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.

[jackthehat]

Yes, you have made that point before.
However, 'The Law' is just that, and we are all supposed to obey it, not pick and choose which bits suit us or pursue those we feel it is more expedient to deal with.

[joggerjayne]

I know. But I just can't get worked up about something that I don't care about (rightly or wrongly).

He speeded. I don't care. We all do.

He lied about it. I don't care. If he'd run over someone, and lied about it, I'd think it was terrible. But he lied about having driven too fast. Big deal.

I know lots of people who are self employed. Sometimes they "put things through the business". They buy a pad of paper and let their kids have it to draw on. They are committing fraud. They are criminals.

I'm self employed. I buy stationery for work and use it for my shopping list. I'm a tax evading criminal. The lappy which I'm using for AnswerBank was bought as a business expense. Clearly I should spend the rest of my life behind bars.

I live a life of crime, and I mix with criminals, obviously.

But however they dress it up, this is a case about someone who drove too fast (on a safe, empty stretch of the M 11) and then lied about it.

Frankly, I cannot bring myself to give a stuff about trivial things like that. Not even when it's someone famous.

[jackthehat]

It is entirely your prerogative to 'not give a stuff'.

Fortunately, 'The Law' needs neither your approval nor your agreement to operate.

[joggerjayne]

BOOM !!

Was that a booby trap ??

If the law is the law, without the need for any support or mandate from the people ... don't we have Totalitarianism???

From a jurisprudential point of view, you could argue that no law has any validity unless it has the mandate of the people. Of whom I am one.

:0)

[humbersloop]

he's not famous like d-list appearing in hello! slebs are famous, jj, he held public -high- office,

and mrs h was a onetime government advisor, who also appears to have subborned a judge in her support

and they lied and lied

[jackthehat]

Yes, you could.......
Will that be the next avenue you take?

Huhne and Pryce have been dealt with under the laws pertaining to Perverting the Course of Justice, which is considered to be a grevious offence......just because the original offence may be seen to have been a 'piddly little thing' doesn't mitigate against the later greater offence.

[FredPuli43]

What mandate or support of the people is lacking in the case of this law, JJ? Are we to have a referendum every time there is a prosecution contemplated ?

[joggerjayne]

He lied to the Police. So he was "perverting the course of justice"

Blah, blah.

So when the Police say ... Did you know you had a bald tyre madam? and you say ... No, goodness, I'm sorry. I'm glad you pointed that out, officer ...

You are making a false statement, perverting the course of justice.

[Sipowicz]

If I were you JJ, I'd get a new tyre ASAP!

[Zacs-Master]

don't we have Totalitarianism???

No, we have law and order. Are you a commie JJ?

[Mick-Talbot]

Is it a nice wine JJ?

[Zacs-Master]

It must be MT, she seems to have been on it since lunchtime.

[DTCwordfan]

mine is - and I couldn't give a feck about Chris or Vicky - bet they are dry tonight.

[joggerjayne]

Au contraries, zacs.

Communism is a form of totalitarianism.

I am the opposite ... I advocate "democracy" ...

The will and voice of the people.

[joggerjayne]

Lets try that word again with my tax evading iPad ...

"Contraire"

Yay

[Zacs-Master]

Deffo pi55ed.

[boxtops]

JJ: "He speeded. I don't care. We all do."

speak for yourself - I don't.

[joggerjayne]

Boxy ...

You have never ever gone over 70 on the motorway?

Never EVER ?

Well, good you.

I can't claim to be so virtuous. If i drive to London on a morning, even the inside lane is moving at about 75 ... except for the speed restricted vans, and you.

[Mick-Talbot]

So when the Police say ... Did you know you had a bald tyre madam? and you say ... No, goodness, I'm sorry. I'm glad you pointed that out, officer ...

You are making a false statement, perverting the course of justice.





Can you explain how JJ?

[boxtops]

Nope, never, I don't do motorways.