Been trying to avoid replying to this thread. Cos I won't have these scum raising my blood pressure. However,
but it is not quite as bad as that African leader (sorry - must have old timers disease - I can't remember the name OR the country - sheesh am I embarrassed? ...Danie where are you?) who was recently re-elected and changed the laws so that he could not be prosecuted on various counts of corruption whilst still in office?
Also Prime minister of Italy Berlusconi also Italys richest man, is protected by a similar law. The plan being by the time his premiership ends the 3 year limit for prosecutions on his (alleged) crime will have expired. A similar law has existed quite some time in France and protected their pm. David Mills, the husband of our Tessa Jowell, British minister for, the olympics and 'goodness knows what else' was sentenced to about 4 years (which he is unlikey to serve) for accepting about £3 million in bribes to withhold evidence that would incriminate italys pm Berlusconi. Incredibly, Jowell claimed that when her hubby paid off the huge mortgage for their house she really didn't question for a moment where the money came from.
It would seem, our British home secretary, Jaqui Smith, guardian of law and order has been collecting living allowances that 'could be questionable' ie she claims the spare bedroom in her sisters apartment in London (where Jaqui stays 2 or 3 of days week, during parliament) is her main residence and the large country house in which her husband and children live is a secondary residence, for which she claims, 'living away from home' allowances (tax payers money). This is remarkably like the sort of deception her department locks up common, dodgy, benefits claimants in jail for. I am disgusted, but not surprised. Just everyday relevations in current european governments, I'm afraid.
