The Son that Eclipsed the Huhne.
The towering ego of Chris Huhne, brought humiliatingly to ground in supplication at the altar of public opinion by his Son gives me no pleasure. I am no supporter of Huhne, his crimes against constituency and country at large are too numerous for that; I do feel immense sadness for his teenage son, however.
To be sitting your final exams at Oxford university, when your head should be full of the intricacies of the inner meaning of Godot, and yet your heart is so full of pain that you pen, not a superlative essay, but a text to your Father, bursting with impotent rage.
Leave me alone, you have no place in my life and no right to be proud. It’s irritating that you don’t seem to take the point. You are such an autistic piece of s**t. Don’t contact me again, you make me feel sick.
And later:
Don’t text me you fat piece of s**t.
‘Fat piece of s**t’. It is the language of the anonymous Twitterer; those of us who dwell in the blogosphere see such phrases hurled casually several times a day, they have long since lost their ability to shock, or so I thought. But from a Son to his Father? It carries such utter contempt, such bridge burning finality, such fiery desire to lash out and hurt the recipient, that I was truly shocked, and saddened for the young man who must carry the burden of this hatred within him until, if ever, it finally burns out.
It was said at the week-end, that one sixth of Conservative marriages have failed since the last election. That this is somehow a reason why we should ‘ease up’ on our politicians, not focus on their personal shortcomings; take the spotlight off their personal peccadillos whilst they selflessly deal with the business of sending our sons to have their legs blown off in some fly blown desert.
I disagree; if a man can induce his son to loathe him so profoundly, he has no place telling the rest of us how to live our lives.
Rachael Sylvester in the Times this morning puts up a spirited defence of Huhne – she is a friend of his. It was, she says, a speeding offence ’that took place before he even became a politician’ and he has ‘paid an extraordinarily high price’ for ‘driving a bit too fast’. Not a bit of it, I have no doubt that the Judge will ignore his public position in sentencing him, and sentence him in the same time frame that he would sentence any other man or woman. Probably nine months in an open prison and then an electronic tag and the inevitable book deal…
Mr Huhne did not defraud the taxpayer with his expenses claims, accept bribes from lobbyists or get involved in an arms-dealing scam.
I find nine months in prison an extraordinarily low price to be paid for having damaged his family to the extent he has done.
Bryan Appleyard says that:
Maybe, just maybe, if we started treating these people with respect we might, in, say, twenty years, acquire people of substance at the top. It has to be worth a try.
We did, Bryan, historically we had great respect for our politicians; it was they who lost our respect with their sordid affairs with the interior decorator and their predilection for sex with added orange. Perhaps if they tried living their lives as ordinary, honest, men and women, in twenty years we might treat them with respect again.
The irony is that Huhne lost his licence anyway six months after ‘driving a bit too fast’ – for using his mobile phone whilst driving down the Old Kent Road. Here was a man who believed that laws were something he made for the little people. A man who lied to his colleagues, to parliament, to the country; a man who wasted acres of police time, paid for by the tax payer, investigating his lies. A man who saw no reason why he should be held to account for anything, least of all breaking the law. A man who campaigned for parliament as a ‘family man’, relying on their silence of what they knew of him, and then repaid them once he was safely installed as MP for Eastleigh by leaving them to fend for themselves whilst he ran off with his press agent and spinner in chief.
I doubt that he can rely on Carina Trimingham to support him financially, as his wife Vicky once did, when he tries to rebuild his life after prison. Her expertise was allegedly in presenting politicians in a positive light in the media. Given the press which Huhne has endured since he hooked up with the bisexual Ms Trimingham (who has her own track record of leaving partners in the lurch) any politician who hired her to conduct their publicity would need their head seeing to.
I only hope that Peter Huhne is able to find some peace and solace in having performed, so effectively, that age old rite of ‘decking’ your Father.
Truly a case of the Son having eclipsed the Huhne.
February 8,
2013 at 23:30
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Perhaps this is why Peter Huhne is rather miffed at Christopher Paul-Huhne:
- February 9, 2013 at 08:18
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Is that the one who has changed their name? The Mail seems to think it is
Peter Huhen now…..
