Louise Haigh mobile phone story

[Hollis]

Whether or not it should be a story, I'm interested as to why the solicitor would recommend her to please guilty and not to comment during the interview.

Can't believe this advice would have been given unless there was something untoward as to how she had handled the loss and subsequent discovery.

Louise Haigh has conviction for fraud by misrepresentation relating to a mobile

 

[PR1Berske]

"The incident happened when Haigh was in her 20s"

I've a real problem with this kind of archaeology disguised as journalism.

 

[brogdale]

Whether or not it should be a story, I'm interested as to why the solicitor would recommend her to please guilty and stay silent under oath.

Can't believe this advice would have been given unless there was something untoward as to how she had handled the loss and subsequent discovery.

Louise Haigh has conviction for fraud by misrepresentation relating to a mobile

Her days were numbered once she blurted out the truth about P&O being cowboys and the the tool-maker's son threw her under the bus to cosy up with DP World. Nothing "emerges" without reason.

 

[Hollis]

Yeah - I mean if you wanted a more modern work phone, surely an accidental coffee spillage or dropping it in the bog could effortlessly achieve the required result..

 

[Elpenor]

No real idea about her wider politics, but she seems to have been passionate in the transport brief, and pro public transport and pro worker from what I’ve seen so far which are big ticks as far as I am concerned

feels less of an issue compared to thousands of pounds of free stuff trousered by Starmer

 

[Cerv]

this does really seem like scaping the barrel as far as political scandals go. what's next? labour MP skipped a train fare once?

Yeah - I mean if you wanted a more modern work phone, surely an accidental coffee spillage or dropping it in the bog could effortlessly achieve the required result..

IT depts are on to you if you try that. not give you a new device but give you an old one that someone else has handed back when they left or were upgraded.

 

[Hollis]

this does really seem like scaping the barrel as far as political scandals go. what's next? labour MP skipped a train fare once?


IT depts are on to you if you try that. not give you a new device but give you an old one that someone else has handed back when they left or were upgraded.

Tell me about it! I drenched my laptop with coffee and ended up with an older machine: but this is why I find it hard to believe you'd declare a mobile stolen in order to get a newer model - as it being claimed by 'the sources' here..

 

[Saul Goodman]

this does really seem like scaping the barrel as far as political scandals go. what's next? labour MP skipped a train fare once?

But politicians should be beyond reproach...

 

[Derek S-H]

"The Conservative party chair, Nigel Huddleston, told Sky News the revelations were “extremely concerning”."

What, more concerning than Michelle Mone? Or fast tracking their mates with dodgy PPE contracts? Or writing them off with a shrug?

 

[MickiQ]

Reading the story, my response would be who the fuck cares? Either she tried to blag a better phone or it was just a genuine mistake. The idea that it's concerning is just plain daft.
One thing I'm really puzzled about is the line that Plod called her in for questioning after she turned the old phone back on.
Do they really expect us to believe that Plod put any effort whatsoever into tracking down a stolen mobile phone?

 

[Wilf]

Whether or not it should be a story, I'm interested as to why the solicitor would recommend her to please guilty and not to comment during the interview.

Can't believe this advice would have been given unless there was something untoward as to how she had handled the loss and subsequent discovery.

Louise Haigh has conviction for fraud by misrepresentation relating to a mobile

Yep, I don't give a flying fuck about what she did, but the brief's advice sounds very odd. Unless, as you say, there's more to the story. Even then, I don't give a fuck even if she really did try to blag a new phone.