Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce are up at Southwark Crown Court at 9.30. A full trial is expected to take place in the autumn. Huhne has consistently denied the allegations, but were his ex-wife to plead guilty, he could be in extremely sticky situation. What a lovely sunny morning…
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Ai Weiwei in China fighting the taxman…
“Under totalitarian rule, no one is protected by law. We will all be the same helpless victims. When a country insists on its lies, it’s time for an artist to bring forth change.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Camerloon Osbore and Imac Hunt should be in there with him
But not Bliar, McTwat and Derek Clark?
Or would that be too even handed for a loon?
God save the Queen!
thanks Dave!
Will no one think of the foresk, er, chosen ones?!
Good website to check if your MP is Europhile, or Eurosceptic.
One shock is how Europhile almost all tory voting intentions are, quite shocking compare to Labour.
http://www.brugesgroup.com/mpwatch/index.live
I must be reading this wrong, as most of the Tories I briefly looked at were minus figures and in red, indicating eurosceptic – or are have I taken Smarties again instead of my Sanatogen and ritalin combo?
No your not reading it wrong, i was shocked to. Apparently the tory party is made up of %70 eurosceptics.
You would not think so with that voting record
Just to add if they are in the minus and red they are Europhile, wanting less UK national sovereignty, and more EU integration!
thanks Dave!
thanks Dave!
I hiope Huhne is using the same laweyer that represented his mistress.
Nah, their best strategy is to plead not guilty and hold out, it will only be a matter of time before our Politicians pass some law or issue some decree based on an EU directive on human rights which will give them the required loophole. After all thats what our Parliaments for.
BBC online are reporting that she’s entered a plea of Not Guilty and will use the defence of “marital coercion” when she goes to trial. If so, then she’s saying she did indeed take the points on Huhne’s behalf but that she was pressured into it by her husband, a defence in law still it seems. If they accept her account then he’s F*cked I reckon.
He hasn’t entered a plea apparently as he’s “seeking to have the case dismissed at a future hearing”. Yeah, good luck with that mate!
You are TaT, SA-SNOT and other windowlicking nom-de-twat.
I claim my five pounds.
Who gives a flying fuck anyway?
Just out of interest, what is a flying fuck?
Mile High Club
Or what John Travolta had a long distance massage for, aledgedly.
It’s when your parachute fails to open from 25000 feet. you can hear the word all the way down to the ground.
By the looks of things if Huhne, Price, Hunt (if still inoffice), Osborne, Smith, and Cameron , B’Liar, Broon (the last 2 also had a sort of incestuous relations will Murdoch) is Broon due to give evidence as well, have legal proceedings it will be a time for pop corn because the courts will be so block up and the number of available briefs for other criminal offenses will be negligible.
The moddy botty strikes again saying unmentionable names
There speaks a person who knows nothing about quasi-judicial dynamics.
zzzzz boring my 2 year old could do better.
at least add pip pip on the end its soooooo funny
pip pip
Are we related by any chance?
The BBC will NOT be reporting this to the same degree as Jeremy Hunt as they have suddenly woke up to the fact that the weekend in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and are trying to convince us that actually they ARE royalists after all …….anyone for a “Butterfly Cake” ??
You clearly haven’t been listening to Nicky Campbell (500K a year) on Radio 5 who is a fan of the Scottish Nose Pickers and Nu Labour.
They’ve been banging on all morning about Hunt and putting the boot into the Queen.
It’s no surprise about Nicky “Serious face, lefty” Campbell – even his own birth mother wanted fuck all to do with him when he tracked her down.
What sort of man calls himself ‘Nicky’? It’s the name of a hairdresser or nail bar manageress.
Or a Serbian assassin who walks with a limp.
Three of a kind – Nicky, Ricky and Dicky..
£500k? Please tell me there is an erroneous additional nought in there.
No mistake £500k it is. Worth every penny eh?
is he paid via a limited company, by any chance?
He probably feels “underpaid” when he sees people like Graham Norton and Jonathan Woss “earning” millions. It’s a nailed-on certainty that he’s paid via his own company. PAYE is only for the proles.
Nicky Campbell I thought he fronted “WatchDog” with those two blokes who wear tight leathers and zoom around on a motor bike before jumping out of bushes on unsuspecting tradesmen….NOT act as an impartial(LOL) commentator of the news………..
