May 18th, 2011

Breaking: Essex Police To Talk To Huhne and Pryce

Essex Police have just announced that they will be interviewing the “key individuals” over allegations that Huhne tried to evade punishment for speeding. That would be him and his soon to be ex-wife then.

Michael Crick speculates that Clegg could have been on the same plane that night, and Guido has found the speed camera. Senior LibDems knew about the allegations years ago. How deep was the cover-up? Perhaps the police might like to call Clegg as a witness if he was on the plane…

Huhne was looking chipper and smiling when he snuck in late to PMQs. And no wonder, Ken Clarke’s mealy-mouthed mess today has given Huhne huge amounts of cover when he would have been the biggest political story for another day.

But he’s back up the agenda now…

UPDATE: The full statement from Detective Superintendent Tim Wills, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate:

“There are many lines of inquiry to be taken and the team are still working to establish if an offence has been committed. Obviously, this will entail speaking to key individuals identified by the enquiry team. It would not be appropriate to release any more information prior to progressing these lines of enquiry.”

UPDATE II:

That’s not to say the old bill can’t check the flight records.

UPDATE III:

‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello…


321 Comments

  1. 1
    Flashman says:

    Splendid!

  2. 2
    Chris Huhne says:

    Pointless

  3. 3
    Bled White Taxpayer says:

    Presumably, not yet under caution – that’d come later. Be interesting to hear Huhne’s choice of words in any media interview afterward.

    • 9
      Chris Huhne says:

      I cannot confirm that i haven’t been contacted by the police and that’s the end of the matter.

      • 28
        PCPlod says:

        this allegation was made before and was shown to be incorrect

      • 220
        Appropriate comments for every occasion says:

        “The matter is in the hands of the Police and other than say I will co operate fully in their investigation , it would be inappropriate for me to comment any further.”

  4. 5
    Stepney says:

    And what about Clegg?

    He was in the car too don’t you know…

    …an incipient disaster of mega-ton proportions methinks….

  5. 6
    Moley says:

    The IMF is in difficulties.
    Greece is in difficulties.
    Laws is in difficulties.
    Huhne is in difficulties.
    Clarke is in difficulties.

    Nothing else could possibly go wrong, could it?

  6. 7
    Burger with lies says:

    Luciana Burger on Sky. Fucking annoying fake. An upper class phony who was parachuted into a seat, tried to hide her personalised numberplate from the local oiks, and has fucked her way up the ladder, starting with one of the c unt sons of Blair, and now with Chucky Yomomma. And has a face you’d never tire of punching.

  7. 10
    Is it me or is it the BBC says:

    I just listened to Ken Clarke giving a perfectly reasoned explanation on rape crime to the BBC and also listened to a perfectly unreasoned interrogation by the news reader.

    Why is the BBC incapable of not seeing that a 17 year old boy shagging his 15 year old girlfriend with her full consent is not as serious as someone breaking into a woman’s home in the middle of the night and raping her at knife point?

    • 15
      Batty Hattie says:

      All rape is equal. In fact, to even think about rape is the same as committing the act. Maybe even a worse crime.

    • 16
      Big Jimmy says:

      Its never the BBC!!

      • 175
        ichabod says:

        Whatever happened to the BBC’s own once a upon a time rape suspect Nigel Wrench–you know the one who practised unprotected anal sex with casual pick ups ( the case enlightened many of us to the delifghtful term, barebacking) and partaker of illegal substances.

    • 19

      You must be in a parallel universe then!

    • 21
      EdMiliband says:

      Wape is wape. Wesign. Thoft on cwime

    • 30
      Dominique Strauss-Kahn says:

      Fellatio is not rape, what is the matter with zees Americans? If she was forced she would have bitten it off.

    • 40
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      I’m finding that line hard to believe – he dug himself a hole by fluffing his lines.

      How often do teenagers get done for rape when its slightly underage sex?
      Is that really what the proposals are all about? (A: No).

      • 57
        Logan says:

        Underage sex is still legally defined as statuary rape.

        • 73
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          Provide a link then. I was under the impression that was an american concept. A quick google suggests that might be the case under 13.
          A bold claim there, I don’t believe those words are used in english law.

          But never mind about piddling about with the words… do 17 year olds get 2 year sentences for rape of 15 year olds who have consented.

          • Logan says:

            Depends on if it is my daughter or not. If anyone had sex with my daughter under 18, the law would have been the least of their worries.

            I would have tortured them slowly to death.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            OK, so thats not quite a legal definition.

          • Dick the Prick says:

            18? Really? Bit harsh there fella. I remember back when I was 16 and going round the bird’s house and her dad took serious pleasure in ripping the absolute piss out of me; thought he was an arse for about a year and it’s only now really, that I see that dad’s have to get their kicks when they can – all good sport.

        • 75
          Anonymous says:

          Of course, but there is a difference. A question of degree.

          A 16 yr old sleeping with their consenting 15 yr old partner is common and borderline harmless.

    • 70
      Sir William Waad says:

      Didn’t he also imply that date rape was not really proper rape, compared with ‘forcible rape’? If so, he is overdue for the House of Lords. What part of ‘No’ is so hard to understand?

      • 76
        Anonymous says:

        No he dd not. He was trying to explain that date rape covers a broad church and is often the worst kind of rape. He went on to say all rape is serious.

      • 91
        Selohesra says:

        No you cant watch the cricket I want to watch a cookery programme, no you cant wartch the rugby I want to watch a home makeover programme, no you cant have another beer you’ve had too much already & no I dont want that in my mouth full stop – Mrs S & I understand what no means

        • 148
          Bled White Taxpayer says:

          Selohesra,

          you need to become acquainted with the concept of the potting shed and a second Sky subscription. Potting sheds are also useful for storing a small fridge with an adequate supply of beer.

