Look how he\’s briefing the papers through a \”friend\” the day before he gets sent down.
“How can she claim they were in a happy marriage for 25 years and at the same time claim he had made her have an abortion. They were not happily married. They weren’t even sleeping in the same bedroom.
“From Vicky’s own description it is a pretty horrendous relationship. I am surprised she didn’t get the champagne out and say \’thank god I have got rid of you after all these years’. Instead she took out revenge and look where she’s ended up.”
The friend said the series of texts between Huhne and his son had shown him to be a \’loving father’ while the friend questioned how nurturing Pryce can be if she was prepared to allow her children’s father to go to jail.
“It is humiliating for the children to see their father and mother go to jail,” said the friend, “How can that be an advantage for your children to watch their father go to jail?”
In mitigation – to try to get the sentence reduced – Huhne’s barrister will point out that his client has now lost almost everything. The case has cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs, his political career and, even worse, his relationship with his children.
Despite it all, claimed the friend, Huhne is relieved his ordeal is over. “He is pleased that after Monday he will in all probability never have to see her again,” said the friend.
Dear God man, can\’t you even manage to be a gentleman about your ex-wife and the mother of your children?
When he gets out he will still have his money. Nasty piece of work.
I’m sorry.What? He’s supposed to be “a gentleman” about this ghastly woman? Why? Was she under a similar obligation to be “a lady” or something? No? Just a guy thing is it?
I mean seriously. They conspired to evade what was, in fact, a rather trifling crime. Then, for revenge, she decides to tell the press about it, entirely for the purpose of ruining him. And, he’s supposed to be “a gentleman”? Why on Earth? Because she’s a laydeee?
Christ on a bike.
Dear God man, can’t you even manage to be a gentleman about your ex-wife and the mother of your children?
Being a gentleman is so retro, even Brideshead Revisited. We are all modern now. This is just the inevitably consequence of the feminist revolution and other social changes since 1945. Why shouldn’t he do whatever he likes?
Really, why should he be a gentleman to this woman? As Ian B sort of says, there needs to be some reciprocal relationship. She is no lady, he is no gentleman. Thus they deserve each other. Welcome to modern Britain.
Well, he has turned every one else over, why should he stop now ? He owes hundreds of thousands to US, the taxpayer, for monies received while an MP and Minister, living this lie. He had a severance payment when he ceased being a minister, surely that at least should be demanded back ?
I think Pryce had a loyalty, stemming from her being Greek, to her husband. Once he ceased, in his very own noble way, to be that, she decided to get even. She was a powerful woman, which is why she was found guilty, but I hope the judge sees that her background, being NOT British, excuses much of her behaviour. Her matrimonial values are much higher than one would expect of a UK wife.
Alan Douglas
I deleted the paragraph that started “Yes, the man’s a cunt, but so is she…”
Maybe should have left it in.
If someone is really interested in the decline of British manners and mores, they ought to look at the Daily Mail’s article about the girls who took part in a debate at Glasgow University.
This is one of the reasons why I am more and more conservative. You change one bit of society without thinking deeply about it, you change other parts whether you want to or not. We have spent half a century or so attacking British gentlemen and their values as, at best, old fashioned and reactionary. Well, guess what? Young British men aren’t gentlemen any more. Now the feminists want legislation to force them to be. It won’t work. Nor should it. You can’t have half the old society. You can’t simply impose such obligations on men by law. They have to want to observe them and they will only do that if their observation is socially well regarded instead of despised.
Huhne is a shit. A shit’s shit. But his ex-wife is just as bad if not worse. Having dragged their family through the mud like some common tart screaming drunkenly in the street, why should Huhne restrain himself in any way at all?
Although admittedly anonymous background briefings are gutless.
I agree with Tim on this one. Huhne is a morally degenerate and selfish oaf, but then he as a Liberal Democrat so perhaps one shouldn’t be surprised.
SMFS can’t see why he should be a gentleman to this lady, and he and Ian B think there needs to be some “reciprocal relationship”. Well Mr Huhne destroyed that relationship which seemed pretty much one sided from the outset.
