What Did Huhne Actually Deny?
Huhne keeps referring to the fact that these allegations have apparently been made before and been shown to be untrue. When Chris?
Guido has been digging for days and cannot see where these specific allegations surfaced before the ninth of this month. He understands, however, that a former female staffer complained earlier this year to the PCC’s pre-publication and harassment service saying that false allegations were being put to her. Obviously, given the nature of the complaint, the PCC are being extremely tight-lipped here.
If Huhne is referring to this incident as the allegations being “made before and shown to be untrue“, then he is denying he pressurised a staffer, but that’s not the allegation being made by Vicky Pryce. Was yesterday’s TV denial, slammed for style, also void of any real substance?
Labour are right to highlight the fact that Huhne’s attempts to clear his name, while in hiding, are hindering his ability to do his job as Secretary of State. His attempt to avoid the House today has been crushed. Get the popcorn ready for 16.30…
pop
goes the weasel if hes been at it !
http://englandexpects.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-european-parliament-protecting-huhne.html
Lie Dems were never about doing things in government, it was about gaining power from being there and lining their pockets. Huhne now has a minister’s pension for being in office for a year- where would anyone get a pension for such short service???? Thieving bstds the lot of them. They will all end up, as part of the old boy network McClegg bemoans, in European numpty jobs.
Toffee poppets for me.
This is why I believe these attacks on Huhne is to save Nick Clegg.
Well one thing’s for certain when the Libdems are wiped out in 2015 the only one to get a peerage and lucrative job out of propping up the Tories will be Clegg
You’re out of order
Hows that work?.
Eh?. oh I get it, Huhne is just a getaway driver while Clegg robbed the bank disguised in a Maggie Thatcher mask.
So Fucking What? Whatever Guido’s past, that does not change the fact that Huhne is being a twat!
He is trying to protect the conservative government, no Nick Clegg no government.
2003 is past as well, Huhne also has a past like every one else, so even if it is true why don’t you all leave it?
Law makers cannot be law breakers, Perveting the course of justice is a serious crime.
What about expense, Osborne with prostitute and cocaine, etc?
This is why I believe this story is being used to protect Neck Clegg to protect this government.
The story is about a scorned woman having her revenge,how the fuck it protects Clegg i don’t know.
Clegg is week now could be challenged by Huhne for leadership of LD.
Well you know more than me,i didn’t know they were planning for a change of leader.
I bet if there was a photo of him when he joined, he would look like a teenager.
Just about the best thing that has come of this coalition is that we can all see what utter muppets the LibDems are when given an ounce of power.
Anyone who might previously have thought of voting for them as a protest will think twice in future.
How dare you, look at me. The very image of intellect, integrity, morality, probity and judgement. Perfect material to become Prime Minister and certainly eligible for the House of Lords, one day.
..and me too. Just the job as Lady Hancock of Portsea. Smashing makeover for Mayor-making today at the Guildhall. Great ceremony and even got Mike to sing the National Anthem. I’ve told him he has to be seen acting Lordly.
Can we have a Guido-Vote on whether taking 0.7% of GDP from taxpayers and sending it to non-British citizens is a vote-winner (outside the Grauniad-AlJaBeebya axis)?
+1
+1^10
-1000000000^0
1^10 = 1
Really?
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Eof the week, if he makes it dave and nick will look weak, but he has not been found guilty of anything? He should resign and fight his corner.
At least 4 now Billy has been knocked off first slot.
its a yorker that did it…..caught behind whilst passing balls between pockets
from the popping crease, no less
If you look at the times posted Billy dead heated .,
Nope. Must have been a few seconds in it.n On here if two post at exactly the same time, both get the same number
He should resign for cheating on his wife and being a tosser who “drives like a maniac.”
Who? Billy?
No. I’ll give you another guess.
Huhne doesnt half go for mingers doesnt he?
Will he get done for intimedating a witness as well?
Sad act Cameron looks weak trying to keep Hunhe in especially after the Lib Dem decimation across the country, the people couldn’t give two shits about the Lib Dems, kick the fucker out, assert some authority Cameron no one will miss him.
as and when a re-shuffle comes along he will no doubt exercise his perogative to shuffle accordingly
But doesn’t the “Coalition Agreement” specify the number of LibDem Cabinet and Ministerial positions ratio and the Ministeries allocated to LibDems ? And that Clegg puts the names forward for LibDem Ministers NOT Dave as per agreement ? So Dave will have to ensure that there are the requisite number of LibDems still in Cabinet and whether Huhne is sacked is down to Clegg not him…so Dave is stuffed
Correct. Dave has to get Clegg’s approval to sack a lib-dem minister.
