Do You Agree

[brionon]

that the Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce story has become idiotic ? Prison after their lives are already ruined. For such a minor offence.

[craft1948]

Wife left in the poo, no money, successful husband swans off into the sunset with leggy blonde secretary

Have you seen Huhne's ladyfriend?

If my husband had left me for something like that it would make the pill twice as bitter.........

[Mick-Talbot]

and why is it the woman always gets the blame, if he hadn't asked her to take the points none of this would have happened, none..



Who blamed the woman?

[emmie]

read earlier thread..

[Zacs-Master]

JJ - wife has nothing to loose? So you don't see a criminal conviction and a spell in jail as a bar to a successful career?

[emmie]

she was stupid, but not half as devious and stupid as her ex.

[joggerjayne]

Zacs ...

I imagine the wives who queue up at the Police station will not be the "successful career" types.

Thought ...

If speed cameras are there to stop people speeding, why do the Police get annoyed if you flash at cars to warn them of speed traps?

When you flash the other drivers, they slow down.

You are HELPING the Police achieve their claimed objective of stopping people speeding.

[craft1948]

I think Huhne as a person, was summed up in the published texts from his son. Apart from the names he calls his father he insists that his mother only took the points after intolerable pressure from Huhne..............I'll believe the son.

[emmie]

funny enough so do i, he was obviously hurt deeply by his fathers betrayal, departure, it can be devastating when a parent leaves, more so i expect when it is splashed across the newspapers.

[lynbrown]

How much has this cost the country?

[emmie]

no idea, suggest that costs will come out of his purse, why in this case should it matter, don't you think people should be prosecuted for perjury, prominent person or not.

[Zacs-Master]

You must have a career, or a friend with a career in the police JJ. BTW I think your assumption that the wives of most speeding motorists are non career minded is a little misguided.

[jackthehat]

JJ - Your outrage at the waste of time and money in this prosecution might not sound quite so hollow had you not already established your own complicity in 'points-trading'.

Chris Hunhe and Vicky Pryce have now been sentenced and I, for one, are happy that they will be serving a term behind bars.......

Let's hope that this is an end to the who sordid shambles.

[jackthehat]

*am happy, even....

[emmie]

i don't think this is over, but it should be...

[bazwillrun]

The costs will sting , but they wont do much more, he has a property portfolio worth a few million.

I'm happy to bet that even after all of this in five, ten years or whenever,hes worth more than and will be making more than anybody on AB !

[Zacs-Master]

I'm sure the Old Boys network will look after him when he comes out of Chokey.

[joggerjayne]

//your own complicity in 'points-trading//

Clap me in irons!

JTH ... I do love you, but no number of people bleating on about the dangers of speeding will ever convince me that this was not a farcical waste of money.

Nor will I ever listen to any self righteous person saying that speeding is dangerous unless they will say that they never, ever, EVER drive over the speed limit. Never. Not even at 72mph on an empty motorway.

You can't have it both ways.

[jackthehat]

JJ - The 'Huhne-affair' has gone far beyond the original offence of speeding.

You don't have to have murdered someone to hold the opinion that it is, in general, a bad thing........

[joggerjayne]

It is "a bad thing" yes.

But if, at the start of the affair, someone had asked me if I wanted to chip in towards the cost (which we all did), so that the Police could divert their attention from catching people who rob the elderly and focus on a high profile showboat offence related to speeding ... I'd have told them to clear off and chase the robbers and rapists instead.