- February 7, 2013 at 12:15
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Bravo, Ms Raccoon, for your very entertaining answers at countingcats.com.
The best by far so far.
- February 7, 2013 at 02:09
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I could care less about Huhne, except this fabric of lies reveals the level
of management skills that the Camoron and Clegg have (negligible to zero).
After all the equivocating and lobbying I would be very surprised if his
sentence was worse than writing “I have been a very naughty boy” fifty times
in his best handwriting.
What I really need to know, is did Hewlett Packard get Anna’s print driver
issue resolved in 24 hours?
- February 7, 2013 at 07:00
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Absolutely not!
So far they have sent me a Valentine card (I kid you not!!!) and a copy
of an e-mail in French from HP France to HP America asking why, if I live in
France, is HP America giving an ‘American phone number’ for me………it was the
phone number for HP head office at the bottom of the originating e-mail!
You couldn’t make it up! It’s going to turn into a book never mind a blog
post.
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February 7, 2013 at 11:42
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Told you not to hold your breath !
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February 7, 2013 at 18:31
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” a copy of an e-mail in French from HP France to HP America asking
why, if I live in France, is HP America giving an ‘American phone number’
for me”……………..nice to know they concentrate on the important facts.
I cannot say I am surprised, though initially their response sounded
promising. It is obvious they are more concerned about “managing” negative
commentary than resolving technical issues, kinda like the NHS, camoron
and Obama. A sad commentary on US private sector decline.
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February 7, 2013 at 00:43
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About the only thing missing from this whole James Hadley
Chase/film-noiresque story of a man getting his wife to take the rap for him,
thinking she’ll be a good and dutiful wife, then dumping her years later and
being surprised when she turns the tables on him and ruins his life, is the
moment of its dawning on the guy what a wretch he’s been, or at any rate an
oblivious idiot, and that the wife was no bargain to begin with, but he was
too blind to see all that. That, and the scene at the end where she whips out
a gun…
- February 6, 2013 at 20:45
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Just borrowed the text of that text Anna, and made it part of a game show
in my blog, Name That Huhne
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February 6, 2013 at 20:23
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When I read the text exchange I was very nearly moved to tears. Not for
Huhne – anyone who can put himself in the place he has done for the sake of
three points on his license is not worthy of pity – but for his
son.
Whatever life throws at you and whatever you make of it, there is no
greater failure than to have your own offspring hate your guts. If my own had
ever sent me such texts I would actually feel like topping myself. And yet
still one suspects that Huhne mourns the loss of his career, not of his son’s
love. Truly tragic.
- February 6, 2013 at 11:52
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I keep reading that the tragedy of all this is that it’s down to a simple
speeding offence (Rachel Sylvester and The Times to note.) It’s not; that’s
bugger-all to do with it. It’s for perverting the course of justice by lying –
a much more serious offence (and one which, joyfully in this case, brings with
at a prison sentence.
- February 6, 2013 at 12:17
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“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve
learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders
one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s
master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that
person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the
world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the
blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn
Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- February 6, 2013 at 12:23
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I think he also mightily p….d off his now ex wife too.
We only learn
how serious and unending that is when it’s too late.
- February 6, 2013 at 15:28
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binao – wise words
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February 6, 2013 at 11:08
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I’ve lived through a senile prime minister. A sick one who supported Suez.
Profumo,The orange man. Mr thorpe and his activities and scrapes with the law.
A PM who resigned when he felt his mind was slip sliding away. A lib leader
who drank too much and resigned. A high up gent in the labour party who kept
coming back and back and back. The expenses scandals. Mr Archer et al. The the
disastrous Tony Blair and friends. The recent ‘pleb’ fiasco. I have heard
naughty tales about the grey PM and a certain lady. How the heck am I going to
drag myself to the polling station next time? Who the hell can I vote for that
will not spend a tiny amount of money on the fish stall in the market, and
claim it back in his expenses. I despair of this once great nation.
