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Chris Huhne - CPS Decision
The energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne will learn on Friday 3rd Feb his fate over his former wife accepting penality points on his behalf. Obviously if the CPS decide to press charges then he will have to resign and be out of the cabinet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16859101
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16859101
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The announcement will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
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Guido would not be happy if that is true, for sure, honestly.
Particularly when you bear in mind Essex is cutting one in ten of its police officers (including 25% of its senior officers) and having to make nearly £50m of cuts in the next three years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14253249
I also saw today the Met has 30 officers dedicated to working on the Madeleine McCann case - which cost £2m last year. No doubt jetting off to sunny Portugal regularly. I am sad for the McCann family but (a) this occurred in Portugal and (b) it seems totally disproportionate when hundreds of kids go missing in London each year of whom many are never found.
At a time of deep police cuts shouldn't the police be tackling real crime in their own areas - not chasing cases because of the media interest?
I can think of virtually nowhere in the democratic world that this would raise more than an eyebrow. I'm no fan of the slimy Mr H, but it's ridiculous how much time has been spent.
What happened to the long overdue proposal to raise the national speed limit, btw?
Of course it has the whiff of politics because whether or not he was lying is a political matter and he will not be fit to hold a ministerial post if he has lied. And if he has it will be up to his constituents as to whether he remains an M.P.
If the CPS say that there is unsufficient evidence then the rumours will go on.
Chris Huhne speeding out of the cabinet.
What do points make - The cost of your job...
No they were just stealing from us. It isn't the amount it's the dishonesty that matters.
If they don't charge him, his wife will look stupid.
If they do charge him, the Lib Dems will look stupid.
But charge him they must.
His wife (ex-wife?) doesn't strike me as the type who enjoys being made to look stupid. At all.
I think people have gone to jail for this, it's perverting the course of justice.
This is not trivial.
Like a lot of matters it is not the initial act, but the actual cover up that does the most damage. If true, why couldn't Huhne take the points?
At the end of the day the man is a politician and a member of the government. He should not be covering up or perverting the course of justice.
I don't want anyone in government who acts in the way Mr Huhne is alleged to of acted.
I am from Essex.
I want my money spent on tackling real crime i.e. robbery, violent crime and anti social behaviour which blight peoples lives in Essex and other areas - not on who committed a speeding offence on a 3 lane motorway in the countryside in the middle of the night when the M11 is empty. That whole motorway from Stansted to London is little more than a money making racket anyway in terms of unnecessarily low speed limits etc!
Essex police has at least 40 unsolved murder cases including child murders - shouldn't resources be focused on working on those?
http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/8151892.39_unsolved_murders_in_cold_case_file/
So I say again - what a waste of money!
PS I also dare say the cost of this investigation might pay the salaries for some of the 400 police officer posts Essex are getting rid of in the next two years.
Mr Danczuk is not the only politician indulging in this sort of behaviour. Scandal used to be about getting caught with your pants down, but now getting your opponents thrown in jail seems to be the new currency in British politics. Destroy them personally as well as professionally!
On TV once, I saw an MP who cited a recent case where a councillor was in jail and bankrupt because his opponent had sued over campaign leaflets. But the MP had no problem with all the litigation that's going on, he wanted to enable it to happen in a different way, by allowing Partys to be sued instead of individuals.
Although the slimy Mr Huhne may have got his just deserts from his wife after the way he treated her, it shows politicians are under threat of blackmail if every little minor fault from way back in their past can be used against them in this way. Let's face it, if Chris Huhne was on civvy street there's no way his position would be under threat by this.
If Huhne is charged, Cam and Clegg shouldn't sack Huhne, they should announce he can keep his job and instead they're going to sack incompetant ministers instead - (they could start with Lansley for instance), unlike the rest of us politicans almost never lose their job for being bad at it, just for falling foul of whatever "scandal" is in vogue.
If he is charged he will lose his ministerial post. This has already been announced. Whether he keeps his seat is up to his constituents.
Which one are you in TOWIE
It's not definate though is it? He won't have broken any rules. Apparently, if charged, Huhne want's to keep his job! That's so brassnecked it's funny!:D
I don't live in Brentwood or Buckhurst Hill - so I will never appear in TOWIE. I couldn't afford all that fake tan for a start.:D
But I have driven up and down the M11 many times - which often has 40 or 50mph speed limits on a two or three lane motorway. Not to save lives of course - but to raise money from unsuspecting motorists!
If he is charged he will lose his ministerial post. That's definite.
I stand corrected she is indeed the ex-wife. What annoys me is that the media whip up any small offence into such a frenzy.
Quite right. Members of the public have been jailed for similar offences, so it's only right that hulne should be treated the same.
I get the feeling the CPS are going to brush it aside.