I’m of the correct age to think of him as the bloke on the radio before John Peel.
If you think that Jonafon Woss was on 17 million , Lineker is on £2million + from our money , and Alan Hanson was on 1.5 million for working an hour a week(before he took a 500.000 pay cut) half a million is average wages at the BBC
my son has a friend who works there as an assistant office type , she started on £50,000
£50,000 for photocopying, filing and running errands? If only I’d known someone at the BBC. They probably pay the mailroom people £35K a pop. As a former Royal Mail postie, I could do that standing on my head.
That’d come in handy for Australian letters.
Yes, that was Ricky and Dicky…
If somebody eats a Butterfly Cake in London, what effect will it have in Brazil?
Ask SCO19.
They don’t get hurricanes in Brazil much, so it probably won’t do anything.
Pinch, punch…
For huhne, no returns
Fear not Chris, the Grand Master has fixed things for you with the Judge. Boaz.
B O A Z
J A H B U L O N
Good old Handy comes through again!
All this over some speeding points. It’s not like he tried to get off the hook for murder, or swindeling old grannies out of millions in savings. If you’re going to BS your way through a bad situation, at least do it over a proper crime.
And of course nobody questions the snivelling bunny boiler who is trying for some rejected spousal revenge – it’s actually no wonder he chose a hatchet faced rug muncher over her – at least he must have been made to feel more wanted and appreciated by a part time lip licker than a full time harridan. And I think HE”S a Huhne!
I can’t help feeling there must be literally a million couples around the UK who have done exactly the same thing (took the fixed-penalty points for their other half) furrowing their brow and wondering what the big fuss is all about.
Plod, the courts, the CPS, no c*unt is interested in who was dr*i*ving the fucking car because if you write and say ‘I can’t remember – please send me a picture’ they tell you to fuck off and just pay up. Ergo – they don’t care.
So if they don’t care why should Huhne (or a million other couples) give a shit?
Because he’s a politician.
I’ve read here one thousand times that he’s getting away with it because he’s a politician, but yes, I think its the opposite.
Many months or years ago, examples of this sort of thing were provided, and in pretty much every case, the points went to someone who was abroad or didn’t know the actual droiver. ie complete piss takes. I’d place a bet that nobody has ever been done when they paid the fine, and the point taker agreed at the time.
Point taken.
You must lost the bet. JB from Ilkley a few years ago got the wife to take the points and fine – it was discovered – prosecuted – he did time.
Agreed but they got Capone for tax evasion, it’s a means to an end.
If Capone had used his noddle and done a bit of tax avoidance, like the Guardian Group, they wouldn’t have been able to touch him.
Yes – after that case they got their accountants to dream up these never ending wheezes to avoid paying up.
Raving Loon, maybe they should follow your reasonong and argue that defence in front of the Judge and see what happens.
Really, it couldn’t happen to a nicer more deserving person.
Why do the BBC allow Liebore to spin crap. Harman wanking on about how Cameron gave Hunt the job over the BSkyB bid because he was pro the bid.
Except of course Cameron didn’t to start with, the job went to Cable who Cameron knew was anti Sky, it was Cable’s own stupidity and one of the Newspapers ironically that opposed the Murdoch takeover that did for Cable.
Why is he BBC incapable of pointing that out?
the key issue for me is that any decision by cable or hunt would only have mattered if they had gone againt the recommendations of the regulators. I imagine that hunt sais something along the lones of “it’s not me you need to convince” and then made some helpful suggestions as to what steps newscorp might consider to ease the process through the regulator.
Funny how BBC / guardian / indi / leveson all accept that noteithstanding cables sweeping and extremely prejudicial “at war” statement he could set aside his personal opinions whereas cable basically said he sidestep the whole issue by endorse the regulators recommendations and that somehow
Akes him unfit for a ministerial
last word missing – post
OK accepted…..Hunt came across as a bit of a plonker BUT coming across as a total idiot is of course no bar to a succesful Ministerial careeer or suggests that he should resign due to acting improperly in his quasi-judicial role
Apart from Ed Miliband, every politician has a view on everything. Trying to find one that did not have a view on BskyB would be impossible, even if most of their views would have been ‘I don’t give a fuck either way’
I think its because Liebour, BBC, Grauniad and the Mirror are in one big circle jerk and they don’t want it to stop.
