Not for Vicky Pryce the tried and tested methods of revenge; prawns in the curtain rail, dialing the speaking clock in Lagos, nor even the more exotic version perfected by Lady Sarah Moon: cutting off one arm of all his suits and delivering his wine to grateful villagers. She resisted the potentially criminal ‘Bobbit’ manoeuvre.
No, the lady has class. She merely let it be known how much she had enjoyed being a panellist at a December 2003 debate held by the London School of Economics – and the leisurely dinner held afterwards.
It was for others to speculate as to how she had managed to be held responsible, and thereby collected points on her licence, for driving a car owned by the couple which was seen speeding towards their home, co-incidentally from the direction of Stanstead airport where Chris Huhne had recently landed on a flight from Strasbourg.
Should Vicky be convicted of perverting the course of justice, along with Chris, she will still emerge victorious in the annals of ‘Perfect Revenge’ as the victim of his perfidy. Her many friends in the Liberal-Democrat party will have done all the work for her.
Her political skills deserve a more substantial challenge than merely landing Carina Trimingham with the Booby prize of the year. Perhaps a safe seat could be found for her?
*Ms Trimingham’s ongoing case (IHJ/11/0860) against the Daily Mail whereby she claims damages for ‘invasion of privacy’ because the Daily Mail published pictures and stories concerning her previous very public wedding to a Ms Julie Bennett was amended by application on the 14th December 2011. It should explode nicely in the tabloids around the time that Chris Huhne can expect this one to die down…that’s what happens when you leave your wife and run off with a bisexual PR expert.
*Update: The charges will be ‘Perverting the Course of Justice’ against Huhne and Pryce. 16th February is the court date.
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Apart from the delightful Schadenfreude over this sorry tale, it’s surely time someone in public office was brought to account for misdeeds (which would result in conviction for proles), so I hope Hoon/Huhne is charged.
Plus anyone else than Huhne must be an improvement – the govvernaut is at least a year behind reliable science on global warming and their idiotic “green” policies are economically insane when viewed against mounting evidence of the impending mini ice age.
This Cat is so pleased; it couldn’t happen to a nicer person. Feaxede and I will be feasting on the finest chicken carcasses. Happy days ;o)
Well, let’s wait and see who gets the Energy post before we crow too loudly. It might be someone who is every bit as Green-energy bonkers, after all.
Nobody outside Greenpeace can be THAT green-energy bonkers.
Can they?
Short answer – Yes!
Also, it doesn’t matter if these charges fail. It is now established that so long as a smidgen of arguably new evidence emerges, the Crown can re-open the case as many times as it likes until it gets the result that it wants according to politcal expediency.
Ironically, this means that the Crown can’t ever walk away, either.
Not quite. Section 75 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 allows for the retrial of only those serious offences listed in Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Act
And who said that list couldn’t be expanded?
In theory, Parliament can pass a law on anything.
In theory?
Parliamentary sovereignty.
My God, this is terribly depressing. I must cheer myself with a spit roast and hog of ale.
I really cannot bring myself to summon a ‘mind’s eye’ image of anyone (sorry – should be ‘any two’) spit roasting the ineffable Melvin. But if it does happen – please post images.
Metaphors. Allow me to explain when you are back on the wagon.
@MTG: ‘spitroast’? Are you a professional footballer by any chance, with a couple of like minded team mates??
She reminds me a bit of Kate Allen, head of Amnesty. Especially about the eyes. The Liberals? About the only ones stopping the complete erosion of civil liberty in Ingerlund. Now for some good news. A while ago Miss Raccoon had a troll issue. Last night I discovered that the chap posting gay porn, race hate and Islamophobia is none other than Derek G Haslam, 9 Lynn Rd, Southery, Downham Market, PE38, 0HU. Queer that he was not arrested by Norfolk plod. Same freemasons lodge M’Lud? Well he was a Met detective in Addington in the 1970s. His name and address now forwarded to CIRA, Al Que’ad and some baaadasss negroes.
Hasn’t he been trolling Gadget’s blog too recently? I’m sure I know the name from there.
Or Old Holborn’s blog.
Quite so. He had a look at yours but didn’t bother….
Neither did I
I think that was for Julia M old chap;)
I know. I wasn’t taking the points for her, duck.
Ciaran – Troll off!
Get you, ducky.
I reckon he is going down. A woman scorned and all that….!
If shes got any sense she will plead guilty— that will leave him very little room to manouvere. REVENGE is a dish best served cold. She will get a much lesser sentence– he did it to her , and the courts should take into account a spouse’s reluctance at the time of he offence to dob their other half in. As a pompey bloke I have to say the scumbag rubbed her nose well and truly in it, making her take the points then printing all the election material about how the had been together so long— then fuc*ing off with Tinkerbell. I’m a bloke and have a lot of sympathy for Vicky ( though I dont like her politics)
Why do these politicians have such ugly wives? With a few exceptions they are all two paper bag jobs.
