Hardly worth the cost of a trial

dreamdaisy

I couldn't agree more. Where is the deterrent element of punishment? It really doesn't exist now. DD

daylily

Ah but DD the punishment would be far harsher if it was you or I that committed the same crime. :!:

barbara12

I totally agree Del, they knew they had to give a prison sentence, or else everyone would have been in uproar....wonder what the next ones will get for pleading not guilty... :x
and where are the rest of them, apparently it is down to three now.....have I got it wrong , I am sure there were far more then that at the beginning.
Do the ones that payed there money back get off with it...we wouldn't

livinglegend

18 months was the absolute minimum that the judge could give as the tariff for fraud is 18 months to 7 years. Apparently MPs don't just fiddle expenses and prison time, but he now claims to suffer from depression. All crooks suffer from depression at the thought of prison time. Or at least they should.

The RBS chairman will not be paid his bonus in cash, but in shares. So where is the loss in a £1.2million 'bonus for failure' when he trades (cashes) them in?

Joseph 8)

mellman01

The problem is fraud within the wheels of power and money is so endemic it’s not even seen as such but a right these days, the very banks we were forced to bail out knew the loans they were pushing were as toxic as hell but went along with it anyway as they were bonus driven and the bosses ran the whole house of cards so were the ones who would take most of the rap.
It’s not good enough for MP’s to say we didn’t know what was the consequences of serious debt, any moron could see it coming, then to rub salt into the wounds they then all start jumping up shouting that they have the answer to all our problems!, the same idiots who couldn’t see it coming now suddenly claim they are omnipotent
The same argument was put forward when it came to the outcry for bankers heads to role, we were told “if we sack or prosecute them for mall practice we will do more damage as these people are the financial markets talent”, yeah the same twats that ripped us off get to keep their jobs and we bail them out of all the damage they did and the first thing they did with all our cash was pay themselves bonuses not a bad gig if you can get it.
The last people we should have running the markets are this lot, if they didn’t see it coming then they were totally incompetent and shouldn’t ever be allowed near a bank let alone anyone else’s money, and if that isn’t the case then they were complicit in a massive fraud/scam so should be inside but they walked away with their jobs bonuses and now they have us in their pockets!.
And as for this MP going inside well he was a Patsy and nothing else ,Jesus him getting done was akin to a lizard shedding it’s tail so it the rest of them can escape, they gave us the slip and we allowed them to get away with it, thing is if we all went up to London and marched they wouldn’t hesitate to set their thugs to beat us all back into submission and the shires, Democracy died here the day the common people were no longer able to physically use force to kick out any corrupt group out of office at the point of a sword, now they have all the weapons and we have none. They have us where they want us and the know it.