Paul White and the eternal trough
Regarding this noble “Lord”, what happened about the second case he faced over spending in the region of £260,000 of taxpayers money by using a council gifted credit card?
On a technicality he has managed to claim more taxpayers’ money for wrongful arrest and whilst the law is obliged, as the case has been dropped, to pay him “compensation” for his hurt the whole thing stinks of casual use of taxpayers’ money by him and equally by the Essex County Council whom it would appear could not pursue the case because they were at fault for giving him the right to sign off his own expenses.
If this is true then someone should be prosecuted for negligence over the use of the public purse although it’s doubtful that would be the CE who’s been having expensive dinners with him.
These payoff’s and write downs with “other peoples money” are seemingly endless with nary anyone ever responsible especially in the public sector.
A few words in parliament on occasion or a condescending address from a junior minister along the lines of: “It must stop,” or the oft repeated lessons will not be learnt and everybody goes back to the trough.
This one has managed to top all of them by saying all he wants to do is represent the people of Essex back in the House of Lords.
Really? When did anyone represent the people of Essex in that place? You really couldn’t make up. I mean just how is he able, without so much as an admonishment from TPTB, be able to get back on to the expenses train after what has happened. There isn’t enough piano wire to go round.
Do you believe in karma, that eventually someone gets his just desserts?
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‘he has managed to claim more taxpayers’ money for wrongful arrest’
Rather calls into question his statement back in November; “I am relieved that this chapter has closed” – not so closed as all that, then, your Lordship?
Still, it’s in character; this is the man who told a court: “I do not lead an extravagant lifestyle. [...] I enjoy the occasional glass of wine but that’s about it”? – having used his council credit card to pay for, among other things, £150-a-head dinners chez Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein, a day at the races (£230), a £1,180 spa break in Hampshire and ‘£107 on drinks for four in Hot Springs, USA’ .
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Corruption only works as long as the benefits of being “on the take” outweigh the consequences of getting caught. As soon as the consequences become real (in that someone gets in major trouble), then everyone starts to talk.
The stories about Greece, Spain, Italy and this one reveal that we have entered the stage at which people have begun to talk about corruption right across Europe.
However, I no longer have faith that the Judiciary have either the will or the cahones to do the job for which they took an oath.