Expenses cheat Margaret Moran was “too depressed” to attend court to hear her sentence this morning, but she faces a two-year supervision and treatment order as ‘punishment’ for her £53,000 swindle. This expenses piggie was found to have committed 15 counts of false accounting. The judge says some will say “she got away with it”. Moran isn’t the first expenses cheat to dodge jail, and she won’t be the last…
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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Google-eyed-Dave
Its not cricket!
One rule for them etc….
STOOOOOP!
Kebab Time is a F5 key?
Now all the rioters have a get out of jail free card.
They have probably suffered more in their lives than she has.
Does she get to keep her pension?
“Does she get to keep her pension?”
What do you think?
MP’s are the new mafia, at least with the old mafia, you did actually get protection for their extortion.
With the new lot, you just get the extortion.
Oh, I expect she will – and she’ll keep her job as well. They don’t give out Two Year Treatment Orders for nothing, you know.
How does depression free you from the ability to tell right from wrong?!
What an absolute travesty.
He mustn’t have a job
Too depressed to go to prison, eh?. Like the man who murdered his parents, and then asked the Court to show clemency on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Hang the moo
How about the Government making a new Quango with me in the chair and a committee of my selection from all walks of life, providing they work and pay taxes.
We could be called the independent peoples watchdogs to peruse Parliamentary expenses.
We don’t need a judge to oversee it, common law will do the rest.
With everything being re-branded,
Guerrillas=Insurgents
Recession=Economic downturn
Printing money=Quantative easing Etc etc etc
Can WE re-brand something please?
Tax = Protection money
Everything they (the political classes) do is comparable to any “Gangstas” you care to remember.
secret dodgy deals selling out each other and all of us, Wars over “Turf (Sand)” Drugs and Arms, whist of course enriching themselves and their (crime) Families.
I hope you are not referring to me when you intimate that politicians are involved with organised crime to enrich themselves. Boaz.
Boaz Handy.
I am depressed reading about thieving fuck pig politicians. Can I now stay off work and get paid by the state?
Too ‘depressed’ to attend court. Not too ‘depressed’ to hop on a plane to her holiday hidey hole in Granada.
Discuss…………..
Pretty depressing for the rest of us, isn’t it?
She looked especially depressed in that pic taken recently of her and hubbie walking from an agreeable pub lunch.}}Still for every cloud there’s a silver lining: a nice “get out of jail free card” precedent has been set for all transgressors in future.
So well done Margaret and her legal team.
So the public will just have to take the law back into their own hands. Is that the message the judge really wishes to send?
If the judge thinks “some may think she got away with it”, wtf did he not just throw the book at her. We need to do something about our wimpish judiciary. They need to get a kick up the whatsits and grow a bloody spine.
I bet the lunch didn’t find the Morans agreeable.
The fat thieving bitch should be in prison. This is clearly a put up job.
Not at all, it’s morally correct.
There’s not an awful lot to look forward to in the new year, but I’m happy to make an exception in the case of Huhne’s trial. Oh yes, just bring it on….
You do not understand she is an MP, being an MP comes with certain privleges
such as thieving and troughing
Ex MP, thank goodness.
The judge says some will say “she got away with it”. He’s not wrong.
The judge may say “some”, I’d say he’d be hard pressed to find any who didn’t think she’d got away with it.
For the record this was my MP as well. Hence my “nom de plume” on here
Nig Nog eh? Nowadays you’re not even allowed to think it!
Wacist!
People who only talk about themselves, eh?
I’ll have half.
my arse!
is she still an MP?
Pensioned off perhaps?
No justice.
Better still if we had no judiciary. Just look at some of the crap they have come up with in the past few months. They get worse by the day.
I always thought Supervision Orders were given to teenagers .
Just because tax cheats have dodged jail in the past I do not see why it should follow that this will be the case in the future especially now we have Theresa May and Chris Grayling on the job
… despite the fact that we have Tess and Chris on the job.
There fixed it for you.
Osama Bin Laden was pretty depressed at being ambushed by a SEAL team – should they have let him off?
Good job a UK judge wasn’t involved!
Love thy neighbour
This statement is also available in Polish, Hindi, Gujurati, Somali, Arabic, Chinese and Tagalog. If you disagree, you’re a waycist.
Prison is for little people.
Bring back the stocks
.. then we can all have shares in chucking the tomatoes at them!
That rules me out. Boo hoo.
They say “A precedent embalms a principle”. Depression, it would appear, is a rather good ‘Stay Out Of Court and Jail” card.
It will be used again and again you can bet.
Unless the accused is an MP it will be rejected again and again.
I will appoint her Minister for Dry Rot in the forthcoming election landslide
Has she been asked to pay back her ill-gotten gains? As she hasn’t actually been convicted of any offence, I fear the answer is no…
This just makes me really, really depressed
but will she get to meet the Queen when she recovers?