          Can’t help you with the bedtime activities, apart from the fact that Mrs BWT knows which side her bread is buttered, and that too many noes rapidly equal an unusually detailed examination of the credit card statement and cuts to domestic allowances that Thatcher could only dream of.

      • 123
        Logan says:

        What part of no is hard to understand? The kind of no that is not said until the morning after.

        Hence why conviction rates are at 6%

        If the word no is said before initiating coitus, or even during, then the sex should stop. No question. refusing to stop in such an event is rape.

        If the word no is not said until the next day…. TOO LATE! it’s not rape then, it’s regret! there is a difference.

        • 232
          The truth that dare not speak it's name says:

          Believe it or not but some women lie about being raped.

      • 154
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        sir WW and date rape: he was teetering on the edge of falling into that trap. and indeed said some date rape was far less serious.

        I think Ken actually got something entirely wrong though: that average sentence for rape is only five years because usually its far more, and that lower sentences for underage sex count in the statistics for rape.

        So either the statistics don’t notice that its a different offence.
        Or Ken doesn’t know the contents of the 2003 legislation.

    • 98
      Anonymous says:

      The BBC reaction is almost as bad as Ed Militwat’s reaction.

      Ed seems to think that there’s no such thing as “degree” in any court case.

      Well, if you want to use that logic, Ed, maybe you should report Gordon Brown to the cops for fraud/theft for saying that cleaning his shirts is an “expense wholly and exclusively and directly related to his job”, and then get him put in jail for whatever the maximum sentence is for fraud/theft?

      Or, better still, Ed, why not report yourself to the cops for libel for each time you and your mate gordon (and your other mate, ed) did things like smearing the heads of childrens’ charities for your own political advantage?

    • 228
      Glyn H says:

      Agree; Clarke was perfectly sensible and reasonable. Much as I dislike his HeathiteEuro stance folk forget he is a lawyer and talked perfect sense at 1pm news and was given the BBC wimmin sqwark. Sounded a bit Deidre Spart to me.

  8. 12
    tory boys never grow up says:

    Don’t worry Chris Huhne and David Laws Ken Clarke is in charge of justice!

  9. 13
    Gordon Brown Trainee says:

    “Would you like flies with that?..Oh..erm..{bash}…{bash} Mr Grimsdale! The cash register is doing that thing again!”

  10. 14
  11. 26
    Labour hypocrisy says:

    Why didn’t Labour take any action on notorious sex pest P*es*o*t?

    • 36
      Amongomous says:

      I pretty sure he used some kind of rape on Tracey Temple.

      • 53
        Mock Tudor Builder with a big wanger says:

        Not rape. GRAPE. That’s how big she told me it was.

        • 93
          Selohesra says:

          Grape – you mean there was a bunch of them?

          • Anonymous says:

            Sickening to see Prescott doing the obligatory media rounds boring the world with claims about how his affair meant nothing and he loves his wife more each day.
            How marvellous it would be if Tracy Temple sold her side of the story….

          • Key in the wardrope says:

            She is sill coming to terms with it and is suffering from post traumatic stress at the thought if the fat unfaithful greedy glutenous c unt. It’s to soon for her.

  12. 29
    Charlotte Harris says:

    “Huhne was looking shifty and guilty when he snuck in late to PMQs.”

    If my client reads any further comments like that,he will seek a superinjunction.

  13. 33
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    “found the speed camera” … give him a medal.

    Are you absolutely certain there were no road works on the M11?

    • 47
      Captain Black says:

      Come on, this is the M11 we’re talking about.

      Of course there were roadworks. They started the day the M11 opened and they’ve been there ever since…

      • 84
        Bled White Taxpayer says:

        …and they’ll be on there for quite a few more years.

        I”ve always thought East Anglia as a region gets the shitty end of the stick from the Transport Department. Between the M1 in Bedfordshire and the M2 in Kent, there’s no decent fast motorway network going to one of the most productive regions of the UK. A1 = mostly 2 lane, including roundabouts. Ditto A12. M11 doesn’t bother with 3 lanes north of Stansted. A11 = 2 lane, then declines north of Cambridge. Norfolk is virtually cut off by tractors and caravans driving very slowly. And the rail links are worse.

        And no decent link between Harwich and the Midlands that would take a lot of traffic off the M25. The A14 is a disgrace, and a death-trap filled with continental truckers.

        • 162
          Gloria Hunnigans old pussy says; says:

          Can I stop there ‘Bled White Taxpayer ‘ …….not wishing to appeaR rude, BUT, you are boring the arse off me ! Please, go back to Victoria coach station and regroup with the other Coach spotters. Ta !

        • 177
          scratch and sniff says:

          no surprise – east anglia is full of in-breds and pikeys. why invest any money in a shit hole like that?

          • Hide the Decline says:

            Fucking rubbish university as well.

          • Dusty Miller says:

            177
            I take exception to that comment, we’re not all inbreds although I agree with you about the pike*ys their the one s knicking the caravans

        • 249
          Mark Skid says:

          So you want more of your taxes to be spent, Bled White, building more roads, eh? So that the heaving cess pool that is now London can drive to Norfolk faster? I don’t. Norfolk is one of the few places in England which is still whitey tighty, which is just the way I like it.

          • Bled White Taxpayer says:

            Well, I want my commute to be sorted out. Not necessarily by building new roads, although that is one option. Perhaps if less as a proportion had been spent on New Labour’s pet projects that benefit only their potential voters and more on proper infrastructure that benefits everyone, we could all have a better quality of life and all be paying less tax.

            Alternatively, and to redress the last thirteen years, I want those feckless fecking feckers who live in the north* to suffer while their taxes sort out the A14.

            North* = of Peterborough.

        • 284
          Dept of Transport (Labour Edition, 1997-2010) says:

          OK. Checklist on East Anglia:

          Likely to be a swing region when it comes to General Elections? No.
          Historically full of whining socialists? No.
          Part of metropolitan London? No.