- February 7, 2013 at 00:40
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Very true… very saddening.
- February 5, 2013 at 23:51
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In the Antipodes we also have an example of the once mighty bought down
because he thought he was not required to abide by all of those annoying laws
that were made for the pleds.
I give you Federal Court Judge Marcus Enfield.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Einfeld
- February 5, 2013 at 22:41
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Here’s my two cents worth of a story involving a woman scorned.
I was
booking in a prisoner when the custody went quiet as a man was bought in by
the “rubber heelers” as they say. A PC six months from retiring had been
arrested.He had had an affair with a friend of his wife and in revenge the
wife reported her husband for reporting his car stolen and making an insurance
claim some 5 or 6 years before.The car had not been stolen.The stupid PC put
the car in a lock-up nearby and pocketed the money.The wife lead the police to
the location and he was done for.It wasn’t even an expensive car and he
couldn’t even drive it again because it had been reported stolen.It was an
incredibly stupid thing to do.Both ended up as losers in the end.He went to
prison and the wife missed out on her share of the pension he would have
received by retiring a few months later.A lesson for all.
- February 5, 2013 at 20:19
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I think that Huhne’s son hit the nail on the head when he texted his
father, telling him that he ‘just didn’t get it’… I submit that Huhne really
doesn’t.
This, to me is evidence of an inner truth about Chris Huhne – that he is so
arrogant and so focussed on himself that he was prepared to lie, lie and lie
again in order to further his career, do anything to get where he wanted to
go. Everything about him said ‘Man in a hurry’. Huhne was, reportedly an
abrasive man, whom few in politics will feel a moment’s sympathy for now he
has fallen so spectacularly from grace.
The most telling thing yesterday was Huhne’s insouicant performance outside
the court, blithely announcing that he had pleaded guilty, but managing to do
so in such a manner that made it sound as if he had done something noble,
shouldering the blame, taking responsibility etc. Ye Gods! The utter brass
neck of the fellow!! Huhne was forced to plead guilty, when all other avenue’s
were closed to him and only then at the last available opportunity.
I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for Huhne, who is solely to blame
for being in the mess he is now in. I have to confess, however, at the
thoroughly unpleasant way Peter Huhne replied to his father, even though he
patently hates him. There is, I would suggest no reason to use such language
in such circumstances, whatever the provocation. I can never see a
reconciliation between them, which is sad for both.
- February 6, 2013 at 16:05
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His sons words are those of someone who believes he will never be
reconciled with his father. They are the words of a young adult who has
discovered his father is not just a shit but that he has Narcissistic
Personality Disorder. There is never any reconciling there. PH has realised
a truth and has spared himself years of wishful thinking. It is terribly sad
and shocking to discover that a parent has no love for anyone bar
him/herself and is not capable of the emotion in the sense most would
understand it.
- February 6, 2013 at 17:24
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It did strike me as funny that the young Oxbridge student uses the term
“fat” in such an ill-matched pejorative sense. I mean, one could make
various comments about Huhne’s appearance but “fat” wouldn’t have been one
that sprang into my mind.
- February 6, 2013 at 20:25
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Moor, he also accused him of being ‘autistic’ which must surely be
some offence these days. But the slurs were designed to wound, not to be
accurate.
- February 7, 2013 at 08:08
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@ilove the bbc
It’s also interesting to see that where in days of yore, I might
have called someone a “spastic” or a “mong” to insult them; nowadays
the bright young things insult one another with “autistic” or “gay”.
Thirty years of the shifting sands of politically correct phraseology
and nothing really changes in the hearts of mankind it seems….
Two pointss on the *fat* thing: First, with a mother so worryingly
skinny, perhaps Mr. Huhne did look fat to his son’s eyes. On the other
hand, if the son was in fact not sending thoses texts, but rather the
mother was (as a perspicacious contributor has suggested) then I can
imagine that perhaps she thinks *fat* is one of the ultimate personal
insults…
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February 5, 2013 at 20:19
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Financially Mr H will be fine, even if La Vicky gets half:
“The property portfolio he built up included two flats in Highbury, North
London, a house and a flat in Oxford, and a share in a house in Languedoc,
southern France.
