General Chat

They have both disgraced themselves, their families and especially their children, five in total from Vicky Pryce's marriages.

" In 1972 she married an LSE academic with the surname of Pryce, whom she divorced in 1981, having had two daughters with him.

In 1984, Pryce married Chris Huhne, who later became an MEP and then the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. They had three children together. They divorced in January 2011.

She is currently in a relationship with the ex-minister and former Labour MP Denis MacShane, who resigned as an MP in 2012 due to submitting false expenses invoices stemming from the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal."

Great choice of third partner, lie down with dogs and you get fleas comes to mind.

They will not get an easy ride in prison - wonder how they will conduct themselves while serving their sentences and afterwards. Not good examples as grandparents or future grandparents, that's for sure.

Shame on them for not pleading guilty and coming clean from the start of the investigation - would have saved a lot of time and money and might have gained them a little more respect, rather than have a lot of dirty linen aired in public and undermining their children's lives as well. Mud sticks, unfortunately.

Liz

Wasn't it established that *plebgate* wasn't all it appeared?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21299860


...as for Huhne and Vicky Pryce......I'm just glad they're being made to pay some of the costs......it was a ridiculous amount of money used up by Huhne lying and trying to get the case kicked out.

Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are just two of a long list of Members of Parliament, Members of The House of Lords, and others who have held senior Public Office (Vicky Pryce was the Joint Head of the Government Economic Service for a number of years), who have ended up in prison in recent years. In my 70 years I have never known anything like it :-(

When you look at the list of those that have been sent to jail, and take into account all the others caught doing creative accounting with their expenses and add to that the recent scandals such as, Andrew Mitchell & Plebgate; the Lord Rennard allegations, it beggars belief that many are still there :-(

All the above plus several still unanswered questions about some of our various leaders personal judgement, is it any wonder that, many people and I am one those, have not a shred of confidence in the integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty of many of our current politicians.

If I may, I will now go into the realm's of fantasy ;-)

Oh that the Sovereign's advisers could recommend that she dissolve Parliament and bar the current lot, on all sides, from ever standing for Parliament again, a total clear out is what is needed ;-)

see now they are wheeling out other MPs who have been to prison, saying how awful it is, how you lose your dignity and so on - well good, it ain't there to be nice now is it - Jonathon Aitken wittering on about his time in clink - who cares

hope they are not going to bring them all out - it could last till Christmas :-D :-D :-D

sadly, the pair I would like to see in the dock,bush and blair have so far escaped the net!

Agree with Lolly. Perhaps the real punishment for them is the alienation of their children. Stupid and selfish actions by both.

Lolly, your dog is lovely :-)

Indeed how the mighty have fallen!!

Pity he didn't fess up 2 years ago and save the taxpayers the costs of bringing him & her to court.

I liked the judges summing up that the only tragedy was self inflicted

"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones".
(Shakespeare's Mark Anthony).

That speed camera at the bottom of the M11 is pointless from the road safety aspect but has generated hundreds of thousands in revenue.
That should pay for their their "holiday" courtesy of Her Majesty.
Maybe when he gets out he will campaign against speed cameras ?

and just think - had he not been "playing away" we would have heard nothing about it and they would have got away with it - truth will out eventually - a woman scorned and all that

Totally agree with you Joeva.

Now don't get me wrong I fully understand the seriousness of their crime but I can't help feeling that a big fat fine would have been better.

At least that way they wouldn't cost us the tax payers for their spell at Her majesty's pleasure.
Von

Good.
What a pair of self-serving bitter beings they are. I feel so sorry for their son.

...and Mitchell should have been charged for the bike incident

In the words of Sir Walter Scott .................

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.............

Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce have been sentenced to jail :-

Chris Huhne - sentenced to 8 months

Vicky Pryce - sentenced to 8 months