          You shit out on all 3 counts. Next!

  14. 35
    caradog_minchin says:

    Where is Cameron’s communications guru?

    Who in their right mind would send Clarke on to 5 Live on the morning of PMQs?

    They must know that 5 Live is the platform for a bunch of self-promoting presenters interested only in pressing a “guest” into providing any out of context opportunity to whip up a news firestorm. No 10 should have them on a no-go list…if they have not, it is time to hire Campbell..

    P.S. 5 Live’s best show is on at 5.30am..!

    • 321
      oddly helpful says:

      Agreed, Wake up to twenty minutes of Money (and ten minutees of Sport that really belonged in the previous Morning Reportts) is a rare example of good financial coverrage by the BBC,

  15. 37
    Vicky Pryce says:

    When I first say this I couldn’t help thinking that this kind of minor victimless crime doesn’t deserve such a witch hunt. Then I remembered it was about Huhne.

  16. 38
    Sunderland MP says:

    Never mind all this bollox – why the fook ain’t the Lympic torch cumin to Sunnerlan? Fookin typical tory fookin lookin after theyselves

    • 48

      Ask Dave Miliband if he can drop it off on the way to the match.

      • 111
        David Miliband says:

        could we try and combine it with a supermarket opening – I’m jolly good at that – and reasonably priced!

    • 150
      Wanger says:

      Its not visiting Wearside because you Mackems would nick it. You lot are worse than those hubcap stealing, half-pikey scousers.

  17. 41
    Mishcon De Reya says:

    Was Guido Fawkes on Ryanair flight 7775 from Strasbourg to Stansted on the evening of 12 March 2003?

    That’s the flight under focus in the controversy over whether Chris Huhne got his then wife, Vicky Pryce, to take points for him on an alleged speeding offence on the M11 in Essex.

    • 67
      Logan says:

      What the fuck would that have to do with anything??? You could ask ANY of us if we were on that flight and it would make NO DIFFERENCE to this case.

      So here’s my alibi. I know I wasn’t on that flight, because it was a cool Wednesday spring evening, and I was attending a parent’s evening at my daughter’s school.

      Also I did not have a car as I was awaiting delivery of a new car on the 4th April 2003. I had just ordered that brand new car the day before this offence took place.

      • 82
        Anonymous says:

        Huhne doesn’t deny it was his/their car. Or that the offence took place. He’s wriggling over who was driving.

        His and his wife’s location at the time are therefore important.

        • 131
          Logan says:

          I am not denying that…

          Huhne also does not deny he was on the flight. In fact the only thing he does say is that the allegations are incorrect.

          We do not know what time the offence took place, where specifically it took place or in which direction the car was travelling at the time.

          If he was on a plane when it happened, it should be pretty fucking easy to work it out. If it happened an hour or so after the plane landed, then that would be a different matter.

          But the point of my comment was in response to Mishcon De Reya’s question about Guido being on the plane or not. What the fuck difference does that make?

  18. 50
    Gordon Brown says:

    I want to be head of the NWA.

  19. 51
    Sicknote says:

    BBC News: Chris Huhne tries to take pony on train.

    Since when was having a shit on a train news?

  20. 54
    Backwoodsman says:

    Question for you legal eagles : Its fairly obvious that there is a tape recording of huhne saying something sufficient to confirm the points swap took place. is it admissable in court ?

    • 60
      Looks like it could says:

      “In criminal trials the judge has a wide discretion to prevent evidence being placed before the jury by the prosecution where it has been obtained in circumstances where its admission might be said to have an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings. Even under those rules secretly recorded conversations, including confessions, have been admitted, provided the manner in which the evidence was obtained did not affect its credibility. The fact that the conversation had been recorded without the other party’s knowledge was therefore only one of the factors to be taken into account.”

      http://www.ryanlaw.co.uk/new_page_2.htm

    • 63

      If it is corroborated by a witness statement, by one of the participants, that it is true then why should it be different to any other allowable evidence?

  21. 55
    C.P.S. says:

    “That would explain why the press office line was engaged… Guido is trying to clarify whether Huhne will be questioned under caution.”

    We all expect Chris Huhne to give a “no comment” reply to questions put to him.

    Some things never change,Chris,do they ?

  22. 58
  23. 64
    Essexplod says:

    Guido
    Quite simply Vicky will be interviewed first. If her tale hangs together and she says what we think she will say, Huhne will be arrested and WILL be interviewed under Caution. The complication is that Vicky herself MAY have committed an offence-at least of keeping the matter hidden and being party to a conspiracy to pervert etc. She may of course only have done that from when she became aware, which could have been months later if Huhne put her in the frame and sent off her licence without her knowledge.

    If Cleggover was in the car, he too will be interviewed as a witness. If he knew that Huhne was falsely putting up his wife as the driver, even Clegg is discomfitted.

    This should all be great fun.

    It is very difficult to believe there is nothing in all this, there is certainly plenty of overtime for our team!

  24. 65
    I love Caroline Noakes says:

    That plane ride to Stanstead must be one of the most famous flights in history now. Must be a ‘who’s who’ in terms of the passenger list. Bit of an Hindenburg ending for Chris H. though!

    • 96
      Steve Miliband says:

      Full of second rate MEP’s

    • 100

      ..I was flying. With Maddie as Co-pilot.
      Then there was Lord Lucan, Victor Grayson,Glenn Miller, Buster Crabb and Susie Lamplugh.

    • 117
      Moley says:

      The worst part about it is that (as a previous poster pointed out) MEPs are automatically reimbursed on their expenses for a First Class air ticket; they all travel openly by Ryanair, and pocket the substantial difference.

      Dishonesty and fraud is institutionalised in European politics.

      The Head of the IMF has demonstrated the eventual consequences of that attitude.

  25. 66
    Why did my wall fall down? says:

    No cement.