At one point he was receiving an estimated £80,000 a year
in income from rented properties.”
That’s without the latest:
“last week he is believed to have paid £1.25million for a building
comprising a two-bedroom flat above offices in a Grade II-listed former pub in
Clerkenwell, North London. It is thought likely that he will live in the
apartment with his new partner, Carina Trimingham, while earning £37,000 a
year rent from the firm which has a five-year lease on the ground floor
office.”
- February 5, 2013 at 20:14
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I have two comments.
Mr Huhne was a millionaire when he entered parliament. I suspect he
probably still will be. So it is his political ambition which is in tatters,
his life is not ruined, nor I suspect will be his business career. No-one
really takes most motoring “crimes” seriously. It is really just a
tax/tolling/excuse for the Police to harass the rest of us.
Secondly, the points system is excessive. Trivial offences attract 3
points. If points were, for instance, graduated , or indeed 4 trivial offences
in 3 years was not a ban, perhaps we would see less legal challenges and less
“criminal” behaviour as people swap points. I personally have never done it,
nor had to, but I know of people who have, and while I don’t condone it, I
hardly think depriving people of driving licences for nonsence like being 5 or
10 mph over a speed limit or answering a mobile phone is proportionate. We
have a road network peppered with Gatso’s. Its really just a game of chance,
hardly a road safety campaign.
I dont recall having any speeding points for over 30 years myself, and
drive over 20k miles a year.
- February 5, 2013 at 21:30
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I couldn’t make any claims to sainthood on these matters, but I doubt if
you would find that the odd person or two who actually has been killed by
those speeding recklessly, or being stupid with their mobiles, thinks that a
few points on miscreants’ licences is unduly disproportionate. Not that they
can tell you, mind
- February 5, 2013 at 22:51
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Anyone who drives regularly can report on the nightmare of Sunday
morning or holiday driving when all those inexperienced motorists are
unleashed on the roads. It is a line we are being fed – rather like the
excessive airport security we now undergo to stop our grannies crashing
jumbo jets into buildings or hijacking planes with bottles of lucozade or
nail clippers – to justify the finger wagging. Inexperienced drivers I
would suggest are a bigger menace at 30 mph than experienced drivers at
far greater speeds in modern cars are. The deaths of any people are
unfortunate, but perhaps we could have a chap walking with a flag in front
of cars to keep the deaths down? The punishments are disproportionate to
the triviality of the crime. Really bad drivers still kill people – and
some have neither licence nor insurance. How does the disproportionate
points system prevent those incidents? But it does inconvenience lots of
otherwise law abiding people who make trivial revenue raising
offences.
- February 5, 2013 at 21:31
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I couldn’t make any claims to sainthood on these matters, but I doubt if
you would find that the odd person or two who actually has been killed by
those speeding recklessly, or being stupid with their mobiles, thinks that a
few points on miscreants’ licences is unduly disproportionate. Not that they
can tell you, mind.
- February 6, 2013 at 06:58
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Your point was pointless the first time, Ho Hum – repetition does not
enhance it…
- February 5, 2013 at 19:23
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The worst of it all was his vile claim on the steps of court “…but having
taken responsibility for something which happened 10 years ago…”. Chris me old
lad, you have done everything but take responsibility for anything. You lied
and wriggled and used the resources of the State to avoid any responsibility.
You invoked all sorts of bollocks – available only to the rich and powerful –
to try to somehow evade responsibility. And then when cornered and to avoid a
thorough gutting in Court, you tried to spin your to collapse of your
cowardice and cant as some sort of noble step taken for the best of everyone
but yourself. This would have been a Damascene conversion of the most unlikely
sort, you nasty wee turd of a man.
And if your Judge were to wander by and hear that bullshit, he might add a
few months just so you can sit and try to work out just what it is the rest of
us are cross about. That just was a spellbindingly stupid thing to do
pre-sentencing. It’s worth six month’s in chokey just by itself.
