Sewel

[SeaJayPea]

Lie under oath in court and you keep your seat in the House of Lords despite the four year prison sentence. Fiddle your House of Lords expenses and go to jail and you keep your seat. Get found guilty by The Sun of shoving a bit of white powder up your nose and you have to resign. Double standards?

[jno]

it is a bit odd. Cocaine is illegal, though for all I know it could have been washing powder he was snorting. But he didn't have to resign, I suppose he could have brazened it out as the likes of Archer did.

[Slapshot]

be a civil servant, get shafted year on year in terms of pay and pensions, make a claim for expenses thats two pounds over and have the fraud unit all over you....

[RandyMarsh]

Big companies don't pay tax on vast profits but HMRC are coming after you for what you made on EBAY last year.

[dave50]

Anyone know who the BBC presenter is that he reckons to have had sex with?

[-Talbot-]

Jimmy Savile.

[Peter Pedant]

resign from the Lords and you get no pension apparently
has he been paid off ?

( like Speaker Martin who was prevailed upon to resign to avoid getting impeached and turned up in the House of Lords ! )

[dave50]

No Talbot, he says it was a young lady.

[-Talbot-]

Do you really expect ABers to start posting names?