One Law for Laws….
By Mike Cunningham On May 12th, 2011When the feeding frenzy was in full bloom about the Westminster Expenses saga, some (very few) determined to resign, having been found out. More were pursued by various sectors of the Media, and many of them resigned before the election, because they knew that they would never get re-elelected. Some stood for re-election and won, because they knew the calibre of British voters; which is a combination of jelly, stupidity, blind loyalty, unthinking admiration, steely devotion to lost causes and, once again, stupidity! Some M.P.s bit the bullet, paid back their ill-gotten gains, admitted their wrongdoing and won through! Some, a very few, were arrested, charged and found guilty, and are now in prison.
And then there is David Laws M.P., the shining economic star of the Lib-Dems, a multi-millionaire, and also a liar, a thief, a pervert, and a man who has been suspended for only seven days for bringing Parliament into disrepute!
Pervert? How so?
Because he is not heterosexual. A shameful criminal offence in Mike’s opinion.
Mike Cunningham -
Harsh.
Suspended for a week for stealing £100,000
Behold Cameron’s Victorian values.
Jacqui Smith got away better than Laws… despite taking more money. He deserves punishment, and his sexual orientation have nothing to do with his personal character, which is my problem with this article.
Under Mike’s beloved apartheid, sodomy could be punished with up to seven years in prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/190268.stm
The former South African military practised so-called “aversion therapy” on gay men, applying electric shocks to victims while they viewed images of naked men, a report on human rights abuses said last year. (and I thought Tom Sharpe was making that up)
Exactly Bernard. Mike’s article should concentrate rightly on the financial abuses and greed rather than the needless and bigoted ‘pervert’ distraction.
His abuses were financial of course but he tried to cover them up because of his sexual orientation – his own admission if not in so many words. Strange how the bigger the cheat the smaller the punishment. Why is the Government so desperate to get him back on board?
I don’t have much sympathy for him or his excuse really. If he genuinely wanted to keep his relationship secret he could have simply not bothered to claim the rent he was paying as expenses. After all, he is a multi-millionaire who didn’t need the taxpayers help to pay his rent. I think it was generally accepted that he was good at his job and would be thorough and comprehensive in adminstering the spending cuts,which is probably why they are keen to have him back but he was also a greedy fool and it is all entirely his own fault.