She supported him wholeheartedly as he climbed the “greasy pole”:
– It was her income that allowed him the lifestyle to pursue HIS career
– she gave up at least two high profile well paid jobs when they conflicted with HIS career prospects
– she aborted one of her children and he pressured her to abort a second when they conflicted with HIS career prospects
– she even committed a crime for him.
Her reward for all this was to be told, during an advertising break in a televised football match, that he was divorcing her to go and live with his Lesbian secretary.
So as a good little wife she is supposed to have calmly accepted this – I am glad she destroyed his career, even if it is only one fewer hypocritical LD politician .
Well, I dunno. What is a good way to tell the frigid, boot-faced old bag you’re married to that you’re leaving her?
Arthur Dent – “Huhne is a morally degenerate and selfish oaf, but then he as a Liberal Democrat so perhaps one shouldn-t be surprised.”
Hey, as long as he hasn’t been paying rent boys, to sh!t on him, he is way ahead of the pack as far as the Lib-Dems go, but otherwise I agree with you.
“Well Mr Huhne destroyed that relationship which seemed pretty much one sided from the outset.”
Except we don’t know much about the real state of the relationship except what they are both leaking. So perhaps that ought to be kept back until we know more?
“- It was her income that allowed him the lifestyle to pursue HIS career”
He worked in the City before going into politics which is hardly poorly paid. I am sure the money was nice, but it was hardly permissible.
“- she gave up at least two high profile well paid jobs when they conflicted with HIS career prospects”
Which two? Her career does not look to have suffered at all to me.
“- she aborted one of her children and he pressured her to abort a second when they conflicted with HIS career prospects”
She says. And she is so nice as to say so loudly and publicly so that the surviving would-be abortee knows. Class that is. Mind you, does anyone here support abortion *and* think having one is so traumatic that Huhne should never be forgiven merely for mentioning it?
“- she even committed a crime for him.”
She did indeed.
“Her reward for all this was to be told, during an advertising break in a televised football match, that he was divorcing her to go and live with his Lesbian secretary.”
Well she was divorced prior to this marriage so it would be interesting to know how she dropped the bomb shell on her previous husband. And as I understand it, the media told her as they knew first. Still, how does one do this sort of thing? I am totally in the dark I have to admit but I can hardly think of a good way. Was this unusually bad? Daniel Day-Lewis faxed his wife. Besides, every divorce has two parties and we do not know what was going on prior to the affair with the lesbian.
“So as a good little wife she is supposed to have calmly accepted this – I am glad she destroyed his career, even if it is only one fewer hypocritical LD politician .”
Well I will not grieve for the loss to Parliament that is Huhne. Let’s see if he does a Profumo or even a Aitken and does something even vaguely good with the rest of his life. But no one is saying she should calmly have accepted anything. Just that she has young children and this spectacle does not help them one little bit. Just that this is not a dignified or lady-like way to behave. And that she cannot expect much in the way of restraint on the part of pretty boy given what she has done.
There are wives that put up with a lot and deserve honour and praise. Alan Clarke’s wife for instance. That sh!t novelist’s wife. This is not one of them.
IanB: “Well, I dunno. What is a good way to tell the frigid, boot-faced old bag you
FFS! I just remembered why I dont comment here any more… 🙁
SMFS,
“We have spent half a century or so attacking British gentlemen and their values as, at best, old fashioned and reactionary. Well, guess what? Young British men aren’t gentlemen any more. Now the feminists want legislation to force them to be. It won’t work. Nor should it. You can’t have half the old society. You can’t simply impose such obligations on men by law. They have to want to observe them and they will only do that if their observation is socially well regarded instead of despised.”
A lot of feminists want to have their cake and eat it. On the one hand, they say they’re equal to men, and not just “little women”, but somehow, a pair of tits on Page 3 needs to be banned because it undermines them.
The whole thing is going to turn to shit eventually. Too many women have no clue about economics and can easily get their emotional buttons pushed by politicians promising free childcare, jobs for women, eternal amounts of maternity leave and lots of childcare benefits.
Curiously, all my comments seem to be posting fine, apostrophes, tags and all. This is probably simply because I’m totally aw
this reminds me of a line from Roald Dahl’s wonderful “The Twits”.