And it is because the lefty BBC Gruaniad et al also have a large undeclared vested interest in seeing their biggest commercial rival destroyed. So they are not reporting factually, but are instead, engaged in a tribal vendetta.
The Leveson waste-of-tax-payers’ money thing is the 2012 British version of the Spanish Inquisition led by the anti-tory media, and Labour-appointed placepersons in the police and the judiciary. It’s a witch hunt. It’s a stasi-fest, grim, set-up, by the leftie-ridden UK establishment, to keep out competition which could bring balanced or possibly right-wing influences.
+1
+10
What business is it of government who owns a commercial broadcaster?
Why do we have a culture secretary? I think it was Goering (or it may have been Goebbels) who said ‘ ….when I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver’
Goering it was. The govt meddles in cultural matters for the sake of the propaganda — the parasites at the Arts Council, National Theatre, etc., etc., all promote the Gramscian line. NuLab, BluLab, LibLab: they’re all of the same stripe. The name of the game is control; these power-crazed fuckers will do anything to get it.
Sell BSkyB to Fox News as someone here suggested previously then see what circle_jerkers feel about that
What about me ?
You’re yesterday’s news
And hopefully not tomorrow’s chairman
Uddin is a bigger trougher.
Both cut from the same cloth though.
So it will all be over by christmas.
But which Christmas?
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Happens every day.
Phew ! What a morning ! Just finished my 200th interview about Jeremy Hunt. Next !
Most politicons are corrupt before they achieve power.
Beats working for a living.
Oh Boy! Am I waiting for today’s caption competition ?
No Polly – you’re actually waiting for Alfonso to bring you your chilled to perfection morning glass of Vernaccia di San Gimignano, and something “Tory” to vent your wrinkled,hypercritical and irrelevant spleen on, in print, for “Enormi somme di denaro”- now do one, schifosa.
Hasn’t your villa fallen over yet?
Boo hoo hoo
The cross-hairs…
Bye Chris!
Bang!
I’m afraid you will be proved wrong.
I have wished them both luck
Just the jobbie:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjay69/2859752939/lightbox/
Sounds like an interesting variation of the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” – but fortunately for Chris, Vicky Price is unlikely to know much about game theory.
Er unless she’s an economist or something…
Trial in the autumn?
Why the fuck does it take so long?
So he won’t spend the summer months in prison.
It’s very nice at Ford at the moment, pleasant afternoon stroll along the River Arun into Arundel for a spot of shopping.
Picture him trudging through the rain and snow in February. There. Much better image isn’t it?
I take your point, the wind does fair ol’ whistle across those fields in the winter.
Great ! Let’s stick a thousand wind turbines there. But not in the back garden of any of my nine houses.
And can play in the Euros in the Ukraine
Cos’ m’learned friends like a long vacation….who the heck works bertween June and October for Chrissakes ?? It’d play havoc with the sporting calendar and the shooting
Don’t forget Cowes week!
When Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona last year the democrats blamed Sarah Palin because she’d placed a crosshair over the state on her website. Think how much worse this graphic of Huhne is! If someone were to shoot him now, it would almost be as though Guido had pulled the trigger himself.
Time then, surely, to start mass-producing pictures of Toxic Ned with crosshairs super-imposed.
Bollocks to that!
Just hand me that gun.
I’m preparing to write out the cheque for Guido’s defence fund already…..it would be excellent value.
The lefty democrats and liberals in America only showed their own hate filled hypocrisy by their knee-jerk leaping to the wrong conclusion and blaming Palin.
It turned out that the guy that shot Giffords was a former Marxist, drug user who was just another nutter.
The left NEVER ever apologised for the smear though, even though they themselves engaged in viscous hate speech and death threats against republicans continuously when Bush was in power.
Totally standard leftist behaviour, probably the world over.
“viscous hate speech”? Yup they sure are an oily lot. Viscious with it too!
PS: That is a deliberate typo – just so you know.
LUCKY FOR SOME
The mayor, his deputy and THIRTEEN assistants… how Salford’s new leader has failed to cut the cost of running the city with officers for ‘international relations’ and ‘humanegment’ (sic)
Salford? International relations?
