Or, indeed, "Go to the Mirror", as I urge this particular Tommy to do in the near future.
Trotskyist campaigners for Scottish independence (work that out - but of that, another time) do not naturally arouse my sympathy. But perjury is a staggeringly common offence, yet you can probably name precisely three people who have ever even been put on trial for it, all of whom happen to have been convicted: Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitken and Tommy Sheridan.
All out-of-fashion politicians. All convicted for having extracted money from major media interests, whereas nothing at all will happen to you if you perjure yourself in a murder trial. And in Sheridan's case, the man who sacked one of Scotland's two highest-paid advocates in order to beat the other one in court. Well, we can't be having that. Can we?
And on whose evidence was Sheridan convicted? Why, that of Andy Coulson. So, will Sheridan's release be enough to bring down the man who brought Coulson to the heart of government? If not, then what in the world will be?
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Insightful.
ReplyDeleteBarring a passing reference by myself in a comment over at the Coffee House when this scandal broke, I think that this might be the first blog since then to visit this particular aspect of this whole obscene mess.
Have you seen this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14062867
What sort of odds would you give on Coulson ending up behind bars?
I think that I may have neglected to sign that last comment...?
ReplyDeleteKennybhoy