All the Tory outrage over Louise Haigh is unbelievably hypocritical given the number of scammers and scumbags on the Tory front benches over their 14 years in power
Tory hypocrisy goes without saying - but doesn't this raise wider issues around the selection process for prospective MPs of *any* party? Under my rules (incl. psychiatric assessment) most of them wouldn't get in.
Plus she did plead guilty and, whatever her reasons for pleading guilty, that's what stands on her record, fairly or not.
I don’t understand why a person who has been convicted of a crime and served the sentence shouldn’t hold office. Is it that a person can’t make a mistake? Perhaps a poor person can’t steal food to feed the family? A person who breaks the law (laws made by the rich and powerful) can never be redeemed? It sounds like another way to ensure that only the rich and powerful can control government (even if many of them are corrupt). From the reports I read, Louise Haigh has got caught up in a police/prosecution scheme that, here in Canada, is used to ensure that poor people, Indigenous people, black people, are put on a trajectory that means they can always be oppressed and they can be picked up and re-victimized by the police at will.
Thomas White was jailed UK the UK in 2012 for stealing a phone, he is still in jail, he got an indefinite sentence that was introduced by the Blair Labour Government, of course who cares, source BBC web news
Not forgetting a couple of instances where confessions were made, but were never prosecuted:
A party leader for hacking offences;
A councillor who used to be an IRA gunrunner.
Tory hypocrisy goes without saying - but doesn't this raise wider issues around the selection process for prospective MPs of *any* party? Under my rules (incl. psychiatric assessment) most of them wouldn't get in.
Plus she did plead guilty and, whatever her reasons for pleading guilty, that's what stands on her record, fairly or not.
All a bit odd really!
I don’t understand why a person who has been convicted of a crime and served the sentence shouldn’t hold office. Is it that a person can’t make a mistake? Perhaps a poor person can’t steal food to feed the family? A person who breaks the law (laws made by the rich and powerful) can never be redeemed? It sounds like another way to ensure that only the rich and powerful can control government (even if many of them are corrupt). From the reports I read, Louise Haigh has got caught up in a police/prosecution scheme that, here in Canada, is used to ensure that poor people, Indigenous people, black people, are put on a trajectory that means they can always be oppressed and they can be picked up and re-victimized by the police at will.
The fact was she never informed the party leader
Oh, corrupt, ill-informed genocidal Israeli defender Grant Craps!!!
Can't believe Starmer accepted her resignation when he is presently arming a genocide. Who's guilty f the bigger crime?
Thomas White was jailed UK the UK in 2012 for stealing a phone, he is still in jail, he got an indefinite sentence that was introduced by the Blair Labour Government, of course who cares, source BBC web news
Best article I've read all week. I'd sooner trust a 'criminal' with a conviction than a serial criminal without one (most tories).
The right does not fight crime, so much as try to guard their own exclusive access to it.
This is pathetic in terms of the scale of all their perfidy isn’t it?