Chris Huhne

[hawksley]

Try getting a job with a prison record, Easy just say your name is Chris Huhne, and you will get a job with a well know power company 100,000 Pa, for a two day week,not bad for an ex offender

[sandyRoe]

What company is it? They deserve to be commended for such an attitude. As you say, there aren't many companies that will give an old lag a second chance.

[mikey4444]

Is there a link to this somewhere...can't find anything on the BBC News website ?

[anotheoldgit]

It's called the rehabilitation of prisoners, surely jail should not be just a punishment. :0)

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2388524/Disgraced-minister-Chris-Huhne-lands-energy-job-paying-100-000-just-days-week.html

[Sqad]

Well, it was hardly the "Crime of the Century".....he has done his "porridge" so how long are we going to hold it against him?

£100,000 per annum......the company will soon recoup that.

[anotheoldgit]

Forgot who it was that requested a link sorry.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/disgraced-former-mp-chris-huhne-lands-new-job-8755469.html

[sandyRoe]

After his downfall I thought he might have aped Profumo and spent the rest of his working life atoning by going and doing charitable work in some God forsaken place, the East End.

[humbersloop]

^chocks away under the pigs sandy ;)

[LazyGun]

Not many of those released from Prison will have Huhnes experience, contacts or knowledge base - All of which are still valuable, despite being imprisoned essentially for hubris.

This company must feel that those factors that Huhne has outweigh his momentary disgrace consequent from lying about a speeding ticket and an ex-wife out for revenge.

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// in some God forsaken place, the East End. ///

Is that any worse than 'Bongo, Bongo Land'?

[sandyRoe]

Apart from islands of wealth, I believe it to be a place of great poverty and considerable social deprivation

[FredPuli43]

Now that's what I call a rehabilitation programme ! Getting the offender back into normal society, integrated.

[mikey4444]

Ghastly though Huhne is, he has done his time and should be allowed to get on with his life. Its not as if he was being given a job in the public sector, paid for by taxpayers. Presumably Zilkha Biomass Energy ( whoever they are ! ) will be keeping a close eye on the petty cash and tea money.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Presumably Zilkha Biomass Energy ( whoever they are ! ) will be keeping a close eye on the petty cash and tea money. ///

Oh come off it be fair, just because he was jailed for perverting the course of justice, doesn't necessarily make him a 'Tea-Leaf'.

[sandyRoe]

Will they supply a 'green car' and chauffeur?
did he lose his license

[mikey4444]

My post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek aog, as I am sure you were aware. His honesty has been called into question in the recent past and has found to be wanting, that is all I meant.

[Svejk]

Don't think of it as a job. More a reward. Ties in nicely with the shoplifting story.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// My post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek aog, as I am sure you were
aware. ///

As was mine.

[mikey4444]

Of course aog...I realised that !

On this subject, I am still a bit surprised that this energy company that I have never heard of would employ Huhne. After all this, if they are remembered at all, it will be for giving him a job...hardly good publicity I would have thought.

But, perhaps he has learnt his lesson. It is said, after all, that God loves sinners that have repented !