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February 5, 2013 at 18:05
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Great Post.
Spot on
Kind regards
- February 5, 2013 at 17:21
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Hormonal teenagers do make terrible calls and it is sad that this one
provided you with a little joy, Anna. I hope father and son will recover from
the kicking.
- February 5, 2013 at 17:33
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From my reading of this, I don’t think it did give her much joy, MTG.
And I can see why Splotchy might well wonder who should get any ‘points’
on their Twitter account for writing some of the texts
- February 5, 2013 at 17:02
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I find it sad that these texts are in the public domain.
I can’t see that they constitute valid evidence anyway. If the police come
across material such as this during their investigation then surely the
correct approach is to obtain a statement from the son, with the appropriate
warnings regarding perjury. That statement can then be used in court and the
son subjected to proper judicial investigation.
I hope son and father will eventually be reconciled but it will probably
take an apology from the father first.
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February 6, 2013 at 20:29
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Jim, Huhne himself put these texts into the public domain – in a last
ditch attempt to get the case slung out. Imagine THAT if you will – he
voluntarily exposed his son’s anger and hatred at the most traumatic time of
his young life – so that HE could get away with his lies, again!
- February 5,
2013 at 17:02
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Actually this piece is the first thing that made me sympathetic to Huhne.
It’s possibly the one thing I will remember from this news item – the texts
his son sent to him.
“if a man can induce his son to loathe him so profoundly”
How do we suppose Huhne, or any father, could “induce” his son to loathe
him? I’ve no idea what he was like as a father. I only know that kids have
their own personalities, that a parent feels helpless to try and shape them. I
can’t imagine what it must feel like to get texts like that from your own
child.
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February 5, 2013 at 17:52
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It is only natural that a son should support his mother whom (the son)
considers has been so cynically betrayed by the one she originally
loved.
- February 5, 2013 at 18:21
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Also, his text replies to his son are so lacking in feeling of any
kind, I did begin to wonder if perhaps he had a SPAD write them for
him!
- February 5, 2013 at 18:42
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Or a communications consultant?
- February
6, 2013 at 09:19
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How can you say that if you don’t know the family? I don’t want to
judge the family and the no doubt complicated scenario that led to this. I
have some idea of where the son’s feelings are too, but spare a thought
for a father receiving this from the most important person in his
life.
I can already hear the replies – judging Huhne as a father. I’d repeat
that judging another person’s family relationships is impossible – we
can’t know nearly enough to do so. There may be other dynamics with the
mother. Supporting her does not entail sending hurtful messages to the
father, who may need support too.
- February 5, 2013 at 16:34
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Ms R. Not quite sure why, given the plethora of personal hypocrisies
available to choose from, you have included the reference to Milligan. Is
there something that he personally was standing out for that merits his
inclusion? -ie, as opposed to the subsequent ‘Back to Basics’ campaign and
other media dross that followed on from his death, which he, of course, was
hardly in a position to pass comment on, or deny that it ever happened
Don’t need any detail, just some pointer will do, or we could be,
erroneously, I’m sure, left with the lingering notion that this might possibly
be merely be your own version of ‘telling others how to live their lives’
- February 5, 2013 at 15:15
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“I disagree; if a man can induce his son to loathe him so profoundly, he
has no place telling the rest of us how to live our lives.”
A son who was living with his mother – a mother who (according to today’s
reportage) was determined to destroy her child’s other parent at all costs.
And who presumably had access to the boy’s mobile phone, given that she leaked
the text contents to the press. (Incidently, given she had access to his
phone, it’s interesting to note that the May 11th texts which are so crucially
relevent to the case are couched in a different, more adult tone than the rest
of the texts. Peter Huhne declined to give a police interview, but if he had,
I wonder if they would have asked him whether he was responsible for that
text?).
Essentially Anna, this is a hideous marital spat and a horrible example of
the nasty things two adults will do to each other, despite 25 years and a
clutch of children. It shouldn’t be a prison matter (although the pair of them
should fork out for the expense of the investigation and trial). I don’t
condone the speeding and points-switching, but I know dozens who have done the
same, albeit thankfully far less who have destroyed their families in such a
way.
