Louise Haigh mobile phone story

[Winot]

View attachment 452852

The second sentence doesn't make sense. It says that investing £1b in bus services, and lowering costs for motorists, are ways in which she has made strides to take the rail system back into public ownership.

Starmer should read U75 more often:

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/so-its-called-the-comma-splice.341740/

 

[tommers]

Even after your sneaky edit, Starmer is just listing three things she's done to 'deliver this government's ambitious transport agenda.'

Still. Should resign.

 

[Winot]

For all his faults, Hitler never bullshitted about losing a mobile phone. Something that's often overlooked when people slag the guy off.

She should have thrown the phone in the sea. That's the approved way of solving these problems.

 

[Hollis]

I am quite impressed with Aviva's internal controls..

The most likely scenario is some shit-hot forensic beancounter identified charges coming through on an old number, identified the culprit and informed HR.

The other mystery here is if you're going to knick a workplace handset surely you at least change the SIM card..

 

[Indeliblelink]

apparently this was known to the party as she admitted it when they were in opposition, which means it was almost certainly leaked to press by internal enemies.

Sky mentioned she has connections to Sue Gray so maybe more fallout from that.

With connections to former Downing Street chief of staff Sue Gray, there has been speculation her cabinet role could be under threat in a future reshuffle.

Ms Gray's son, Labour MP Liam Conlon, is Ms Haigh's parliamentary private secretary and acts as her "eyes and ears" in parliament, while another of her former employees also worked for the former chief of staff before she was sacked after losing a power struggle within Number 10.

As transport secretary, Ms Haigh was one of a handful of cabinet ministers who complained to the Treasury about impending cuts in the budget.

She is considered to be one of the more left-wing members of the cabinet and has vowed to "rip up the roots of Thatcherism" with her plans for rail and bus reform.

In 2015, Ms Haigh was one of a number of Labour MPs to nominate Mr Corbyn for leader - a decision she later said she regretted.

 

[bellaozzydog]

20 something years old, told to just take it on the chin and a conditional discharge is something most 20 somethings would just agree to. Especially if they weren’t of criminal standing/experience.

I’m guessing if she was called Tarquin from the posh school and father was of good standing in the “community” we wouldn’t be talking about this shite now.

I am still feeling the practical and economical real life effects of pleading to something to just make it go away (and getting off with the minimum fine) on the advice of a solicitor.

Absolute bullshit non story they are fucking desperate

If they started fine tooth combing the archives of tory criminality they’d sink the tabloids with overtime payments

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've posted on here before about my late FiL who did such a thorough job of filching stationary when he left his LCC school in 1965 that we still have supplies 59 years later! Top work.

View attachment 452847

You should do the decent thing of returning the stolen goods and make an apology on behalf of your light-fingered FIL.

 

[Saul Goodman]

View attachment 452852

The second sentence doesn't make sense. It says that investing £1b in bus services, and lowering costs for motorists, are ways in which she has made strides to take the rail system back into public ownership.

 

[teuchter]

Starmer should read U75 more often:

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/so-its-called-the-comma-splice.341740/

I don't think this is a comma splice situation. Look at the sentence:

You have made huge strides to take our rail system back into public ownership through the creation of Great British Railways, investing £1 billion in our vital bus services and lowering
cost for motorists.

In a comma splice scenario you can replace the comma with a full stop. That doesn't work here.

 

[teuchter]

Even after your sneaky edit, Starmer is just listing three things she's done to 'deliver this government's ambitious transport agenda.'

That might be what he meant to do, but it's not what he's done. For it to be a list "investing" and "lowering" would have to be replaced by "invested" and "lowered".

 

[CNT36]

I don't think this is a comma splice situation. Look at the sentence:



In a comma splice scenario you can replace the comma with a full stop. That doesn't work here.

How many of the former DPP's sentences are unsafe?

 

[JimW]

I don't think this is a comma splice situation. Look at the sentence:



In a comma splice scenario you can replace the comma with a full stop. That doesn't work here.

Yes, the -ing ending of the latter two verbs doesn't allow that interpretation.

 

[The39thStep]

She was an MP before she was in the cabinet.

Presumably, it was withheld from her constituents.

