[Closed] Chris huhne?

Guilty but might sleaze his way out of it

can we wait 25 minutes until we know if he'll face charges?

the muppet thing, though +1

Nah much more fun to speculate wwaswas 🙂
I reckon guilty and the reason the CPS is holding a press-conference is to explain it's reasoning for not prosecuting.
That or his ex really has made it all up and they're prosecuting her instead.

Ten am.

My bet would be that Dave will cut him loose, he's seen the affect of public disrust of politicians already.

The way everyone's out to get him, He seems to be uniquely unpopular

Imagine how much of a **** you have to be to stand out as being seriously disliked in the Westminster world of backstabbing, self-obsessed parasites? Quite an achievement really

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"Chris Huhne" is Swahili for "Self serving career politician scumbag who should never be allowed to hold office again".

Trufax.

🙂 at binners.

His Mrs has made a proper statement hasn't she? definitely needs to be either him getting prosecuted or her then, not swept under the carpet with "not enough evidence" or whatever.

Please, please, please, can he end up with six months in Belmarsh nick.
In the sex offenders wing.ouy 😈

Don't you realise that there is one rule for Them and another for us?

i heard he was going to be made captain of england and terry was going to get his job

To defend him - this was a relatively trivial offence, which many many people have done, and has been dragged up by his ex-wife. If she was happy to do this 9 years ago, what's the basis for going to the police now?

Spite, that's all. Legally, he may be in the wrong, but I don't like the way in which the ex-Mrs Huhne has gone about this. And I hope she's prosecuted alongside him.

Defend him? He's politician, which makes him one with satan.

Worse, he's a Lib-Dem...

bbc reporting he will face charges.

this was a relatively trivial offence, which many many people have done

Thing is lots of people have done it, believing it to be trivial because its easily done.... but its not in any way trivial, the maximum sentence for perverting the course of justice is life. I think if a trial goes ahead a lot of people are going to start to realise how much potential shit they are in - committing a major crime to wriggle out of a minor fine.

Although in this case theres been the breakdown of a relationship that has brought the issue out into the open, lots of people have been so casual about doing this that they've blabbed to their friends and colleagues about it (certainly people have blabbed to me), anyone could shop them. Both the person who has dodged the points and the one who has taken them will be in the frame for prosecution too.

He'll resign from the cabinet, another non-entity will replace him qualified only by the fact he is a Lib-Dem, and it will all continue as usual...

he's going to take it on the chin then?

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He's been charged. 😆

The speeding offese was trivial = perverting the curse of justice / perjury / whatever he could be charged with is not and should get him jail time. Especially from a minister this level of dishonesty is not acceptable - lying in court is what he did even if only by written statement

Perhaps the man was so dodgy that all the other MPs noticed?

Especially from a minister this level of dishonesty is not acceptable - lying in court is what he did even if only by written statement

You're aware that this happened nine years ago, when the chance of him being a minister was as likely as finding that Nelson Mandela and John Terry are best mates.

Apparently John Terry is going to be Immigration Minister and Huhne's heading over to the England captaincy.

You're aware that this happened nine years ago, when the chance of him being a minister was as likely as finding that Nelson Mandela and John Terry are best mates.

So he's suddenly become more honest since becoming a minister?

Interesting to see his wife has also been charged - I did always think if he was guilty so was she. Effectively her attempt to get him back has resulted in her dropping herself in it - I wonder if she got any legal advice before making her statement, or if she's so bitter she considers it a price worth paying?

Especially from a minister this level of dishonesty is [s]not acceptable [/s]exactly what we would expect anyone remember the lib dem pledges, the Iraq dossier,expenses, we are all in it together etc

Interesting to see his wife has also been charged

good. then with any luck the BBC will stop peppering their finance stories with her talking head twaddle.

Resigned now :-0

My bet his wife will get charged but she has a defence / plea for mitigation - done under duress and she 'fessed up. She gets a fine he gets jail

Now reported it "perverting the course of justice" he is being prosecuted for. there must be more than "he said, She said" for prosecution to go ahead.

Hew is going down. Hubris. 🙂

Mr Huhne, Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh, in Hampshire, said he was innocent and would fight his case in court.

what a div. Starmer's not going expose himelf by issuing a summons without something absolutley rock solid.

Wasn't she out of the country or something. Deep down, I know the greasy little scrotum will get off. But you've got to dream.

Resigned now :-0

Not a lot of choice really - well I suppose he had the choice between jumping or getting pushed.

My bet his wife will get charged but she has a defence / plea for mitigation - done under duress and she 'fessed up. She gets a fine he gets jail

I'm not convinced "duress" is either a valid defence or one she can successfully use - are you suggesting he was threatening her with physical harm? Surely it's just the same as all the other people who did this and she was at worst a semi-willing accomplice. Neither am I convince that her "fessing up" will be seen as that noble a gesture.

I should point out I'm not defending Mr Huhne at all - I just don't think she's all that innocent.

mleh

hell serve minimal jail time if any

meanwhile camerons hand will be removed from his rectum and a new libdem puppet will be mounted on it to continue rubber stamping tory policy

hune will end up cashing in his favours from his time as energy minister probably get a ceo position with bnf or someone

all though if archer got to keep his peerage hune will possibly find a way back in to politics

his wifes being a bit vindictive too

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Except perhaps Ed Ballocks.