- February 5, 2013 at 16:03
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* I know dozens who have done the same, albeit thankfully far less who
have destroyed their families in such a way. *
Names please….. licks pencil………
As the fake Sheikh has proved, the only way sometimes is the informant
way. All a rather crap way to live our life.
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February 5, 2013 at 17:47
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” …..It shouldn’t be a prison matter”
Oh yes it should! A minister of the Crown, one whose parliamentary
decisions affect the budgets of every man, woman & child in the
UK, must be seen to be not a liar & perverter of justice.
- February
6, 2013 at 09:15
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Sadly true, about parents using their kids to hurt the former spouse
after a divorce. I’ve seen this sort of thing more than once, and awfully
close to home on one occasion. What that says about either parent –
particularly the manipulative one, I do not know.
Interesting piece on this phenomenon from Jenny McCartney: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9060851/Our-fathers-are-still-being-failed-by-the-law.html
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February 5, 2013 at 14:19
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“Here is someone who believes laws are made for the little people”. Sums up
so much, and so many.
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February 5, 2013 at 14:18
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Very, very sad, and all over a minor Speeding Offence, for which this man
has destroyed his career, his reputation and his son’s good opinion. He is far
from broke, by the way, and could have afforded a chauffeur.
His lies and
arrogance beggar belief, and his wife is a very silly woman. She also has
Perverted the Course of Justice. Would I have done the same for my husband?
Possibly, but only if it really mattered which this didn’t. He was hardly
likely to lose his job.
And people wonder why I stopped voting years ago.
So very few of them are actually honourable men.
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February 5, 2013 at 14:38
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“So very few of them are actually honourable men.”
The women ain’t completely honourable either.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/harriet-harman-gagged-auditor-in-mps-expenses-inquiry-6703451.html
- February 5, 2013 at
14:45
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I could have sworn that link said ‘Harriet Harman shagged auditor in
mps expenses….”
- February 5, 2013 at 14:55
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A bit of double entry probity?
- February 6, 2013 at 11:08
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Probably that as well
- February
5, 2013 at 16:24
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Elena, Vicki Pryce denies perverting the course of justice. Her trial is
underway.
- February 5, 2013 at 16:57
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Her legal defence seems to lie in the fact that she was a wifey at the
time and so could be *coerced* by the brute…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21333624
Modern women
……..
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February 5, 2013 at 21:34
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One hears on the vine that the ‘victim’, Ms Price, is now consorting
with one Dennis McShane, disgraced former MP, currently under police
investigation for expenses ‘flexibility’. They sure know how to pick
‘em, these ‘modern women’.
But then she’s Greek and he’s Eastern European, both having ditched
their original names in order to sound more English – coincidence again
? You can fool some of the people some of the time……..
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February 5, 2013 at 21:44
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Wonderful! There are just so many varieties of dog whistles there,
all just waiting to be blown to bring the barking hordes of little
England howling into both the night and the electronic ether, that, if
we have any luck at all, most of the lunatics who write regularly for
the Daily Mail will be so overwhelmed by the choice that they might
have a collective seizure
- February 6, 2013 at 10:34
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Some marvellous stuff in the Mail today. Another triumph for
Investigatiove Journalism….
I
particularly love the fading promise: “without seriously damaging
Pryce’s own reputation”
On March 1, 2011, Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott
told Pryce her claims could ‘inflict maximum, perhaps fatal damage’ if
she spoke openly. She said this would achieve the ‘dual purpose’ of
‘bringing Huhne down’ without seriously damaging Pryce’s own
reputation in the process. Pryce replied that she was unsure whether
to publish the explosive story before or after her divorce was
finalised.