It is an understandable demand from the libs though. With so few members, they did not want to have all their MPs rotated through government, being sacked on small disagreements, resulting in them all being on the back-benches, and out of Government, after six months.
However it is now making Cameron look like a dick!
Although Osborne is also doing that.
Yesterday the Government agreed to give billions to the Portugal bailout.
Today the Government agreed an insane climate change policy wrecking any chance of rescuing and growing the economy. (unless a miracle technology can be discovered and utilised as efficiently as carbon based fuel).
The tories are not behaving like a party who want to win the next election.
One term is long enough for to organise long-term investments and post-No10 sinecures.
Being PM is a terrible job – only lunatics like Brown actually want to keep doing it
The people keeping Nick Clegg propped up as leader of the Lib Dems are the Tories.
True
Sound policies for a better Britain
If I were Dave I’d be playing the long game. Let Huhne twist and turn, let Cable make an arse of himself. Every bad headline for them weakens them further and makes them more dependent on him, and all the more likely to split or be wiped out in 4 years’ time.
I don’t think that Dave is particularly Conservative (just as Blair wasn’t a socialist), but I think he’s smart enough to squeeze political advantage out of it.
I think you will find Bliar was indeed a socialist, not a Marxist socialist of course, rather a corporatist ‘progressive’.
In the thirties and forties, they were known as Fascists. The seemingly neutral terms the ‘third way’ and ‘public, private, partnership’ are adaptions of Fascist slogans from that time also.
sack the turd. call a general election and go for an overall majority. Come on Cast-Iron wot r u waiting 4 ?
Call an election!!??!
Sod off!! Have you seen the wine cellar in No10?
I’m staying put until I’ve sorted out a few cushy euro jobs for my retirement.
But flashman, we’ve downgraded many of the wines in a PR exercise dreamt up by Steve Hilton…no flashman no….not the face!
Well, all the best stuff was quaffed by Tony and Cherie – they really did have a damn good plunder.
We can’t afford to replace that – hence the cover story from Gus – but there are still decent pickings to be had.
Why the heck would we want Dave back?
He is closer to Harriet Dromey in political beliefs than Maggie Thatcher.
No, that is the last time I ever vote Conservative – he has let the whoile country down.
We wanted a leader who supported us, the British, not an heir to Blair focussed on overseas and his “legacy”.
Stuff the Tories – vote UKIP.
Agreed- Cameron is a fucking spineless public school c un t. He’s a fucking joke. That fucking climate change bollocks of a plan will fucking destroy this country, and he should have told Osbourne to tell the Euro lot to fuck off. He’s utterly fucking useless.
I don’t know if any Tory mandarins read this blog, but if they do- I am (the foul mouthed rants on here notwithstanding) the kind of bloke you should be recruiting. I’ve got a few bob, time on my hands, and would get stuck in and make some pretty substantial donations.
But you won’t get a red cent from me or one second of my time until you get rid of this fucking useless fucking jizzhead and his whole rotten gang. They’re even worse than the last fucking lot. They are going to bring ruination on this once proud nation.
But is it possible to reverse the undoubted decline now. Its been downhill since 1939 (stupid pact with Poland), even Thatcher was spoilt by pissing on Rhodesia, licking Reagans arse and spending North Sea oil too fast.
God help us.
Sadly, I have to agree with what you say.
This country is fucked with this bunch of pussies in charge.
Does this buff Huhne not know there is no double jeopardy rule any more? (Ta, nu liebore)
Regret to say,but Chris Huhne is now a laughing stock and his position is clearly untenable.
Which MP will have the guts to shout “Resign” first ????
Why regret? Rejoice. A more openly ambitious yet talentless oaf has not been seen for some time. He’s also an ex-socialist so presumably joined the Lib Dems in a calculated move as it offered better prospects as it wasn’t controlled by the Caledonian mafia. We could probably infer that Mandy, Brown, Blair or John Smith had objected to him or he wasn’t given the full respect that he thinks he deserved. There are quite a few stories here I think. If I could be arsed i’d probably try and find out but my left knacker needs scratching and Countdown’s on in a bit…..mmmm…..Rachel….
“joined the Lib Dems in a calculated move as it offered better prospects”
So much wrong with that, I don’t know where to start. I suspect most Lib Dems are still in shock they actually made it into government.
offered better prospects as it wasn’t controlled by the Caledonian mafia.