  26. 69
    Save the environment says:

    I’m disappointed that Obama is going to allow oil drilling in Alaska. That’s a vile Palin policy.

  27. 71

    Tony Blair used to make it look possible to wake up, every day of the year, next to a dead boy and get away with it. Huhne is a rank amateur by comparison.

  28. 72
    Little Did he know says:
  29. 77
    Arthur Daley says:

    I am now able to publish Chris Huhne’s advert for the sale of his motor car

    Modified DeLorean DMC-12 £800 ono

    Type: Light-alloy 90deg V6, with overhead camshafts.
    Displacement: 2.85 liters (174 cubic inches)
    Bore & stroke: 91x73mm
    Compression: 8.8:1
    flux capacitor
    Block type: Light-alloy with cast iron cyl. liners.
    Cyl. heads: Light-alloy, cross-flow, hemi-chambers.
    Cooling system: Water/Ethylene Glycol, radiator forward with twin thermostatically controlled fans
    Fuel system: C.I.S. nuclear reaction generating 1.21 gigawatts, Bosch K-Jetronic Ignition system, Breakerless, electronic/Bosch.
    Emission control: Lambda Sond/catalytic, plutonium nuclear fuel.
    top speed 88 mph
    NO TIME WASTERS

    • 101
      Great Scott! says:

      Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?! I thought you opposed nuclear power.

  30. 78
    Louise Bagshaw is cute says:

    Adam Boulton quite rightly told Yvette Balls earlier that it was Labour who introduced early release for offenders regardless of the gravity of their crime. She didn’t like that one bit.

    • 128
      Woodward and Bernstein says:

      Well done Adam.
      Good to see a journalist remembering what their job entails.

      • 134
        Logan says:

        Yup good work… I seem to recall labour releasing murderers, rapists and terrorists too.

    • 180
      Gordon's Cookery Tips says:

      yvette cooper doesn’t like anything…her nostrils get ever higher as she tries to stare down those that ridicule her

    • 188
      Anonymous says:

      There was a reason for labour wanting to release them early; most murderers, rapists, terrorists (and most especially benefit fraudsters) are the type of people that would vote labour, and they can’t (yet) vote whilst serving a substantial prison sentence.

      They let them out early because most of them were labour voters. It’s got nothing to do with the usual wishy-washy liberal/lefty “let them all out, they’re all gods’ lovely children” mentality.

      It was about votes. It’s always about votes. When it’s not about votes directly, then it’s about money where the money is about getting more votes.

      Labour are evil bastards that’d happily cut the head of a live baby duckling on national tv if there was a vote in it.

      • 266
        Dusty Miller says:

        + 100000000000000000000000000000000000000

      • 297
        Anonymous says:

        “Labour are evil bastards that’d happily cut the head of a live baby duckling on national tv if there was a vote in it.”

        as was demonstrated with perfect clarity when Ed Miliband falsely said that the tories wanted to free all violent rapists (and then the BBC also misreported what was actually said by Clarke).

        Labour/BBC saying that the tories are pro-rape just to try and get some cheap political bonus points via the BBC coverage that they knew would follow.

        Truly evil; as soon as you think that labour/bbc can’t stoop any lower, they then trump the lot.

        Using rape victims to help peddle your lies; it’s fucking evil, no other word for it.

    • 268
      Anonymous says:

      She started that interview sounding very measured and ended up sounding like the demented harpy typical of Labour Wimin.

  31. 79
    Legz Akimbo says:

    Once the filth start to question Pryce, she’ll sing like a canary.
    She won’t risk telling porkies twice so it’s bye, bye Huhne.

  32. 86
    Cynic says:

    With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan

    WHEN A LIBDEM’S NOT ENGAGED IN HIS EMPLOYMENT (his employment)
    OF MATURING HIS FELONIOUS LITTLE PLANS (little plans)
    HIS CAPACITY FOR SPEEDING ENJOYMENT (-cent enjoyment)
    IS JUST AS GREAT AS ANY HONEST MAN’S (honest mans)

    OUR FEELINGS WE WITH DIFFICULTY SMOTHER (-culty smother)
    WHEN CONSTABULARY DUTY’S TO BE DONE (to be done)
    AH, TAKE ONE CONSIDERATION WITH ANOTHER (with another)
    A POLICEMAN’S LOT IS NOT A HAPPY ONE

    AHHH
    WHEN CONSTABULARY DUTY’S TO BE DONE, TO BE DONE,
    A POLICEMAN’S LOT IS NOT A HAPPY ONE.

    WHEN THE ENERGETIC MINISTER NOT A’MINISTRING (not a’Ministring)
    WHEN THE CUT THROAT SPINNER ISN’T OCCUPIED IN SPIN (-pied in spin)
    HE LOVES TO SPEND THE TIME WITH HIS MISTRESS (With his Mistress)
    NOW HIS WIFE HE HAS CASUALLY DUMPED IN (dumped in)

    WHEN THE HUNE AFINISHED POINTING ON HIS WIFE (on his wife)
    HE LOVED TO LIE A’LYING IN THE SUN (in the sun)
    NOW AN ESSEX COPPER’S GIVING HIM SOME STRIFE
    AND A POLICEMAN’S LOT’S A VERY HAPPY ONE

    AHHH
    WHEN CONSTABULARY DUTY’S TO BE DONE, TO BE DONE,
    A POLICEMAN’S LOT’S A VERY HAPPY ONE (happy one).

  33. 90
    Chris Huhne needs a flux capacitor to escape says:

    When this baby hits 88 miles an hour, I’m gonna be in serious shit.

  34. 95
    Mickey Dunn says:

    Anyone out there wanting to stake £30,000 to win £10,000……..It’s buying money folks.

    Next Cabinet Member to Leave

    Chris Huhne 1/3
    Ken Clarke 2/1

    • 124
      Smarkets says:

      Get it right you mong!

