter Garden or
about Kate Silverton’s engagement or Bill’s beekeepin’. I never get a chance
to watch the news after 4pm when the insurgents get home from school and from
then on it’s an unvaried diet of that ruddy Dave Top Gear channel, Pimp My
Ride or something with Welsh people called Dirty Sanchez.
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March 12, 2009 at 20:31
- March 12, 2009 at 20:22
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Errrrr ………….. Will Ahmedear be put on a tag ………….. so that he can’t get up
to any more mischief?
- March 12, 2009 at 20:21
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Just had a thought after reading Heny Crun’s laundry-bag comment. What if
it’s the women who storm Parliament?
How will we be able to make a positive identification ………….. if they do it
wearing veils? Scenes from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life spring to mind
………………..
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March 12, 2009 at 20:04
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Thank you, Henry Crun. That’s what I thought but I thought I was
mistaken.
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March 12, 2009 at 20:02
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Good point, Coco. And never mind that people suggest smoking causes
cat’s-bum lip-lines : look at Marlene’s taut jawline! Only a powerful draw can
chisel that kind of definition!
- March 12, 2009 at 20:01
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Gloria, I think Lord Ahmed’s community work consists of holding back the 10
000 bearded laundry bags from storming the gates of parliament.
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March 12, 2009 at 20:16
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I didn’t think anything would make me laugh after the 6pm news.
Henry
– thank-you, valiant attempt on your part, I did manage a wry grin.
You
were joking weren’t you?
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March 12, 2009 at 20:17
- March 12, 2009 at 19:59
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He’s probably part of a Lords’ Select Committee investigating the benefits
of community service.
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March 12, 2009 at 19:58
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Can anyone else pinpoint what is so vital about Lord Ahmed’s ‘community
work’ (not community service) that 8 missed days would damage it so? ? ….. ?
…. ?
- March 12, 2009 at 19:56
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Exactly Janes! Bless him. An eternal Peter Pan.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:55
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Gloria!
It’s
for all the passive smokers who are too tight to buy their own fags.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:52
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I know! ………. He should have to sweep the motorway of debris ………… Then he
would have an idea of how dangerous the motorway network is.
I am sure that Lady Justice Hallett would approve of this. Afterv all
………
she must remeber the case I mentioned earlier where a sofa fell off the
back of a pick-up truck!
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March 12, 2009 at 19:51
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Nice new avatar, Coco. Love the secondary smoke.
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March 12, 2009 at 19:51
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I tried ‘googling’ Lord Ahmed’s community work… nope, I don’t think he was
ever in line for a few days spent extracting cat-poo from the kiddies’
neighbourhood sandpit or scraping chewing-gum from the pavements. I can’t
quite work out why, if he wasn’t doing it in the first place, he shouldn’t not
have done it for another 8 more days though.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:48
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MJ was charged – and found not guilty.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:46
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Oh Gloria! You are bang on time …………… Just about to go over the edge again
there.
I hope his community work will be making reparation to the family of the
person who was errrrrr ……………… killed on the motorway.
I hope they make him wear a yellow fluorescent jacket so that we can see
him coming.
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March 12, 2009 at 19:41
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What? Not even being photographed scraping chewing gum off the pavements
whilst wearing a luminous jacket? Not on gloveless dog-poo duty in the local
kiddies’ playground? Not on Booze-Britain vomit clearance? Oh. He could have
made such a difference in those 8 days.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:36
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Not a lot Gloria – mostly you turn up, get signed up and then sit around
twiddling your thumbs until going home time. A bit like going on a nice
relaxing holiday.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:34
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Enraged Briton …………. I applaud your right to be enraged. But I don’t think
we will be allowed to be enraged much longer. I think that all of the people
who state their enragement will be squashed into little cells in the big new
prisons that the Government are ready to start building.
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March 12, 2009 at 19:31
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And, um, could we just have a brief run-down of what exactly it is that his
community work entails?