What Ming and Charlie “make that another bottle of whisky” Kennedy.
What about
Typo skills crap…………..
I was a laughing stock for years and years. Now I’m a Lord.
And still a laughing stock.
oh dear – if that many people dont believe him then how can he be a Minister anyway?
Overweight welfare claimants in the US state of Arizona face paying $50 (£31) fines if they don’t follow a dietary regime laid down by their doctor. Is that fair?
Yes.
Half of the HOC and Lords would be fined. Hence the lack of fatty discrimination laws over here yet.
I done 15 months in the pokey and had to wear a pot full of shite on my head , but my integrity is still intact innit ? Is dat fair ?
Taking a poking in the shitta for 15 months has no integrity innit
Bonkers !
Ha! Lovin’ your work!
Is getting fat off the backs of other peoples wages fair?.
Of course it is!
Yes. I saw summat in the paper that said being overweight would in the future be socially unacceptable in a world where so many are hungry.
Stop those bleedin Africans breedin’ and ah can have all the pies ah like. Eh Tracey? You want some of that Yorkshire stuffing again eh?
Yes.
More windmills, we must have more windmills.
The only ones I’ve seen are rotating backwards, sucking power from the grid and feeding it to the winds. They forgot the non-return valve
Valves? I thought they had diodes these days.
what do you put on smelly electronics
diodeorant…..
That’s why I’m only the mate
I’ve got a dildo in my valve
Oh that was you Simon, doesn’t surprise me at all. Just don’t call me a friend on TV anymore. By the way happy 60th birthday today. I have bought you a dildo for your birthday present.
I hate the bloody things. When I’ve been nurturing radioactive uranium and thorium for billions of years it really pisses me off when the humans turn to the Sky God for their pathetic ‘electricity’.
Tell me about it. I had to blow up a whole star system just to create some Uranium atoms, and what do you do? Just let them decay away in the ground. What a waste.
Almost all the energy that live on earth has ever used has come from Frith.
Oi there lad El-Ahrairah. Get in my pie.
I am not particularly edible and cotton based life forms do not recognise that false prophet.
You’re not mah Monkeh!
A criminal in charge of climate change, How apt!
If you do a little digging around the ‘climate change’ enrichment industry, you will find all manner of criminals, mafia cartels, highly dubious bankers and of course, viscerally greedy former and present politicians.
I’m pointless
But you shouldn’t be….
Clegg is too weak to give “Elbows” Huhne the heave-ho – Huhne knows where all the bodies are buried. The giant ego will not be satisfied with a back bench revolt without stirring the pot, so if he’s gotta go, he’d better be doing a stretch at Her Maj’s pleasure or else become High Commissioner to Rumbabwe; I’d say about 4 years should do.
Chill ….If you fancy a spot of gardening leave till it all quietens down Chris, You can help me out in my ‘special garden’ man !
At the end of the day, it’s the night
A very sub standard effort i’m affraid, please re-write and submit to me by the end of the school day.
During the Arctic summer, there ain’t no night Gordon.
I like to wake up to the Artic Rolls
Get yer own lad. They’re mine. You can have the Arctic Monkeys. Again in the back of a Transit.
Who is the fat kid outside No. 10?
Tha’s you’re good mother lad. Now take the Jag on the left and bring me back a curry house.
Can I request a change from “GuidoGov” to “YouFawkes” in future? Sounds ruder.
Have the Lib Dems really got 141 people that support Hunt ?
No – he leant on people to take their votes for him…
Have the Lib Dems really got 141 people that support them ?
It’s not like he’s ruined a country’s economy with misguided egocentric principles.
He should serve life for the crime of that hairstyle.
Gerry Anderson’s muse.
What’s happened to the use of the word ‘gate’ attached to every scandal.
At least he should swing
Huhnegate
Gatsogate?
Knobby Stiles? (subject to super-injunction).
The key question the BBC should followed up with yesterday… “why should we believe anything you say? – you cheated on your wife, your word means nothing”
Would tie in the arguments over the right to privacy & super injunctions.
I want to be head of the BBC.
Too late. Try becoming the head of North Korea instead or failing that the Catholic Church
Bring me the Head of the BBC!
The former Governator has admitted to fathering a child with his housemaid a decade ago. Hasta la vista, secret baby.
Skynet has gone live.
May 21st is our last day…
I recognise an internet meme when I see one, and this is one.
I’m the top meme
I think Chris Chan overtook you sometime ago God.