I don’t have much time for hob-knobbing with loonies. Not if they aren’t relations.
If only Max Clifford were around to pursuade me she’s really the victim in all this.
I’d be fascinated to learn how many cases of petty theft such as nicking a tin of beans or rubber chicken from Tesco to have food on the table get dealt with on a similar basis and similar leniency. This was not petty theft. It was deliberate and calculated from the start. May she hang her head in shame.
I’d reckon that most ‘spur of the moment’ shoplifting by middle aged women who are depressed is dealt with quite compassionately. However, as you say, this was systematic and calculated, carried out by someone in a position of public trust and special authority. There is no comparison really.
Dont be rediculous, the only reason you need to steal food today(with a family of 4 getting at least £1,500 a month in benefits) is if they have peed it up the wall!
Has she smashed up any restaurants recently? She just doesn’t geddit. We need an enquiry. Wunashun. Tax cut for millionaires.
Moran case…..Are there no hospital wings in prisons these days?
Apparently not. None of the people currently behind bars is depressed. The facilties, after all, are far better than they can aspire to on the outside unless they have considerable earning power generating discretionary income. The gym and heated indoor swimming pool at Holloway is clean and not overcrowded at all, the hairdressers have a happy and regulat clientelle and the library is stocked with books in many languages. There is a healthy diet and the rooms are cosy and warm. Drugs are readily available. What’s not to like?
yeah drugs man, no-one knows about drugs except for me. I am an authority on them. Everyone who doesnt agree with me is a racist and a homophobe too.
Most of the pensioners I know would be very glad to have the sort of care, attention, and money which is lavished on our prisoners.
Tell ‘em to chuck a brick at the next police person they see. Should be good for at least a three month stretch – at least until the warmer weather arrives.
“What’s not to like?”
The showers?
I see reddy eddy is talking today about immigration, shame Labour didn’t talk to the country about it when they secretly filled it with more people, the delight is these people will want to go there own way and not follow Labours path to enlightenment and will want to be MPs and Councillors for their own groups , even for the BBC it will have to have multi channels for all these groups, the elite lefty Liberalism won and will fall by the wayside, welcome to Britain people, benefits forms and cash just over there.
1 Condemn the Tories for daring to talk about the issue
2 See that the country agrees with steps to restrict immigration
3 Better jump on the bandwagon
Rinse and repeat.
Perhaps the poor abused darling would like a break in Italy. My dear friend Silvio Berlusconi could invite her to a bunga-bunga party to cheer her up and explain how to be really corrupt and I can give her the lowdown on tax avoidance.
I wonder if Moran will recover as miraculously and quickly as the very naughty chap did in the Guinness affair some years ago?
Indubitably.
Indubitably.
Would love to see that Bollox creature getting his face filled in. I can think of no one more deserving.
The Judge is a fuckwit. No surprise there then.
One of slotgob’s mates perchance?
BBC told to put more gay presenters on children’s TV to ‘familiarise’ youngsters with different sexualities
They really cannot help themselves talk about sexualities and they think of kids
“Have you ever seen a grown man naked?”
Aren’t there enough of them on there already? The place is crawling with them.
I work on the assumption that all presenters are Gay, I’m sure there are one or two exceptions but by and large….
maybe <10% population Gay, many % (comparably) Tv "personalities" Gay?
Have no issues with Gayers
have issue with Gayification of tv!
Sorry
.. and their persistent unrelenting ‘in yer face’ attitude to everybody else. Perhaps we need to import a few Iranians after all (along with their beautiful cranes).
http://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/279181943998930944
That’s quite a claim you are making, Diane. Did you keep the receipts?
She got a superb grasp of the English language.
Get an arrow pointing at your arsehole saying ‘insert here’
It should say “Warning – contents liable to offend”.
Ask john if he would like stirrups or a stepladder on the inner calves
Margaret Moran is a fat, ugly, criminal, swindling, can dodging, hypocrite who cheats to avoid punishment (wish I could think of a good word to describe that – someone?)
I cannot envisage a more effective method of birth control than to ponder her ghastly visage on pictures such as the one above.
If she were the only woman left in the world, I would cut my own cock off in desperation rather than consider any other strategy.
It is with hearty hope that I wish that life will deal her her own special reward which will be long and painful and at least as unpleasant to her as she has been to us and her constituents who were unwise enough to elect her.
That is not libel – it is fact.
With a face like that, hasn’t she suffered enough?
I wish Guido had put a piggy nose on that photo of her.
Mmmm. No, not yet – to your question.
Maybe he’ll read you comment and make the necessary adjustment?
Suitable word? MP do?