      Chris Huhne 1.6 £10 wins £16
      Kenneth Clarke 3.1 £10 wins £31
      Vincent Cable 6 £10 wins £59
      Andrew Lansley 8 £10 wins £80
      Liam Fox 12 £10 wins £120
      William Hague 12 £10 wins £120
      Cheryl Gillan 13 £10 wins £130
      Michael Moore 13 £10 wins £130

      • 173
        English Viking says:

        No it doesn’t.

        Hughne 1.6 £10 wins £6, with £10 stake returned, etc.

        One cannot include the investment in the profit, unless you are a Labour Chancellor.

    • 137
      Logan says:

      Either way, a cabinet reshuffle is now LONG overdue. Get the beardy weirdy sandal wearers out of the cabinet. Get the climate changers, the limpwristed liberal soft on criminal Europhallic EU loving traitors out of the cabinet.

  35. 106
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    I knew of a lawyer/barrister who got fined for doing over 100 on the M3 or M4.

    As soon as he waas presented with the fine, he pulled out all the stops and got one of his cronies to appeal.

    He got off.

    What makes anyone think Chris Huhne will actually be prosecuted?

    • 273
      The Law is for the Little People Just like Socialism. says:

      I have every confidence in our impartial system of Justice, one need only think of Jackie Smith being hauled to court on fraud charges along with McNulty and remember Blunket getting done for that travel warrant theft, and Prescott for misconduct in Public Office and errrrr hold on, they didn’t, right enough you have a point.

  36. 107
    welsh assembly says:

    Two LibDems elected to the new Welsh Assembly have been found to be disqualified by virtue of their membership of certain public bodies. The Party called this a technical breach, but the law is not that easy (their election is “void”) and a vote scheduled for this afternoon to make it alright has been pulled. What is it about these people that they want to make laws, but find it hard to obey them?

  37. 109
    Postlethwaite says:

    All this bruhar for a fifty quid fine and an admonishment not to do it again.

    Yawn . . .

    • 202
      Mike Hunt says:

      Don’t forget the victim surcharge….

    • 276
      The Law is for the Little People Just like Socialism. says:

      You may find the possibility that a law maker may be a proven liar inconsequential but I don’t.

  38. 110
    Chris Cunt says:

    I’m a huhne.

  39. 115
    BenchBacker says:

    Huhne is a lying, deceitful, scumbag. He was hated by his colleagues at the Grauniad and the Indy. He broke up Vicky Pryce’s first marriage. (She had two little girls by her first husband – the man who Huhne pushed aside). He sponged off Pryce and used her money to get out of journalism and into being a tipster. Then made money as a city slicker using inside info and relationships from being a financial journalist.

    He lied that he’d never use his family for political purposes and then used photos and gushy text in his 2010 election literature – while he was deep into his affair with his bi-sexual press aide. Who incidentally was the person who sent out the “Calamity Clegg” dossier (Huhne claimed is was an over-zealous junior volunteer and he had zero knowledge of it.)

    He told the Daily Mirror that his actress mother starred as Superman’s mum in a Superman movie (she didn’t and she even told the Mail that her son was wrong).

    And he tried to close down a blogsite for revealing appalling details about his treatment of one of his step-daughters (both of whom refused to take his surname because they saw through him long before their mother did.) There’s a reason that Huhne is so widely hated. But no one hates him more than his two step-daughters Georgia and Alexandra. One of them in particular has especial reason to hate him, as her friends know only to well. That too will emerge in time…

    http://the–anti–chris.blogspot.com

    • 133
      what a bunch of weirdos says:

      Hmm. Very interesting.
      Except the coprophilia bit, which made me feel a bit sick.

    • 149
      A right bad Un says:

      So the penalty point thing is just the tip of the iceberg?

      • 174
        Gordon's Cookery Tips says:

        he always struck me as a bit of a limp lettuce not an iceberg

    • 204
      Fa Kin Su Pah says:

      I read the complete article.
      I don’t like myself very much.

    • 277
      Now there's a thing says:

      He sounds like the ideal type of charlatan to be heavily into the climate change scam….oh hold on !

  40. 116
    He may have been driving or it may have been her says:

    Huhne should have spoken to Christine

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-202833/Christine-Hamilton-cleared-speeding.html

  41. 119
    Anonymous says:

    I must say I find all this record keeping a bit nosey- How have the cops stil got the records they supposedly didn’t have? Not that I’ve got any sympathy with the Hoon, natch.

    Huhne may have leftie big-statist Nu Labour to thank for all of this, when the dust settles.

  42. 127
    anon says:

    So basically a good day for Dave. Huhne has been given one up the ass and now has to shut the fuck up instead of sniping from the sidelines. Plus, Ken has given Dave the ammunition to sack him despite his protection from the Grandees. One less ‘prison doesn’t work’ cancer peddling, tobacco nazi who wants to sell us out to europe. Win,Win.

    • 135
      only asking says:

      Is this what they meant by muscular liberalism?

    • 141
      Nothing will happen to Clarke however much the Labour Party and Media want him sacked says:

      Clarke won’t be sacked (he certainly won’t resign)for the following reasons:-

      1. He’s a very very senior Tory. To have him on the backbenches and a focal point for Tory backbench revolt would be dangerous for Cameron

      2. Cameron can’t sack Clarke,a Tory, and not sack Huhne or Cable,LibDems for speaking out of turn. If he did the resuult would be uproar in the Tory party and open warfare with the backbenchers (even though not many like Clarke he would be a causus belli)who are already dis-satidfied with Cameron pandering to Clegg & Co.

      So Clarke is safe whether or not he apologises or not the truth is that Cameron is in too weal a position to sack him and let Libdem Cabinet Ministers off the hook

    • 143
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      Funny, I thought the nazis were the ones who wanted to stop people smoking.

