Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea
Louise Haigh admitted on Thursday she had pleaded guilty to an offence after incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.
Meanwhile in America, it’s practically a requirement of office to be a convicted felon.
USA: the stitocracy
I must be missing something. What's actually the crime or scandal here?
Haigh: "Help, I've been mugged"
Police: "What did they take?"
Haigh: "I can't remember exactly what was in the bag, I guess my money, my bank cards, my keys, my work phone"
Police: "Ok"
Haigh: "Oh, wait a minute, my work phone was at home, they only threatened me, assaulted me and took the other stuff I mentioned"
Police: "Your list was wrong? Ha! Then it is YOU who is the criminal, not them!"
Government, ten years later: "Also, you're not allowed to fix our railways or have a job"
Tories: "Unlike all our politicians who merely do things like millions of £s of fraud, destroying the economy and endangering the lives of millions of people for their own personal profit - this horrific excuse for a human once put something in a list and then realised it shouldn't have been on the list, so a decade later, it's only correct that they shouldn't be allowed to have a job"I assume I've missed something key here.
I think the issue was she didn't update the police when she found the phone at home.
That's what they're saying... but... so what? Did the police waste hours and millions hunting for a lost mobile phone? Did she receive an ill-gotten temporary replacement mobile phone from work for a few weeks? I'm still struggling to see the scandal or crime.
Louise Haigh quits as transport secretary over phone offence https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxy1kp73y9o