Isn’t English justice wonderful? Aren’t you glad that despite everything, true wisdom, impartiality and fairness resides in our wonderful judges?
It makes my heart glad, that whenever a criminal is brought before the courts and after due process is found guilty, the judge will always give the sentence the crime deserves, so that everyone can see justice has been done.
Today should be a day of great rejoicing citizens!
90 days inside for you my lad.
Is it rude to ask which party was in power when this judge was appointed to the bench?
Is the judge in the same golf club or Masonic lodge as Moran’s husband?
I think I read somewhere that ALL Judges are appointed from the same set of Legal Chambers in the City.
Now who can confirm that? We might get a few answers to our queries then.
You try nicking 35 grand and pleading depression and see where it gets you.
This is simply disgusting. What a country. What a parliament. These two cesspits are the real causes of depression.
Will she pay back the loot?
Sorry about the question mark, I’m afraid I’m just being ridiculous.
Happy days…..
Zut alors what is all this mierde about Yorkshire being in the Tour De France !!
Do they have a 75% tax rate?
Fair do’s. What’s sauce for the Sanders is sauce for the Moran
Why are there no minimum sentences for crimes committed by MPs? We have them for people carrying knives.
Dave has arranged a fixed tariff of five years. Troughing.
It’s a funny old world
So, the Judge says “Some people will say she got away with it”.
No shit!
Everyone will say she got away with it – except all the other MP’s!
Yeah.
650 v 66,100,000.
Oh! Guess what? No contest! The 650 win…
Invest in piano wire futures.
I think the justice system of England needs a treatment order
What a fucking joke. This troughing thieving bitch suddenly goes mental and she gets away with fucking us again. Is the grabbing cow going to have to re-pay the cash? Don’t hold your breath.
So we now have “The Moran Defence” officially added to case law. Let’s just see how many other felons will be accorded this get out of jail card.
Try not paying your road task using the defence of being depressed by the state of the roads, or the telly tax ‘cos the shitty output is so depressing.
Have you joined Old Holborn’s campaign to bring it all down?
Can someone please explain how Peter Sutcliffe was fit to stand trial, but Margaret Moran wasn’t?
Defendants who are unfit to plead at the point of trial normally have a ‘Not Guilty’ plea entered on their behalf, and the trial proceeds.
Unlike Sutcliffe, nobody is claiming that she was not in control of her actions when she committed her crimes.
Please, please explain.
Of course she was off her trolley when committing fraud – she was a Labour MP for God’s sake.
At least the other MPs had the tiny brass balls to face up to their crimes. This greedy coward is trying to hide behind depression.
Another utterly disgraceful saga that highligths the travesty that is called British Justice.
I cannot for the life on me see why anybody should bother to observe British Laws, clearly those that do must be “thick as a plank”
The great lie is that crime does not pay…….
Game on methinks!
From the BBC website:
“(Moran) was found to have falsely claimed around £60,000 in parliamentary expenses between 2004 and 2008, of which she received £53,000.
Her claims were the largest amount uncovered in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal.”
Did I read somewhere that Miller has claimed £93,000?
Baroness Udin £250k+.
Don’t forget, she had a team of pettifogging mountebanks behind her who will be congratulating one another on a right result.
Hang all the lawyers.
And I, for one, advocate that.
Hola! from sunny Spain. Eat shit, mugs.
I’m not feeling depressed any more.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/video/series-57/episode-1/politicians-for-hire-margaret-moran
I hope the fat thieving bitch chokes on her Christmas pudding.
I give my wholehearted support to Margaret. I will arrange a photo-opportunity to show us hugging each other.
You can always rely on us!
As usual, the law makes itself a complete Ass.
This criminal committed her swindles between 2004 and about 2008, and was clearly of sound criminal mind, albeit a crap forger of invoices. It would not appear that she was then depressed, and should thus be found guilty of the crimes she committed when not “swinging the lead”, as now.
Her alleged state of mind at the time of trial and sentence (no doubt we shall see an Ernest Saunders/Lazarus miracle recovery after 2 years, if not sooner) is completely irrelevant to her guilt or innocence.
At the end of this, we see that Mr. Justice Saunders is not in full possession of his faculties, and is as gullible and stupid as the day is long.
She gives people who suffer from genuine depression a bad name. The symptoms for depression do not include making false or fraudulent invoices for expenses claims. People with genuine depression can hardly be arsed buying a pint of milk, let alone masterminding faked claims for expenses. She used mental health to evade a jail sentence.
One law for the dishonourables and one law for the rest.
We presume that she will go to jail when she has … recovered. Just like Saunders of Guinness scandal fame. And the son .
So does she have to give us back the £53,000 back that she defrauded us of?
Apparently the Crown is considering it…they had effing well do so from the thieving shi*te
Miller is next.
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