Elliott Morley - out after just 4 months..

[max_tranmere]

The former MP Elliott Morley is out of jail after serving just 4 months of a 16 month sentence for fiddling his expenses. I've heard of people being let out after half their sentence, but one-quarter. This is incredible. I saw that he spent his time in Ford open prison in Sussex. Hardly much of a punishment. His name is mud on Westminster, I saw that he was expelled from the Privy Council, the first person to be expelled from there in generations. But no doubt he will cash in on contacts he made whilst in politics and now earn loads of money in the private sector. There really is one rule for them and another for the rest of us. If Joe Bloggs has done this he would have spent a lot more than 4 months inside.

[David Johnson]

Couldnt agree more, Max.

As far as I can recall all the MPs/peers who have been released of late have been let out after serving just a quarter of their sentence.

Given the uproar in the House of Commons when Ken Clark wanted to introduce measures where standard sentences could be reduced by half if the defendant pleaded guilty, then it does indeed seem one law for politicians and another for the rest of us.

Cheers
D

[max_tranmere]

For every one of these that is punished, another 50 get away with it. And I'm being generous to say it is as low as 50.

[Jonone]

Generally for Civil Servants this would be a disciplinary offence and in a climate of cost cutting possibly a sackable one. Why should it not be so for MP's ?

[max_tranmere]

Jonone, many Civil Servants get away with blue murder as they are less in the public eye and are therefore less scrutinsed than Ministers. I mentioned on another thread recently that I was a Civil Servant for many years in a large Government department, a stone's throw from Parliament Square. The corruption I saw was breath taking. The ones who got promoted the fastest were the ones who cared the least and who were out for themselves the most. If you work in Whitehall and you care about what you are doing, and are conscientious, you won't get far.

[Dave Wells]

Yet another rich CUNT getting away with it. BENT Britain !