Guest 1footinthegrave Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 The disgraced former Energy Secretary – who was jailed for perverting the course of justice – has been appointed European chairman of Zilkha Biomass Energy on a reported salary of £100,000 to work TWO DAYS A WEEK The role was cleared by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, which advises David Cameron when former ministers and senior civil servants seek jobs in industry within two years of leaving government. ;-) He was released in May after serving only 62 days of his sentence. This means that, in effect, Mr Huhne has landed his job three months before his original sentence is over. ;-) Still on licence just months after his early release from prison, Chris Huhne has landed a lucrative job in the industry he oversaw as a minister. ;-) At least he's demonstrated he is an individual that can be relied upon to tell the truth. :-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkc Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 1footinthegrave - 2013-08-12 1:24 AM The disgraced former Energy Secretary – who was jailed for perverting the course of justice – has been appointed European chairman of Zilkha Biomass Energy on a reported salary of £100,000 to work TWO DAYS A WEEK The role was cleared by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, which advises David Cameron when former ministers and senior civil servants seek jobs in industry within two years of leaving government. ;-) He was released in May after serving only 62 days of his sentence. This means that, in effect, Mr Huhne has landed his job three months before his original sentence is over. ;-) Still on licence just months after his early release from prison, Chris Huhne has landed a lucrative job in the industry he oversaw as a minister. ;-) At least he's demonstrated he is an individual that can be relied upon to tell the truth. :-S So it appears that THEY are all in it together. >:-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveH Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Oh yes - indeed they are. He was in the pocket of such energy companies before his conviction for lying. So no surprise here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Can't say I'm surprised *-).....................after all he appears to have the perfect attributes for big business >:-) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 pelmetman - 2013-08-12 8:45 AM Can't say I'm surprised *-).....................after all he appears to have the perfect attributes for big business AND politics and government >:-) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Tracker - 2013-08-12 10:00 AM pelmetman - 2013-08-12 8:45 AM Can't say I'm surprised *-).....................after all he appears to have the perfect attributes for big business AND politics and government >:-) .......... Now you've done it Rich 8-)............HE who must be obeyed won't like you tarring the authorities with sleaze and greed :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1footinthegrave Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 And they wonder why some of us hold politicians in so little regard. :-( most ex cons waltz into a two day week 100k jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveH Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 1footinthegrave - 2013-08-12 11:08 AM And they wonder why some of us hold politicians in so little regard. :-( most ex cons waltz into a two day week 100k jobs. The one difference here with Huhne is that right to the end he was of the opinions that the "system" would get him off. As it had other parliamentary liars and cheats. Have a look at this article dealing with the Mortgage Fraud perpetrated by Peter Mandelson ........................... "The story below is another graphic example of how elites can get away with murder. It was published in the magazine The Individual in July 1999 under the title of ‘Elite Mischief’ It deals with Peter Mandelson’s gaining of a mortgage by making a false declaration to his mortgage provider and his taking of a £373,000 loan from a fellow minister in the Blair Government Geoffrey Robinson, a loan he failed to publicly declare as required by the Commons’ own rules. The story exemplifies the way in those with power, wealth and influence manage to live outside the rules and laws which supposedly bind them. For elites laws and rules are for the “little people”, not them. In this instance politicians in the Government, the Labour Party and the Commons’ committee with responsible for disciplining MPs all failed to wholeheartedly condemn Mandelson, investigate his misbehaviour properly (especially the mortgage fraud) or impose appropriate penalties. The civil servant responsible for investigating complaints about MPs, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, refused to press the most damaging parts of the complaints (the mortgage fraud and the failure to declare the Robinson loan) and the police refused to open an investigation. To close the circle, the media also failed to press the matter of criminal charges and tellingly I could get none of the mainstream media to take up the story of the police’s refusal to investigate. The outcome of the protection of Mandelson is that went on to twice return to the Cabinet, received a peerage and got an EU sinecure as one of Britain’s Brussels commissioners. He is now a wealthy man, having benefited from the capital gains on the property he obtained through the mortgage fraud and Robinson’s loan, the considerable salaries drawn from his return to a Cabinet position under Blair; his remuneration as an EU Commissioner and the considerable returns from his autobiography. Those are the wages of elite sin. Robert Henderson ............................... So there we have it - Mandelson lied and committed mortgage fraud - a criminal offence that should have seen him in jail - but instead he got an EU Commissioners post and returned to the Cabinet twice. Any one of us on here who did the same would have done time for it. So one good thing about the Huhne case is that such falsification is harder and harder to cover up. Plus the total $hit was disliked and distrusted by all who met him in equal and copious measures. :-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1footinthegrave Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 I do wonder how many of these folk are Freemasons. :-S or is that not allowed these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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