She added: ‘So I need reassurance that it would indeed
bring Huhne down. I have no doubt, as I really want to nail him. More
than ever actually, and I would love to do it soon.’ The two women
then secretly recorded four phone calls between Pryce and Huhne as
they tried to get the politician to incriminate himself. Mr Edis told
the court Huhne ‘did not fall for it’ and the calls simply showed two
‘manipulative’ people ‘trying unsuccessfully’ to manipulate each
other.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274103/Chris-Huhne-s-scorned-wife-Vicky-Pryce-called-lover-man-hatched-plot-destroy-him.html#ixzz2K776xw42
What dreadful people. If I was the son I’d divorce them both….
- February 8, 2013 at 17:14
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Re. the legal defence:
I’m guessing this somewhat archaic
“coercion of the wife” law is not available to those who only
co-habit?
“Pryce, clutching a pack of tissues, returns to the dock as the
morning’s proceedings come to an end.”
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10216014.Vicky_Pryce_trial___day_3/
- February 5, 2013 at 14:11
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The son caught between the mother and the father is where all the bile
comes from. There is nothing new under that sun. Let’s remember that all this
began when the wife let slip the tongues of war, when hubby ran away with the
dish-spoon….. shome mistake there shurely.
I was impressed to read that the son refused to co-operate with the police,
and dismayed that we only know all this because the coppers seized people’s
mobile phones and extracted the messages. Hand over your diaries girls. The
time is coming. The law is the law is the law and the consequences of all this
nonesense are so disproportionate as to beggar my beliefs. I did read on one
discussion board the comment that Huhne had done nothing so dreadful as
“Savile”. The comparison made me laugh, because neither one seems to have
actually done very much at all, in the scheme of human evil.
What a censurious lot we are all in danger of becoming in our little
electronic furies. Twitter ye not, lest ye twitters be impounded.
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February 5, 2013 at 13:43
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This brings to mind the Marcus Enfield case a few years ago in Australia.
Why are educated men so stupid? Clive James wrote the following, very
enjoyable article about him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7967982.stm
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February 6, 2013 at 20:24
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Duncan,
Einfeld was a vile, ghastly wretch. He wasn’t past boosting his – er –
academic ‘achievements’ either. Nobody noticed.
His wrongdoing was uncovered by a reporter. He dened and denied until the
yellow coward went blue in the face.
Another champagne socialist who felt that laws were for little people
only. A man who brazenly commandeered good money to squander on his pet
projects. I hope that his children hate him for trying to drag Granny into
it..
- February 5, 2013 at 13:29
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His true legacy will be the bloody lights going out.
- February 5, 2013 at 14:08
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Yes, what will the sentence be for killing old people by making their
electricity unnecessarily expensive.
- February 5, 2013 at 20:40
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@me2
That is the thing about all this green crap that gets me really angry.
Vulnerable people have died and will die because they cannot afford to
heat themselves.
I suspect the attitude of the left green alliance is “the old? Who
cares? They probably voted for Thatcher”.
- February 5, 2013 at 13:27
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“…..historically we had great respect for our politicians; ”
Only through ignorance, Anna.
A very tightly controlled press, 58 years ago only the BBC, no internet.
Politicians (& every other walk of life) have to varying degrees of
severity, always been lying, thieving, adulterous scumbags. The masses just
never got to know about their misdeeds.
- February 5, 2013 at 14:02
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Absolutely, respect bred of ignorance – but that doesn’t change my
argument with Bryan Appleyard – they have to earn back that respect. The
idea that we give the likes of Huhne respect and in return get better
politicians defies belief.
- February 8, 2013 at 00:07
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I’m afraid that politicians (just like the media, esp. the tabloids)
are a mirror to what we the general public have become. We cannot demand
higher standards from our rulers, because we (as a collective society) are
not prepared to live up to those standards ourselves. Its no good
complaining about ‘standards in public life these days’ – the public
standards are a true reflection of the private ones.
- February 5, 2013 at 12:48
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I pictured a Gatso
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
And
coerced you in the plan
I wandered out in the EU for years
While you
just stayed in your room
I saw the turbine
You saw the whole of the
Huhne
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February 5, 2013 at 13:43
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Applause.
- February 5, 2013 at 18:19
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Seconded!
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