Travelling into town to partake of a few sherberts in a drinking house of my acquaintance, I happened to pick up the Evening Standard. Being an infrequent reader of the printed press, there was much that caught my eye, not least the very different emphasis on news presented therein compared to what I stumble across within my daily RSS feeds. However it was a fortuitous day to read a paper as Mr Huhne had just been charged, and a certain detail within that article did make my wonder (just as it did Fausty). Mt Huhne is a multi millionaire, though obviously not the bad kind like one of those nasty bankers. So will he take the seventeen grand severance pay he’s entitled to for stepping down as a minister? He does after all have many upcoming legal bills to pay, and I’m sure it’s a totally different situation to bankers bonuses or honours – after all neither of those bankers where charged with anything. If he does take it there then arises another interesting question, assuming he’s innocent as claimed and returns to a ministerial role would he then pay it back?
The other wonderful gem of actual rather than potential hypocrisy the paper presented, which I’ve not yet seen elsewhere, was those charming people down at occupy London decided to occupy a scout hall. That’ll teach those evil capitalist scouts, after all they were only planning on using the hall for a fund raiser for the homeless. The Occupy lot claim it was vacant, but which I presume they simply mean there was no one there when they put to use those occupy bolt cutters. The police of course can’t do anything as they can’t prove the people currently inside squatting broke in, and committed the criminal damage inside. The terribly nice squatters have said they can leave any time but don’t want to until they “leave [their] mark on the community” – apparently depriving a community of it’s scout hall and causing a “reasonable amount of damage” isn’t enough, nope they’re “planning on holding an exhibition” before they leave. They do say that they didn’t do any damage, so obviously the locks broke themselves, as did the cupboards and shelves. Interesting how they’ve not yet managed to actually occupy anywhere that would actually inconvenience that horrid 1% they claim to be protesting about.
Obviously I’m sure that this occupation of a convention warm building had nothing to do with the forecast of snow – which is currently falling.
