I note that Denis MacShane was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for
stealing £13,000 of taxpayers’ money.
He pleaded guilty to false accounting, submitting 19 fake
receipts for "research and translation" services. He used the money
to fund a series of trips to Europe, including one to judge a literary
competition in Paris.
He had been Europe Minister under Tony Blair, and gave a
multi-language reply to the judge as he handed down the sentence, saying that
McShane would have to serve at least half of the sentence: “Cheers”, he said,
followed by “quelle surprise”. How European!
I suppose we should be grateful that at least he has had the
guts to face his trial and sentence without springing a nervous breakdown, or Alzheimer’s
on us, but I find it disconcerting, and worrying that a lad whole stole two
bottles of water after one of the riots in London a couple of years ago, got
exactly the same sentence as this man who wilfully stole £13,000.
Hang em high!
ReplyDeleteThey seem to live in a parallel universe.
DeleteThe Scottish Mrs Thatcher, Harris, is, of course, quite mad.