Apparently John Terry is going to be Immigration Minister and Huhne's heading over to the England captaincy

I think they'd notice though if he got his missus to take a penalty for him

I think they'd notice though if he got [s]his[/s] someone elses missus to take a penalty for him

He's a slimey weasely **** with a capital C

bookies giving 3/1 odds of hune being back in the cabinet before the next election

it seems you cant keep a good man down 😉

That's odds against so they think he won't

oops!

they are not very long odds though are they 1 in 3 chance

no, not long - there's also the margin to consider

To defend him - this was a relatively trivial offence, which many many people have done, and has been dragged up by his ex-wife.

It's not a trivial offence esp considering he was an elected officeholder at the time - which is a position of trust and sensitivity.

Duress? No chance. "He wanted her to do it" isn't the same as "he'd fing kill her if she didn't do it".

[i]"The Crown Prosecution Service's decision today is deeply regrettable," [/i]

yeah how dare they, do they know who I am ! jumped up Bureaucrats !

Hope he gets what he deserves!

What he deserves, is twenty years in a siberian gulag. But we might get lucky and he gets a couple of months.

this was a relatively trivial offence, which many many people have done, and has been dragged up by his ex-wife. If she was happy to do this 9 years ago, what's the basis for going to the police now?

As I understand it she didn't go to the police. The police interviewed her as the result of a complaint which they received. Sure she spilt the beans, but she didn't go to the police demanding that he be prosecuted, someone else did that.

And although I'm not her publicist I'm sure that she would argue that if he's done a dirty on him then it's nothing compared to what he did to her.

"Chris Huhne" is Swahili for "Self serving career politician scumbag who should never be allowed to hold office again".

Trufax.

Give the guy a break, he's a Liberal Democrat - what do people expect from a Liberal Democrat ? For a Liberal Democrat lying to get what/where you want is morally justifiable. Specially if it involves lying to your own voters.

Chris Huhne before the general election, May 2007 :

[b]"Nuclear power is a tried, tested and failed technology, which is clearly a costly blind alley"[/b]

Chris Huhne after the general election and having secured the job he wanted as cabinet minister for energy and climate change, August 2010 :

[b]"We are on course to make sure that the first new nuclear power station opens on time in 2018" [/b]

Liberal Democrat = a fancy term for electoral fraud.

Ernie, swap libdem for politician. All of them are lying self serving arogant sh...s.

he seems to be generally liked: [url= http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100134689/huhne-youd-need-a-heart-of-stone-not-to-laugh/ ]or maybe not[/url]
and as for the climate change shite: [url= http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/03/huhne-is-no-loss/ ]do the maths[/url]

I took three points for huhning down the M1 years ago.

The LibDems are in a league of their own uselesshippy, they even make Tony Blair/New Labour appear as amateurs.

Whilst you can expect politicians not to keep their promises it's a whole new ball game when they actually take policy positions diametrically opposed to what they offered their voters. See the Chris Huhne/nuclear power issue - some people will have voted LibDem because of their opposition to nuclear power, irrespective of whether it's a good or bad policy.

Chris Huhne was elected after fraudulently claiming that he was very strongly opposed to nuclear power.

British politics has always been the source of broken promises and failure to deliver, but ever since the LibDems entered government it has sunk to new lows.

Nick Clegg after the last general election promised a "new kind of politics", he wasn't kidding.

On a par with Blairs "we wont raise taxes" speech. They'd all sell there own granny to get in power. Saying that, the lib dems u turns on just about everything, is horrific.

Huhne's windmills are certainly not doing much today. Installed capacity 5.9GW. Actual production right now less than 1GW. Not much use when it gets cold are they?

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

http://www.bwea.com/statistics/

On a par with Blairs "we wont raise taxes" speech. They'd all sell there own granny to get in power.

No, not really on par with Blair's commitment : "There will be no increase in the basic or top rates of income tax". He stuck to that and in fact cut the basic rate.

A cheap political gimmick imo, but it got him votes. He simply collected more taxes in other ways. But voters don't worry about that - they get all excited about lower income tax.

Thatcher did exactly the same thing btw - cut income tax but substantially increased the UK tax burden.

Personally I would have jacked up income tax and slashed VAT, but then I'm a leftie - Daily Mail readers were far more important to Blair.

Personally I would have jacked up income tax and slashed VAT, but then I'm a leftie - [s]Daily Mail readers were[/s] getting elected was far more important to Blair.

FTFY - though I do appreciate that it means much the same thing. FWIW, this is one of the things I agree with you about (most of them being things no politician who wants to be re-elected will ever do as the masses [s]are stupid[/s] think differently).

Thanks, but there's no need to fix anything for me aracer, I knew what I meant, ie, Daily Mail readers were more important to Blair than lefties like me. Of course you don't have to agree with me, and please feel free not to if that is the case.

"we wont raise taxes. We wont raise taxes. We wont raise taxes" So they put up NI. Anyway,.point is, all of them are sh.ts.
Now give me my beer. Hic.

No uselesshippy, he was very specific. "There will be no increase in the basic or top rates of income tax" is directly from the Labour Party election manifesto.

Politicians generally choose their words very carefully so that they can't be accused of lying. Michael Heseltine once famously said that he had "no plans" to stand for leadership of the Conservative Party at a time when everyone expected he was about to do precisely that. Of course he had every [i]intention[/i], he just didn't have any plans.

That's how politicians operate, by clever use of words so that can't be accused of lying. However in the case of LibDems they don't worry about such niceties and will shamelessly tell blatant barefaced lies.They have successfully managed to discredit British politics even more than it had already been discredited. Takes some doing that.