      • 269
        Charity begins at home. says:

        Cameron needs to abandon this ridiculous and unsustainable idea of increasing foreign aid.
        Tories don’t want it.
        Voters don’t want it.
        We can’t afford it.
        How can he seriously expect the electorate to accept deep cuts whilst dishing out billions to foreign countries-many of which are financially more stable than us.
        After the election he stood in the No10 rose garden and announced that the Coalition would do what was necessary for the good of the country.
        Increasing foreign aid isn’t.
        He should stop bothering trying to appease the Liberals- they’ve proved themselves to be disloyal. Just appeal to your core voters and get our economy sorted before pretending to be Lord Bountiful.

  43. 129
    Nigel Farage says:
  44. 153
    • 231

      Interesting TT. Firstly, women seem to be more sensible as they admit to nothing! Secondly, our system of points is, in my view, bad as it is quantitatively based and not qualitatively. I would scrap it myself. Most European countries, as you will know, have no such system. One of the many reasons why I emigrated having been a 30k plus driver for some decades. The more you drive the more at risk you are. Still want to see Huhne banged up though.

    • 263

      Іntеrеstіng ТТ. Fіrstly, wסmеn sееm tס bе mסrе sеnsіblе аs tһеy аԁmіt tס nסtһіng! Sеcסnԁly, סur systеm סf pסіnts іs, іn my vіеw, bаԁ аs іt іs quаntіtаtіvеly bаsеԁ аnԁ nסt quаlіtаtіvеly. І wסulԁ scrаp іt mysеlf. Mסst Еurסpеаn cסuntrіеs, аs yסu wіll knסw, һаvе nס sucһ systеm. סnе סf tһе mаny rеаsסns wһy І еmіgrаtеԁ һаvіng bееn а 30k plus ԁrіvеr fסr sסmе ԁеcаԁеs. Tһе mסrе yסu ԁrіvе tһе mסrе аt rіsk yסu аrе. Stіll wаnt tס sее Huһnе bаngеԁ up tһסugһ.

  45. 157
    Concrete Pump says:

    Hi Guido, it’s Chris Huhne, listen I need you to do me a favour! ………….

    This taped conversation is going viral on the internet.

  46. 158
    Gordon Brown says:

    I want to be head of the IED.

    • 166
      Clutterfuck says:

      you need a very large IED shoving up your chuffer box twat.

    • 178
      annette curton says:

      Did you ever manage to get a driving licence Gordon? or where you just too busy spending (oop’s) ten years getting PHD in Scottish fuck all in the 1920′s.

      • 279
        I thought University was about broadening the mind says:

        I’ll have you know my phd is a classes of political navel gazing.

  47. 160
    Rinka The Dog RIP says:

    The Liberals have form with dirty coverup attempts

    WOOF WOOF

  48. 171
    Robert Peel says:

    The Old Bill , generally ‘weed’ their files after 7 years. They are kept for that period as that is the time frame that a civil trial can be brought within. I’d say, that old GATSO camera evidence and any associated forms ‘may’ have been ‘weeded’ at the beginning of this year. If that is the case, it’s a no go for the CPS. I honestly can NOT see this getting anywhere. Sorry to disappoint folks !

    • 181
      English Viking says:

      Ahh, but you’re banking on the filth actually doing some work, on time and in the right place, instead of fitting up ‘villains’ and getting ‘favours’ from prostitutes and drug dealers.

    • 199
      Spank Sinatra says:

      The GATSO evidence is irrelevant as a statement has already been made by the registered keeper as to who was driving the vehicle at the time. The speeding offence is not in dispute. It is the identity of the driver which is at the heart of the matter and whether or not there was an attempt (even failed) to pervert the course of justice. No reason to be disappointed.

      • 320
        Bald Old Git says:

        the gatso evidence may well give an indication of the driver’s identity, in which case it is extremely relevant

  49. 172
    Desperate Dan says:

    I’d like to say thank you to the Queen for visiting Ireland on our behalf. It doesn’t look like a barrel of laughs.

    • 176
      Blight and Bogs says:

      Bloody awful place, that’s why half came here and the other half went to the USA

      • 182
        Sir Stephen bottyburp says:

        They did a nice job of tarmaccing my driveway …… bloody nice bunch of people, even if they do live in tin sheds on wheels., and have kids witrh their siblings. Who am I to judge?

      • 210
        Sir William Waad says:

        Dublin is a dump. The only decent buildings were put up when we were in charge.

    • 184
      Lord GaGa says:

      …distinguished lady at her best today at the war memorial

  50. 183
    Hackwatcher says:

    Without wishing to detract in any way from the importance of the story, your obvious relish at Huhne’s discomfiture is in stark contrast to the way you talked up his chances in the 2006 Lib Dem leadership election in order to make yourself a few bob.

    • 187
      Lord GaGa says:

      don’t kid yourself no-one even seriously thought the coalition was a prospect until the first televised debate catapulted clegg into the public consciousness. Huhne was a dead duck then and still is…as are several other libs

    • 196
      annette curton says:

      In contrast to our Right Honourable MPs who one could never accuse of trying to make themselves a few bob.

  51. 186
    Anonymous says:

    wheres billy is he dead.

    • 189
      Wow that was close says:

      having a spare ball removed from his back pasage following a rather unfortunate fall down a pair of step ladders whilst adjusting his yorker truss.

  52. 192
    Sir Stephen bottyburp says:

    He’s festering under my new patio , courtesy of some ‘cash in hand’ 4×4 ‘oirish’ types.

  53. 194
    Confused Bill of Portland says:

    Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arraigned Monday. He is accused of forcing the housekeeper to perform oral sex and submit to anal sex after he emerged naked from his suite’s bathroom at the Sofitel Hotel in New York City. The married father of four is accused of sexual assault and attempted rape.
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/dominque-strauss-kahns-accuser-inconsolable-alleged-attack/story?id=13621783

    Why isn’t buggering the woman classed as rape? If it happened to a man it would be classed as male rape.