Assuming that the allegations are true, everybody seems to have missed the point that Vicky would be guilty of PCoJ too. They would also both be guilty of conspiracy. One assumes that she didn’t realise this initially. Surely someone has told her by now. Giving the police the evidence to jail her would seem to be somewaht foolish, no matter how much she is ticked of by CH.
if her defence is that he filled in forms and sent them off without her knowledge and only came clean at a later date, saying he would be sent down if she squealed she could claim duress and would probably get a suspended sentence.
Bur she can’t plead total ignorance. Unless she is also claiming that he snaffled her licence, sent it off, got it endorsed, and returned it; all without her knowledge. Pull the other one.
The police could well do nothing to either of them, anyway. I suspect her strategy is to damage his career with the allegations and risk an unlikely prosecution.
Also, if she was unaware, that would be a complete defence. inaction cannot be PCoJ. PCoJ requires an action of some sort (unless a course of events had already been set in motion by the accused).
I suspect his inevitable resignation will draw a line under the whole thing. The police won’t be interested.
Looks like she’s prepared to take that risk.
Excellent point. She has already said he filled in the forms.
Moral of the story – don’t p*ss the wife off when/b leaving her.
Perhaps she doesn’t care?
She’s got the nuclear button, and she’s not afraid to use it.
No coHunos!
As has been pointed out here and elsewhere, Huhne’s very weak statement that the story was ‘inaccurate’ (not ‘totally wrong’, ‘a complete fabrication’ etc) allows him wriggle room. (It may be technically ‘inaccurate’ that he asked his wife to take the points if she volunteered, for example.) His inability to make a clear and unambiguous denial is a strong pointer to his guilt. He is sweating it out in the hope that no definite evidence emerges.
a non-denial denial.
He’s toast – let’s just see how burnt he gets.
I hope some naughty MPs shout out appropriate song and film titles at Huhne. Prize to the first MP who says “Fast and Furious”.
yup , he had a Thelma & Louise moment !
‘Winslow Boy’
Gone in 60 Seconds
Smokey and the Bum Bandit.
Vanishing Point(s)
‘Bridge over the river cu**’
What do points make? (Sur)Prizes!
Huhne keeps saying that the allegations are “incorrect”, that is not a denial of the substance.
His wife has claimed he filled in the form and told her afterwards. Huhne might dispute that fact, whilst he did force her to take the points. That would make the allegation “incorrect”, but the substance of it “true”
If that is his wife’s version, it is incomplete. For her to ‘take his points’, at least three separate forms would have to heve been filled in; viz. CH’s S172 notice (naming Vicky), VP’s S172 notice (naming nerself) and VP’s fixed penalty acceptance (or guilty plea if she didn’t get a fixed penalty).
It’s possible he could have filled those in himself. OK, unlikely, but she can muddy the water sufficiently to avoid prosecution.
Vous avez laissé tomber le savon? Permettez-moi….
Whoa ho!
Tonight I will be a pirate of the Caribbean.
Had enough being an arse bandit then?
Brown James the Man Mayo Smuggler?
I’d like to be sandwiched between Sky’s Samantha Simmonds and Dharshini David.
Semantics, semantics and more semantics. Methinks that Huhne has been very very careful with his choice of words.
BUT, as we all know from the lessons of history its the cover-up that gets you shafted.
Collection for Huhne, collection for Huhne, please give generously for his snout fund…!!
Urm, what’s so good about 16:30? Can’t see anything of note on the HoC timetable.
ps. Is Huhne’s new ‘conquest’ a chick with a dick?
Fourth carbon budget maybe?
She is Fugly so i think it’s safe to say she’s packing a meat hammer.
Avram Grant wishing he had taken 3 points from Chris Huhne
He only scores own goals
By jove missus, what a beautiful day to chuck a £100 billion at a basket case economy like Greece and shout “How’s that for the biggest waste of taxpayers money in history”
And the 86 billion at portagul!
£32 billion for a railway line to fucking Birmingham. To save 20 minutes.
Why can’t they just get up 20 minutes earlier??
Exactly. And, furthermore, with ‘empowering technology’ – laptops, mobile phones – can’t those twenty extra minutes be ‘utilised’ to actually do productive work?
It’s not like the commuters are sat in traffic in their car – they’re sitting at a table, typing.
£32billion. Right down the toilet.
Pakistani ground troops opened fire on two NATO helicopters near the Afghan border on Tuesday.
Guess who provided the ammo? ………To both sides
Oh JUst Hang Him!
I am always in de Nile.
P k st ni ground troops opened fire on two NATO helicopters near the Afghan border on Tuesday.