What is the procedure for declaring a criminal record when elected as an MP?

 

[Spymaster]

I’m guessing if she was called Tarquin from the posh school and father was of good standing in the “community” we wouldn’t be talking about this shite now.

Cor, are you kidding???

If this was Tarquin from the Tory party, this thread would now be 10 pages longer with calls to bring back hanging!

 

[rasputin]

I'm not sure if this has already been said, but the Times reported this last night:

"...what she probably hadn't informed [Starmer] of, was that the employer, Aviva, found multiple instances where she had reported her phone lost or stolen. They investigated off the back of those and the police prosecuted on the basis of one of those incidents."

 

[teqniq]

Cor, are you kidding???

If this was Tarquin from the Tory party, this thread would now be 10 pages longer with calls to bring back hanging!

Not on here most likely you are right - if it had received any publicity. But in the media it would have been buried.

 

[MickiQ]

Cor, are you kidding???

If this was Tarquin from the Tory party, this thread would now be 10 pages longer with calls to bring back hanging!

If it was Tarquin from the Tory party we would be talking about how he had scampered off with £10m in dodgy contracts.

 

[brogdale]

You should do the decent thing of returning the stolen goods and make an apology on behalf of your light-fingered FIL.

You're right, of course, I'm literally on the phone to the LCC at the moment, but they just don't seem to be picking up.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You're right, of course, I'm literally on the phone to the LCC at the moment, but they just don't seem to be picking up.

If the organisation no longer exists, go to the police station forthwith to hand in the stolen goods.

 

[brogdale]

If the organisation no longer exists, go to the police station forthwith to hand in the stolen goods.

Good advice; nice kindly old chap received the goods, muttered something about crime not paying, saluted me and locked up Mrs B in the cells.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Cor, are you kidding???

If this was Tarquin from the Tory party, this thread would now be 10 pages longer with calls to bring back hanging!

I’m guessing you are wilfully misunderstanding my post for comic effect

 

[Wilf]

Again, they've got her to resign because of the bullshitting. Not the act. A bit harsh but probably right to nip it the bud before it gets bigger.

The issue is who grassed her up. Events were already in motion before she came out with her unlikely story about the solicitor advising her to say nothing. I'm not taking it as read that it was Starmer/Labour who grassed her up, could have been someone at Aviva or a plod for example. Starmer is certainly shitty enough to send a creature to whisper in the ear of a Times journo, though my punt would be P & O setting private investigators on the case and finding something either from Aviva or the cops.

 

[Wilf]

The other mystery here is if you're going to knick a workplace handset surely you at least change the SIM card..

Wondered about that myself. The phone would have had no value to her until that was done.

 

[Wilf]

What is the procedure for declaring a criminal record when elected as an MP?

'Dear constituents, just wanted to let you know I don't have a criminal record. It's spent'.

 

[gentlegreen]

Are corporate phones forever traceable by the IMEI even if they're rooted ?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Good advice; nice kindly old chap received the goods, muttered something about crime not paying, saluted me and locked up Mrs B in the cells.

View attachment 452862

A good and just result, I think we'll all agree.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Are corporate phones forever traceable even if they're rooted ?
I

Ours have monitoring software on them. So an employer would (these days at least) be able to spot a phone reported to be stolen once it was switched on and tried to connect to the corporate network.

 

[emanymton]

Cor, are you kidding???

If this was Tarquin from the Tory party, this thread would now be 10 pages longer with calls to bring back hanging!

If it was Tarquin from the Tory party I'd be in favour of hanging without any mobile phone nonsense.

 

[Wilf]

Are corporate phones forever traceable by the IMEI even if they're rooted ?

Asking for a friend?

 

[Saul Goodman]

The issue is who grassed her up. Events were already in motion before she came out with her unlikely story about the solicitor advising her to say nothing. I'm not taking it as read that it was Starmer/Labour who grassed her up, could have been someone at Aviva or a plod for example. Starmer is certainly shitty enough to send a creature to whisper in the ear of a Times journo, though my punt would be P & O setting private investigators on the case and finding something either from Aviva or the cops.

My money is on Starmer. He has the look of a proper weaselly cunt, and my cuntometer is honed to perfection.