    • 200
      from the very discreet opulent offices of the Prime Mincer says:

      uuuuuuummmmm…I’ll just do my lipstick…can I have a large one ?

    • 205
      Sir William Waad says:

      Same reason broccoli isn’t classed as cabbage.

    • 256
      Dalai Llama Ding Dong says:

      Oh come ON!!!

      He was set up by the Banksters, this is a classic honey-trap.

      http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/

      • 270
        Moley says:

        Head of IMF abducted by aliens and brainwashed.

        Its rather more plausible than the rest of the conspiracy theories.

        • 281
          Dalai Llama Ding Dong says:

          I see, so you think a black immigrant nobody has the power to have a plane stopped at JFK and one of the most powerful men in the world – who JUST happens to have gone off the agenda the last six months by outing the US greenback behaviour, and etc etc etc – frogmarched off and then disgraced by his dishevelled court appearance?

          You think allusions to space aliens help your logic? Perhaps they do, in your befuddled dimbrain.

          1. Strauss Kahn was “not following the program”.

          2. The fall of Strauss-Kahn could help Sarkozy to get re-elected.

          3. According to Joesph Stiglitz, in a recent article titled “The IMF’s Switch in Time” (IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in “Honey Trap” – by Mike Whitney):

          “The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets…”

          4. Strauss-Kahn was trying to move the bank in a direction that didn’t require countries to leave their economies open to the ravages of foreign capital that moves in swiftly … and departs just as fast, leaving behind the scourge of high unemployment, plunging demand, hobbled industries, and deep recession.

          Strauss-Kahn had set out on a “kinder and gentler” path, one that would not force foreign leaders to privatize their state-owned industries or crush their labor unions.

          (IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in “Honey Trap”)

          5. Strauss-Kahn said in an address at George Washington University last week (IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in “Honey Trap”) :

          ‘Globalization has delivered a lot . . . but it also has a dark side, a large and growing chasm between the rich and the poor.

          ‘Clearly we need a new form of globalization’ to prevent the ‘invisible hand’ of loosely regulated markets from becoming ‘an invisible fist.’”

          ( http://wcampaign.org/issue.php?mid=625&v=y )

          Strauss-Kahn talked of “a fundamental rethinking of economic theory… (a greater) distribution of income…(more) regulation of financial companies”.

          • Cynic says:

            …and at the time of his arrest several reliable witnesses reported seeing a flying disc shaped hovering object over Central Park,. This was clearly where the operation was coordinated from allowing an alien to assume the shape of Strauss Kahn and infiltrate the hotel to attack the maid. …….

          • the large one in the corner with one eye and a limp says:

            apparently after a drop of oral he gave her several up the kyber before lunching with his daughter

    • 257
      Moley says:

      What they are saying is that if this alleged incident had happened in France, it would have been handled differently and quietly hushed up.

      The French see that as a big positive, I seriously doubt if that view is shared by many people.

      The rock has been lifted on French politics and we can see what is underneath, and it isn’t pretty.

      • 275
        Name and shame them. says:

        There had been rumours for years about his predilictions- all hushed up by the establishment.
        Thank God we don’t have similar secrecy rules and superinjunctions in this country.
        Oh,hang on…

    • 289
      Dalai Llama Ding Dong says:

      1. On 28 April 2011, Liberation conducted an interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

      («Oui, j’aime les femmes, et alors?» – Libération)

      Strauss-Kahn told Liberation that he had strong evidence that he was being watched.

      He referred to Sarkozy’s Interior Minister.

      He told Liberation that he imagined a scenario in which a woman is bribed with one million Euros.

      This woman would then lie about being a rape victim.

      (Thanks to Mr. Friend’s Blog for alerting us to this)

      ~~~

      Thanks to Penny for bringing the following to our attention (Banker vs Banker – Dominique Strauss Kahn vs Ben Bernanke.):

      2. The IMF under Dominique Strauss Kahn has been planning to issue bonds that could compete with US treasuries.

      Countries and investors could buy SDR bonds rather than US treasuries.

      “It will effectively end the USA’s ability to print off the debt.”

      (Was IMF Head Dominique Strauss Kahn arrested over SDR Bonds?)

      3. “Unhappy with the U.S. dollar-dominated global monetary system in place today, officials in China and Russia and some economists have called for the enhanced use of the IMF’s SDR as a global currency – the belief being that, backed by an impartial institution, it would be more stable than the greenback, which is governed by national policies crafted to a great degree by the Fed.” (What Strauss-Kahn’s arrest means for the IMF.)

      4. From the Guardian:

      Strauss-Kahn allowed his staff earlier this year to attack the US, its main paymaster, for running a bigger budget deficit while others tried to reduce theirs.

      He also changed the emphasis of the fund’s lending from simply a means to impose neo-liberal capitalism on near-bankrupt victims, to a more sympathetic programme with less micro-management from Washington.

      At the IMF’s most recent conference in Washington, Strauss-Kahn stressed the failure of western governments to promote job creation as a means of safeguarding social democratic structures.

      He feared the riots in Athens would spread across Europe.

      Thanks to Penny for bringing all this to our attention (Banker vs Banker – Dominique Strauss Kahn vs Ben B…)

    • 304
      Dalai Llama Ding Dong says:

      Cynic says:
      May 18, 2011 at 5:26 pm

      …and at the time of his arrest several reliable witnesses reported seeing a flying disc shaped hovering object over Central Park,. This was clearly where the operation was coordinated from allowing an alien to assume the shape of Strauss Kahn and infiltrate the hotel to attack the maid. …….

      You should do stand up, that is fucking hilarious.

      Wit personified etc.

      Carry on!

  54. 198
    bird with small brain says:

    Surely, if Vicky didn’t drive to the airport, he must have collected his car from the airport car park. If you book in to the car park and pay, don’t they record your car reg, and therefore maybe still have it in their files? In which case – proof that she didn’t go to meet him…..