Anyway back to the topic.Will he have to stand down as an MP if he gets convicted? Could make an interesting by-election.
Only if found guilty and sentenced to more than 12 months imprisonment Representation of the People Act 1981. Appointment to the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds does not require a CRB check.
Oddly, the webpage for the CPS Sentencing Manual on perverting the course of justice is unavailable at present.
Jaded, how would you like it if you were “ugly” and judged soley on your looks? The world isnt made up of celebrity people in either ” Hello ” or “Femail”. Many very photogenic people have all sorts of hang ups— Look at the very tragic case of Gary Speed, seems like they had everything but nothing.
Ugly people are warm blooded and have feelings just like everyone but have much more to cope with
I don’t know – she looks OK to me. A lot better than Ms Trimingham, that’s for sure!
Oddly enough, in the lovely Kingdom of Northumbria has also witnessed a similar event: http://caedmonscat.blogspot.com/2012/02/horehound-on-toast.html
Deepjoy folly folly..
‘Hell hath no fury… etc.’
Ms. Pryce does indeed show a certain style, making her straying hubby “take it dry” and condemning his political career to the annals of history. If convicted, there is surely no way back for Huhne, a man whose ambitions are, in the context of the Liberal Democrats, nothing less than the highest position possible – leader of the party.
Mr. Huhne has maintained his innocence throughout the entire period that this story has been in the spotlight. I think that the CPS must surely have taken even more than their usual?? care before determining that there is a case to answer here.
It will at least make a very interesting case… Vicky Pryce, who is no one’s fool must have weighed up the probability of being convicted herself before deciding to do her estranged husband in the goolies. A vengeful woman… and no wonder. By all accounts she supported Huhne through the lean times when he was a journalist, trying to break into politics and to be betrayed in this way must have been a bitter bitter blow.
And he has resigned to avoid distractions to either his official duties or his defence but will continue to represent himself and his constituents. Phew! What a relief, end of the workd averted then.
It will I suspect just the face of the minister for energy and climate fraud that will change.
Till the insane EU collapses it will be business as usual.
And they will hang on until we all starve.
What ‘pryce’ a plea-bargain with Vicky pleading guilty, thus cutting the legs from under any creative defence the Huhny-monster’s expensive lawyers can muster ? She stays out of chokey, he gets even more.
Couldn’t happen to a more pompous, smug, scheming, lying, EU-loving, irritating, green-bollocks twat. OK, I’ll admit it, never rated the guy – he’s hopefully getting his just desserts.
But it was a damned close-run thing – were it not for the ‘public’ nature of the evidence, as largely compiled and distributed by the Web, the ‘establishment’ would have been able to let him off the hook, as would have happened 10 or more year ago. Another win for ‘web-power’.
@Mudplugger: You raise interesting points… firstly regarding a guilty plea/star witness role for Ms. Pryce, whose testimony would be extremely damaging to Huhne, if the prosecution can dispense with the fact that she is clearly gunning for Huhne and would do anything to destroy him. Throw into the mix Constance Briscoe, who, it appears is also involved as a potential witness as to fact and add whatever Essex Police dug up and one wonders what sort of trial this will prove to be. Potentially explosive…!
Also an extremely good point regarding the role of the Web in all this – another example of ‘people power’. I think it was fairly self-evident that there have been attempts to kick this case into the ‘long grass’ by the establishment.
I don’t think you’re the only one to think he was the worst kind of politician. James Dellingpole thinks the same.
“It is indeed a singular achievement for one man to rise so high in the reasonably clubbable, popularity-dependent world of politics while yet remaining so heroically charmless in almost every possible way.”
As for web power, a tip of the hat towards Guido Fawkes who will probably have a very sore head tomorrow after celebtrating a fanstatic win.
@SadButMadLad: True! James Dellingpole has pulled absolutely no punches whatsoever! Huhne has, per Mr. Dellingpole managed a singular feat of upsetting everyone in his party, the Conservatives and just about anyone else who has ever met the guy. Quite some going!
No body mentions the little point of him flying Ryanair while claiming first (do they have such a class between Brussels / Strasbourg and London) clutching his duty free, which only Eurocrats can buy, from Europe to London.
The man is a complete hypocrite. Flying at our expense, using excessive fuel when driving and claiming all he can while berating the rest of us for leaving our phones on charge.