With where? Cuba? North Korea? Zimbabwe?
I actually thought “Seine-Saint-Denis” , and it turns out I’m right.
Wankers!
Excellent, bruvvers !
Or in Salford council – wankpersons, as it is known.
Well, actually, they are all experts in one foreign language or another preparing for the visitors from all over the globe to the new international Marxist Broadcasting Corporation shortly due to begin its operations down the road.
It’s well known in my village pub, that one of the old harmless locals – now to old to drive – was ‘encouraged’ by his daughter, a Met police inspector, to take her lawyer husbands speeding points.
It’s a funny old world . . .
Splendid news indeed…
.yleruhs …deedni swen didnelpS
A backward cat. Really.
Government announces this morning that Alcohol related cases have risen by 10%
So now you can see what is comming , as Baby George has just about reversed ever piece of his fag packet budget he finds himself a couple of hundred million short of balancing the books
so what better time to stick out a made up figure on alcohol abuse , so he can rush through the Minimum unit price , to make up his shortfall
Wanker !
Only one swear word and i’ve been moded
i mean what is wrong with calling Osbore a wanker ?
You forgot to put “fucking” before the “W” word?
And you avoided using the dreaded p r i c e word once then you said p r i c e minimum unit / he is a wanker
Crikey. Is boozy Eric back in the house already?
You really must learn to describe the cost of things as “cost” and not use the word you did. OK? Alternatively, use the Irish spelling ” proice”.
If you don’t mind chaps, I’ll tell the gags on this site,thank you.
Have you heard the one about the feller that walked into Glasgow and got arrested for being a pervert?
How about a new 1000 part BBC series about the corruption of the Tories?
Not another repeat!
Do keep up — they started it in 1933. Goes by the name of “The News”
Even I was not about in 1933, old boy.
To be honest, can you blame him. She is rather challenging to look at first thing in the morning.
It brings to mind the joke about the father in Toys ‘R Us buying a doll for his daughter, to be told that Swimming Pool Barbie costs £39.99, Sports Car Barbie is £35.99 and Divorced Barbie costs £99.99. “Why does Divorced Barbie cost so much?” asked the Father, to which the sales assistant said “Oh that’s because it comes with Ken’s kids, Ken’s car, Ken’s house, Ken’s bank account and half of Ken’s pension, sir”
Bet the tranny bint is still smarting from losing her case last week.
She’s going to have to stump up about £250k.
I’ll give her a paper bag to put over her head for free.
Why is this taking so long? CPS took forever to decide to prosecute, now we’ve had months of waiting then more months of waiting if it goes further.
It’s taking a long time because TPTB are hoping it will drop off the radar so he can be let off.
I thought the whole business had long since been kicked into the long grass. Didn’t take them long to arrange John Terry’s trial, though, did it? And if you think he’s going to get a fair trial, there’s no hope for you. He’s already been convicted.
Rumour’s from Irelands governing party suggest the Irish have told the EU to Fuck off with their Fiscal package
60/ 40
results will be clearer at mid day
Should be an apostrophe in “Ireland’s”, but no apostrophe in “rumours”. The fascist EU will only tell the Irish people to vote again. Actually, I believe some Irish government minister said as much the other day.
BBC said differently at 1pm, but that’s the BBC for you.
Will Carina Trimingham also be appearing , on lezzer charges !
I’m speechless – except to say fucking brilliant, Sir Ev!
Carina’s going down ! LoL
On either or indeed both of them.
Breaking news UK Border agency staff have been getting bonuses of as much as £10,000
24% of staff received bonuses of between £4500 and £10,000
Looks like I chose the wrong career: Should have got a job ‘working’ for the state. Automatic pay rises, a pension and now bonuses.
Heard a “public sector” woman voicing her support to the Doctors strike on Jeremy Vine yesterday… well I say voicing, she could hardly string an intelligible sentence together with any three words that shared relevance, context or indeed tense.
“They are brilliant” was about it, so that’s alright then – the illiterate class of the public sector think it’s OK for the highest paid, highest educated and disproportionately highly valued members of the public service to hold the sick to ransom over getting, essentially, even more public money. And they say we have “evolved” as a species?
FFS.