“But that
what happened there? the full quote reads:
“But that’s enough of that. We can’t go on forever watching these two disgusting people doing disgusting things to each other. We must get ahead with the story.”
“In mitigation – to try to get the sentence reduced – Huhne’s barrister will point out that his client has now lost almost everything. The case has cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs, his political career and, even worse, his relationship with his children.”
What? I really don’t give a flying f**k how members of the elite treat each other and their children but this is pushing chutzpah to the limit.
He resigns his job to “prove his innocence” knowing he’s as guilty as sin and spends money trying to get off the charge on a technicality and only when that fails does he admit the truth. He then asks for leniency because he’s spent a lot of money trying to get off the charge.
Perhaps the most suitable punishment would be to put them both in the same cell…..
I read that Huhne bought a new iPad at the taxpayers’ expense a few days before he resigned…
The Stigler – “Too many women have no clue about economics and can easily get their emotional buttons pushed by politicians promising free childcare, jobs for women, eternal amounts of maternity leave and lots of childcare benefits.”
As we saw with Obama-s re-election. The two strongest groups voting for him were, obviously, African Americans (because racism is only bad when White people do it) and single Mothers. Had America married at the rate they did in the 1950s, Obama would have lost.
Modern politics has indeed come down to makers and takers, but with a nasty racial tinge.
16 SimonF – “He resigns his job to “prove his innocence” knowing he’s as guilty as sin and spends money trying to get off the charge on a technicality and only when that fails does he admit the truth. He then asks for leniency because he’s spent a lot of money trying to get off the charge.”
It is worse than that – he treats his children like crap, exposes them to public humiliation and then argues that their understandable alienation ought to be a mitigating factor. Which, no doubt, it will.
Huhne is a sh!t. A sh!t-s sh!t. Part of the problem that is the decline of Britain’s ruling classes. A pity someone didn-t slip him the proverbial revolver and let him do the honorable thing.
If Huhne had been given the traditional bottle of whisky and mess Webley, he’d have got some poor intern drunk, shot Price, and left the intern holding the pistol.
Lib-Dems – in it for what they can con you in to giving them.
Surreptitious Evil – “If Huhne had been given the traditional bottle of whisky and mess Webley, he’d have got some poor intern drunk, shot Price, and left the intern holding the pistol.”
You know, I always tended to associate that sort of behaviour with the Tories. Somehow I always think of Flashman as a Conservative.
I would vote for him if he did. After all, once we got rid of all the real bastards in British politics, the Empire collapsed and it has been down hill all the way. Besides, that is what interns are for, and if they did not do 7 to 12 they would just grow up to be like Huhne anyway. Best thing that could happen to them really.
“Lib-Dems – in it for what they can con you in to giving them.”
Given their chances of winning, being a Young Lib-Dem (or a Young SDPer I think Huhne was) seems certifiable. On the plus side, it means at the next election they will disappear. On the down side, they will probably be replaced by an even worse party. The Greens most like.
Agree wholly with Ian here. If anyone landed me in jail, I’d be very happy to never speak to them again, and it would entirely outweigh anything nice they’d ever done for me in the past.
FWIW, the LDs won’t disappear at the next election, because they haven’t lost support to the Tories in the seats that were LD/Con marginals in 2010. They will lose their seats (about a third of them) that were LD/Lab marginals in 2010, and keep the rest.
A gentleman would not play the gentleman card.
And being the gentleman is not just a ruling-class class thing: there are working-class gentlemen , which costs them dear because they cannot really afford the obligation of being generous to others.
BTW Huhne was land taxer whom I once saw defend LVT from upper-class yobboes at the IEA in Great North Street,doing so with wit and good humour>Fast forward to now and LVT’s gone mainstream appearing in the Economist Growth Manifesto (9th March) in a form which
closely resembles Huhne’s old election manifesto.
“I think Pryce had a loyalty, stemming from her being Greek, to her husband.” But not to her first husband, obviously.
I don’t think the words “Liberal Democrat” can be used in the same sentence as the word “gentleman”.
Cabinet Minister and Senior Civil Servant: these are the sort of shits who rule us.
He should watch Carrington VC with David Niven. Show him how a gentleman should behave in such circumstances.