Guess who provided the ammo
If Cameron wasn’t sh!t-scared of the fifth-columnists, he’d say who the true enemy is.
Good to see that the Queen is now back in charge of Paddyland and the army is playing her song and saluting her throne.
All she has to do now is evict the Paddy President out of her property.
She couldn’t get our money back whilst she’s there could she?
Nah, the woman is too busy signing documents giving Brussels even more control of the UK.
Silly me, I thought she was there to protect her country and country folk.
She has ceased to be fit for purpose.
You obviously haven’t quite grasped the concept of a “Constitutional Monarchy”
Whatever it is isn’t working.
I note the locals are jeering and (metaphorically) spitting in our faces.
We give them £7bn, they hate us. Cameron = tw@t.
Looked like just a few bovver boys and their slags to me.
The micks are a few years behind the times.
The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.
never be a lender or borrower be
Maybe we should just call in our loan – and when they can’t pay, take the place as collateral. It worked with Scotland.
Though on second thoughts…maybe that isn’t such a good plan.
Both Cameron and Clegg are in the chamber. Hope there’s fun in store.
may i recommend to chris huhne using my patented “simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play”
i can guarantee he will not go to prison after having denied allegations against him. after all, if you cannot trust a convicted perjurer….
Clegg making statement on Lords reform.
Why do they always leave themselves open?
http://www.refoundinglabour.org/lovechange/form/
They’re no longer in power.
Just noticed that with spell-checker enabled, that site shows ‘Labour’ as an incorrect spelling!
Well it wasn’t me !!
Parliament Channel
Why does Chris Bryant keep smelling his index finger
That would be telling!
Who’s the fugly moo next to Chris Bryfronts who keeps yelling like an idiot?
Sadiq Kahn doesn’t seem to want COE Bishops in The Other Place. How About 300 Imams?
I is liking your rhetoric , cool idea .Could you put it in writing and send it to Barry Tooke at BBC Points of view ? Inshallah innit ?
Is it just me or does Sadiq Khan have a face you could never get tired of hitting with a brick that’s studded with rusty nails lined with rat poison?
Replace rat poison with dog’s excrement.
Possibly replace Sadiq’s face with Chukka Umunna’s.
I don’t wish to be mean but Labour’s Angela Smith is fucking ugly.
She doesn’t look too bad, to my eye. Baroness Ashton, however.. ooh. There’s ugliness. In fact, if you look up Ugly in a pictorial dictionary, there’s a photo of Baroness Ashton, staring at you.
Oh shit. I take it back. I found this link with her photo on it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/7948079.stm
Goodnight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man whose career soon won’t exist.
I’m not happy with the idea that accusations from a vengeful wife should be discounted – as implied by Chris Huhne’s supporters. What’s wrong with a bit of retaliation? But of course the sweetest revenge will be when the new lover dumps him, which she surely will when the novelty and the ministerial gloss wears off.
Has he ever denied being a Hunt?
I love the way I type c*** and it gets replcaed with ‘Huhne’… I’ll have to start using that professionally!
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01722/huhne_1722789c.jpg
Who is expecting car noises when Chris Huhne gets up?
Ullo Chris, got a new motor?
Ben Bradshaw sitting in HOC with his legs wide open. Blatant advertising
Now let’s think. This is an educated, independent, feisty woman; not the nervous-little-mouse type. If he was driving and she got the points that means that (1) he filled in a form saying she was driving – perversion of the course of justice – and then EITHER he signed her name to another form accepting the fixed penalty and sent in her licence – more of the same and also forgery, and she’d be bound to notice sooner or later – OR she filled in that form in which case she is also guilty of perversion of the course of justice. (Neither of them can be done for conspiring with each other because they were and still are married.)
I know which I think is more likely and she is living dangerously. Anybody care to say why they should not both be in the dock?
I see maryriddell of the dailylabourgraph says gordon has a chance of becoming head of the imf for two reasons :
one – he’s not a chaud lapin and
two -he can rely upon his friends especially omaha to nominate him.
I suspect she’s living in cloud cuckoo land!!!!
Guido,
Has anyone looked into whether his car was parked at Stanstead on the night he landed? Isn’t he pretending that his wife sped from London to Essex to collect him from the airport? Is there any way to look into where his car was? Did his wife drive into London on that day?
The dog squealed on me. So much for my angelic denial and finger pointing about the fart.
Under AV Huhne would be equally as guilty as not guilty, perhaps he should consider changing the rules for jury decisions for FPTP?