  55. 206
    Sanity Restored says:

    Ot but an IMF spokesman just said on SKY News ” The IMF is today very much about restoring fiscal responsibility ,to that respect I would say that the credentials of Mr Brown is not that strong “

    • 214
      gordon..yes that gordon...quite says:

      and he cerainly wouldn’t be giving the maid one up the scuttlebut either …more like prowling the corridors looking for it for himself as sarahs in martha’s vineyard nursing a jeroboam

    • 216
      Sir Stephen bottyburp says:

      What you just said. By the way, Billy is captive in my basement, and gives good head !

  56. 217
    The 'dingley dangley' sword of truth says:

    His paperwork shows the plane was scheduled to leave Strasbourg at 22.25 French time, and arrive at Stansted at 22.55 British time.
    The CAA have told Newsnight that it arrived, in fact, at 22.23, which was half an hour early.

    In other words wifey could have stayed at the LSE dinner until almost 10 o clock and still got there to pick him up on the scheduled arrival time. The fact the plane arrived early is a bit of a red herring as she would not have know that at the start of her journey. Planes do not normally depart early in my considerable experience of 35 years of flying almost every week. They have a booked lsot and then get lucky on a fast trip get on the ground quickly or stack and end up circling for a while

    The most critical thing in this is the time of the offense which if they were both there had to be after 1030pm but if it was wifey before 1030pm. How about then a scenario Huhen calls her when landed and says we are early I am at the arrivals hall and she then put her foot down going noth

    FLASH!!! oops

    Only saying

    • 221
      OAHAAC says:

      very plausible…was the camera north bound ?

      • 226
        Prof Brian Cocks says:

        Yes, it got a lovely shot of the Polaris too ! By the way, don’t pay your subsciptions to SKY this month as we are going to be hit by a mega asteroid tomorrw at 9.25 am.

    • 227
      Ken Dudd says:

      are you a Air Steward?

      • 230
        Bar Stuards Association says:

        did you study english ?

        • 251
          Mr Knob Stroker, Head of Pastoral Care says:

          indeed ……….. it is an AIR steward , an Hotel, an Hostel , and similarly ; the original poster is deemed to be “A frightful, ill educated , possibly working class individual who has no knowledge of, nor pride in his venacular.”

      • 272
        The 'dingley dangley' sword of truth says:

        Nope a passenger

        Don’t get me wrong I still think he is an oily lying little toerag and concealing the truth or at the very least being very evasive but if you have one shot to fire make sure its a bullseye.

    • 294
      Let me run this one past you says:

      Are you flying a kite Chris ?

    • 319
      Fellow Flyer says:

      Who else remembers him standing in arrivals on his mobile asking her to get a move on?

  57. 222
    Jilted John says:

    “Here we go…2,3,4 !”

  58. 224
    Ken Dudd says:

    after eating two rolls of Rennie chewables on monday evening I have constipation based sciatica

    I drank two litres of Innocent smoothie in a bid to move the blockage but all I did was ferment

  59. 229
    The real Chris Huhne says:

    I’m the real Chris Huhne. And I’m no hoon!

  60. 234
    Dirty voyeur says:

    Dear Marjorie

    I like to watch my sister in the bath , do you think this will effect my chances as a prospective parliamentary candidate ?

  61. 236
    Atilla the Huhne says:

    Lie and keep lying till you can no longer lie. That’s just how us Lib Dems roll.

  62. 239
    Atilla the Huhne says:

    And the stupider it looks, the harder you lie. Always works, yah! What’s that? You’re breaking up…too much static!!!

  63. 241
    NeverVoteTory says:

    Conservatives – SOFT ON CRIME, SOFT ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME

  64. 247
    special cases consideration unit says:

    Dear Midred,

    In your case no as she enjoys the attention

  65. 254
    Comrade Tebbit says:

    The trap is set and time is running out. A good disguise and false passport please.

  66. 255
    Chris Huhnt says:

    I’ve got a big brain, rosy cheeks and a whopping great sense of entitlement. The only way you’ll winkle me out is if my wife recorded my phone-calls and my girlfriend’s a lesbian. Let me rephrase

  67. 259
    Bob Crowe says:

    That hewen has gone off the rails no doubt, we’ll be convening this evening after we watch ‘The Only Way is Essex’ to consider our position.

  68. 260
    Bruce Forsyth says:

    What do points make?

  69. 264
    D Johnson says:

    Dear ALL,

    Since when was it conservative policy to support rape???

    I’m never voting for this party again.

    Disgusted with our govt (or lack of it)

  70. 282
    the real alternative says:

    Oh Chris
    You are a Huhnt
    And if you had a pair
    You wouldn’t be
    munching
    rug

  71. 283
    Nelson muntz says:

    Huhne is clearly fucked. He should go with what dignity he has left before he get’s nicked.

    • 287
      Algernon Dickhead says:

      he dropped the dignity suit when he started trying to convert his lezza assistant

    • 290
      Jonathan says:

      Agreed, but just like Laws, he’ll hang on and on. No doubt we will have the usual hand ringing from the likes of Cameron and Clegg telling everyone what a jolly good egg old Clarke is, much as they did for the cheating, coniving corrupt Laws.

  72. 302
    Cynic says:

    Depends on her age.

    0 – 16 jail time

    17- 50 possibly

    50+ sectioned

  73. 312
    Fat Ken says:

    fffffffffffffffffffffffffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttt!!!

  74. 318
    Fellow Flyer says:

    I think you will find that it wasn’t the fixed southbound camera that got the Huhnemobile, it was a temporary camera on the north bound carriageway in roadworks.

    The flight than night got in from Stasbourg nearly half an hour early. As we know, ‘Mrs Huhne’ had stayed on for the meal after her evening engagement, she should have only needed to leave at about 10pm to pick Huhne up at 11pm. Of course an early landing means less time to get to Stanstead which means putting your foot down….


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