According to BBC1 10 O' Clock and BBC2 Newsnight, the BBC has learned that tomorrow the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will not be prosecuting anybody involved in the cash for honours scandal. There will be no charges for illegally selling honours, no charges for perverting the course of justice, and no charges for obstructing the police in the course of their duty. The witch-hunt has already begun, the devil of the piece is Angus McNeil MP, according to Denis McShane MP, who came across as a complete prat on Newsnight. I only hope that the police will now charge him with wasting their time.
Michael Crick claimed that the Defence would argue that they had not been properly advised what they could and couldn't do under the law by the Election Commission and the House of Lords Appointments Commission. So, the legal maxim "ignorance of the law" has been overturned by a politician appointed to head the CPS.
Also overturned is the legal principle, established since Charles The First lost his head, that nobody is above the law. A politician has now decided that politicians are above the law. Lord Levy can do no wrong. I suspect that Charles The First is turning in his grave at the injustice he suffered at the hands of the executioner under orders from Parliament. At the very least he should be given a posthumous Royal pardon.
There is another principle of law that has suffered, nobody should be a judge in his own cause. The Labour Party has judged the Labour Party to be not guilty.
Angus McNeil MP raised a good question, he would like to know what advice the police gave the CPS in relation to whether anybody should be charged.
BBC story here.
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The CPS and the labour party should start a trouser factory together. It appears that they are pretty good at stitching things up.
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