Ryan Kelly, aged 20, from Leahill Croft in Chelmsley Wood, was jailed for six months after admitting looting £3,500 worth of cigarettes from a city newsagent.
David Beswick, of Anson Street, Eccles, who the court heard had been given a 37in television to put in his car, was jailed for 18 months for handling stolen goods.
Stephen Carter, of James Street, Salford, was caught in King Street, Manchester, with a bag of clothes and shoes worth £500. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail for theft by finding.
Callum Marley, 20, who planned to ‘get something nice’ but found there was nothing left to steal by the time he joined a mob in Cash Generator. Marley crawled under broken shutters after looters swamped the Cash Generator pawnbrokers at Oldham Street. He cut himself on glass going in and left an incriminating speck of blood on an ornament. He was jailed for 16 months.
Two Tory peers who were jailed for fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds of parliamentary expenses have been released early after serving only a quarter of their sentences.
Lord Hanningfield, a former frontbench opposition spokesperson and leader of Essex county council, was jailed in July this year after a jury at Chelmsford crown court found him guilty of £13,379-worth of expenses fraud. He was spotted last week by his local paper walking with his dog in his home village of West Hanningfield, Essex.
According to the Press Association, Lord Taylor of Warwick, who was jailed in May for 12 months after fiddling £11,000 of taxpayers’ money, is also out on early release.
Well, you don’t seriously think for a moment that those thieving scum will actually serve anything approaching their full sentences, do you?
I suppose you’re right, I always thought their political chums would let them out. I just thought they might do slightly longer than a quarter of their sentences.
But hang on a minute Bob, what about any Labour MP doing their own accounts?
Any Home Secretaries come to mind?
Gary Elsby… the new David Duff!!!
I see you beloved Leader is accepting Labour spent too much (he now agrees with me) and he is to battle all TU over strikes (ho hum).
Truth is that he stopped Alistair Darling from doing the right thing at the right time and supported Brown’s actions.
It must be very hard for you Bob, but take one for the team.
Nice to see you agreeing with the Labour leader Gary. You’re not trying to toady your way back in are you? Then you would be able to start parroting your agreement with everything they say… again!
You need to make at least some effort to be consistent though, otherwise you just look stupid. One minute I’m a Labour loyalist, next you’re wondering why I don’t agree with the leader.
You see Gary, I don’t make my mind up on the basis of what other people think. Try it sometime.
Gary, what happened to the Tory candidate who stood in your seat? I seem to recall she was previously a belly dancer and quite attractive. If she’s still around I’d be glad if you could pass on my particulars.
If you’re not careful I’ll print your particulars!!!
Oh Bob, you really are a challenge.
I love the Labour Party but I do not love the ‘new’ Stoke version designed by Reilly and the NEC where membership of Labour by a few hours can get you a Cabinet role in our Council and I simply reject the theory that the only way a right wing, David Miliband stooge, Elected Mayor loving, old Etonian can be selected as a candidate if the favourite working class life-long member is kept out of the race by a member of the House of Lords. All this going on in a ‘rebel left wing CLP’ called Stoke (which supported me and my mates 100%).
Old school calls it cheating and I do not wish to be a member of a cheating party but I will be highlighting everything in a 12 Month run in to my next General Election performance which will outspend the whole of the Political Party process combined.
Anytime you want me to put that case to your CLP, just say.
But come on, It was me that said Labour spent too much on Gordon’s drive to get himself into No.10 and the spend had nothing to do with propping up banks or the economy.
Labour butchered our PSBR to the tune of economic bankruptcy causing 1000s of Council workers out and onto the dole.
Nothing at all to do with Cameron, it was Labour and ask Ed for confirmation.
You know I was telling the truth only the other day, and we must assume as a cert, that Ed read my comments on this site and owned up.
What other version could there be?
Telling the truth is what I do and telling lies as spin is not what I do.
You heard it here before you heard it from Ed and people like people who are politically truthful, you’ll see.
Anyway, how about a mention for the Sparkbrook Labour Councillor awarded £200,000 compensation from Labour for another round of cheating.
I count that as everyone challenging Labour in the Courts to a 100% victory.
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Your sums are as wrong on Raghib as we have come to expect elsewhere, but dont let that trouble you. He is a good friend and comrade and I wished him well. He would find your economic assessment as pathetic and simplistic as I do.
Yes, I see that he is awarded £123,000 and that Labour’s legal bill is £500,000.
My economic assesment is wrong?
Ed explained that he would cut jobs and services if he was PM, so how can my assesment be wrong?
Oh, I see, he would only cut a little bit.
A bit like being a little bit pregnant.
End result 1000s of Council jobs down the swanee due to Labour and PM Ed, just like Cameron’s Tories, but a bit nicer.
No, I shouldn’t really say it is wrong, Gary, it’s just George Osborne’s economic analysis.
Shouldn’t you be commenting at ConservativeHome these days? Labour’s strategy was and is to halve the deficit over the life of the parliament. Yours and George’s is to wipe it out over three years and damn the consequence for the workers. That’s your choice, I understand they may be looking for a young Tory for Stoke. Worth trying, eh, being as you’ve got such tremendous local support.
Ahhhhh, now it is all becoming clearer to me.
“Halve the debt within four years”.
Bob, an austerity package (or half a one) is tantamount to a Southern European bankrupt economy begging for a bailout.
If you are suggesting that labour would ‘only’ put half of Council workers on the dole and rubbish half the pensions in the Country, then I’d like to hear that plan.
Fact is that Ed Balls blatantly still refuses to admit that his ‘plan B’ is £12bn worth of cuts.compared to Osborne’s £14bn cuts.
Blame me all you want but it is you politicians that have created our misery and then blame us again by cuts to our vital services.
Remember,uncle Ian and his NEC hatchet men claim I have “No aims and values consistent with the Labour Party” (worth £123,000 by anyone’s standards) but I would not vote to cut a vital service to fund an incompetent who spent money wrongly.
Labour should be honest and spell out slowly how many job losses by their own hand is acceptable to them.
If you are suggesting that labour would ‘only’ put half of Council workers on the dole and rubbish half the pensions in the Country, then I’d like to hear that plan.
I doubt you would, and there’s no real point because you don’t actually engage that section of your brain since your personal bitterness led you to become so infatuated by the Tories…but let’s try anyway. Under the Labour programme we would reduce the deficit at a slower rate, leaving sufficient resources to use towards stimulating growth and public sector projects. Think about it like reducing your mortgage over 20 years as opposed to trying to pay off the lot in two years because ‘you are frightened of the debt’. In that way we would not see the levels of unemployment that you and your new buddies find such an acceptable price to pay. Before the general election the economy had started to grow again, Gideon’s (and your) cunning plan has reversed that and the economy is flatlining.