For more detail about how much his actions have cost the public have a shufty over to WUWT where Christopher Monkton says that Huhne is no loss. Basically it will cost the UK $1.2 TRILLION over the next 40 years or so all to save 1.2% of global CO2 emissions if targets were reached. And we know how many targets set by politicians are reached. Somewhere less than 1. And how has the figure of 80% been thought up? Well that’s just it. It was just thought up with no scientific basis at all.
However now the that the Climate Change Act is in place, it will be a very very brave poltician who cancels it. And there is no such thing as even a non-timid politician now-a-days as they all bow down before their leader and the whips and the desire to be seen to be doing something for the lobbyists who are funded by the government in a vicious cycle like a snake eating it’s own tail.
@Doonhamer: Good point… Huhne should, in a way, actually be grateful if he does get ‘banged up’ at the end of the trial, as it will do wonders for his personal carbon footprint.
Off topic but intriguing and in need of a good legal analysis for us dummies, should you, or one of your ‘learned friends’ find the time:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813226,00.html
Off topic… You don’t say!
His replacement is Ed Davey.
Profile here:-
http://www.edwarddavey.co.uk/web/?q=biography
Typical MP. Only 2 years real work – if on can consider “In 1993, I left Parliament to work for a management consultancy firm called Omega Partners where I specialised in postal services. With Omega Partners”
God help us!
Did an amazing job in his Constituency. The count was speaking personally to 40k constituents in the first term to take the majority from 56 to 16500 in one go.
I have a class photo of him aged 10 somewhere…
Subsequently trending down to 7,560 in 2010.
Correct.
Quite a classic LD pattern as constituents like the attention then some of them don’t like the reality.
And like LD MPs in the Coalition: we never expected to be in government having to make unpopular decisions.
The classic LD pattern I wish for is LD50 – goodbye to at least half of them.
Was that from his time at the same fee-paying school as Ed Balls, where Wavey-Davey was in the year ahead ?
I don’t know about climate change but I’m sure a small sliver of golden sunlight has just appeared over Westminster with this news. That’s how it feels to me anyway.
First, the execrable ‘Mr’ Goodwin, then that paragon of racial harmony John Terry, lastly the fatuous and devious Mr Huhne. Not a bad week’s work.
Don’t deceive yourselves, “gullible warming” shall continue unabated.
Its on the government’s agenda.
It must be real.
I think we need totting up provisions for driving offences back on the agenda; it’s been a bit of a disaster of a blunt instrument for years and years.
What % of the population has ‘perverted the course of justice’ in this way? I’d say a few 10s or 100s of thousands.
If a partner was facing a ban for a 4th trivial offence, I’d certainly consider it…
Hot potato, though.
Cor.
Directline:
” 660,000 motorists admit to penalty points swapping
Over half of these have swapped points in a bid to keep their licence clean
One in eight motorists who have points have taken them for another driver
”
http://www.directline.com/about_us/news_03032010.htm
Which suggests that the system is one of those disfunctional laws which needs to be redrawn.
Or that drivers can rack up more than 12 points and keep their licences if they can show exceptional hardship if they lost it. It’s what a good lawyer, or better still, a bad lawyer should have been able to convince the Essex Magistrates ten years ago.
A smarter alternative would be to translate each ‘point’ into a 10% Insurance loading onto whetever their base premium would have been, with no upper limit. An ever-escalating penalty for repeated sins.
Then the Insurers would be ordered to place all those extra premium amounts into the common fund to compensate victims of uninsured drivers – thus spreading that burden around ‘bad’ drivers, rather than loading everyone else.
That way, ‘fines’ are collected free by insurers on behalf of government, with repeat offenders ‘fined’ more, but are redirected to a means of saving insurers (and safe drivers) from a current on-cost. Done with simple IT systems, it would cost little to operate, whilst saving vast amounts in penalty administration.
I’m afraid that your idea would lead to an increase in the number of uninsured drivers as your ‘bad’ drivers found the cost of the premium too expensive to bother with.
The premiums are already too expensive so more uninsured drivers avoiding payment might cause the premiums to fall – Market Forces.
Hoon’s replacement at the Dept of greenfoolery intends to keep up the bad work, with a promise of lots of lovely new jobs in green energy – all at the expense of gas and electricity customers.
The blancmange-faced PM, endorsing the continuing lunacy, echoes the widely held ignorance of basic science as he talks of cutting “carbon emissions”.
Business as usual, it seems, in the world of wind and wonder.
I have created the obligatory ‘Downfall’ video for this moment, which is suitably offensive. Please don’t watch if you are easily offended:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deedSFoguBw
K, your video is excellent. A suggestion: let your translation of Clegg & Co stand a little longer on screen, so we can read each section in full. My German alone is not up to the job.
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