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March 12, 2009 at 19:34
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March 12, 2009 at 19:44
- March 12, 2009 at 19:30
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So what do we next? Shall I start stocking up on tinned food and
tobacco?
Will there be curfews?
- March 12, 2009 at 19:28
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Thanks Cynister ……………. I am really scared now!
- March 12, 2009 at 19:27
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Ooooooh! If I was a one of those daft conspiracists who believed that the
New World Order was about to thrust itself into the limelight ……………. I would
be concerned at the fact that Ahmedear’s sentence has been suspended.
But I would be even more concerned that a big gang of Moslems screaming
their hate were allowed to protest about our Armed Forces killing babies ………….
Especially as two people who tried to stop the big gang of Moslems protesting
about our Armed Forces killing babies ……………. caught the attention of the
police.
It is a funny old World at the moment.
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March 12, 2009 at 19:22
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Throwing a shoe at President Bush – 3 years.
Killing a man on the M1 –
16 days.
I am ashamed.
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March 12, 2009 at 19:13
- March 12, 2009 at 19:10
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Coco and Anna Raccoon. You will find that this is the same Lady Justice
Hallett.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:07
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Yes Peter! And they would like it sooner rather than later.
- March 12, 2009 at 19:06
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Please forgive my impertinence …………… Is this the same Lady Justice Hallett
who sat on the Anthony Barnes case in October 2008?
I hope it isn’t!
But if it is then we must refresh her memory and ask that she refer back to
that particular case where she argued that Barnes’ two years sentence was not
excessive in light of the fact that the death he caused had impacted
enormously on the dead man’s family.
If it is the same Lady Justice Hallett …………….. maybe she would like to pop
in to Anna Raccoon.
Our Vera was welcome …………… and so is Lady Justice Hallett.
This welcome is extended to all members of he Judiciary of course.
There is no elitism or favouritism on Anna Racoon.
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March 12, 2009 at 18:40
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Do the government want a riot so that they can bring in the Civil
Contingency laws and avoid an election?
- March 12, 2009 at 18:30
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Sharia Law ………………… Here we come,
- March 12, 2009 at 17:59
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From now on I wish to be referrred to as the Honourable Venerable
Desperately Vivacious Delectable Darling Lady Justice Coco of Anna Raccoon
…………….. if that is OK?
However ………. I will be Coco to my friends and enemies.
- March 12, 2009 at 17:55
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I think we all need to rethink our careers. I want to be a Lordy or
anything to do woth the Government …………… coz then I can get away with …………
errrrr ……….. anything!
- March 12, 2009 at 17:53
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Same here Janes!
- March 12, 2009 at 17:30
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Lady Justice Hallett? I suggest the ‘Justice’ is a misnomer. Other than
that, words fail me.
- March 12, 2009 at 17:29
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I would like to know what has persuaded the Court to take an exceptional
course and suspend the sentence.
Was it Ahmedear’s lawyer who managed to persuade the Court?
If so …………….. What are his connections with the Powers That Be ………… coz I
reckon he will dead busy from now on!
But maybe it wasn’t Ahmedear’s lawyer. So who or what is so bloody
persuasive?
- March 12, 2009 at 17:23
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I want Vera to come back and comfort me with platitudes again. Then I will
be OK and accept it.
- March 12, 2009 at 17:21
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Whether he was actually texting or not ……………… How do we know that he was
not in the middle of writing another text?
There was time before the bizzies arrived to delete a text in
progress.
One has to assume that it takes a lot longer to compose a text
than it would if one was sat on a sun-lounger without anything else to disturb
oneself.
I hope the family is making progress in taking this further.
A foreing truck driver is serving a long sentence for not
concentrating.
There really is something very unsavoury about the leniency shown in this
case.
Surely he should be serving time for having sent the texts we already know
about?
If not ………. why not?
He could have killed somebody!
Oh! That’s right …………… he did.
- March 12, 2009 at 17:13
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Coco is speechless ……………….
- March 12, 2009 at 17:13
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Very worrying!
- March 12, 2009 at 17:12
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Outrageous!
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