My Oh My How The Worm Has Turned - Keith Vaz U Turn

[barney15c]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32435396

[jno]

I suppose he knows more about Janner now, as we all do.

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" (I think that was approximately Maynard Keynes). If we grumble about politicians who always say the same thing regardless of circumstances, we should give a polite cheer when one of them does rethink things.

[Hymie]

Turned enough to make you think that there might be an election coming up in the near future.

[Gromit]

So Vaz supported Janner in 1991, but 24 years later he has a different opinion.

I'm normally the first person to pull politicians up for hypocrisy, but changing your mind over the period of nearly a quarter of a century is probably allowed.

[Svejk]

They should have asked the slippery lard-*** what he thought about election fraud while they were at it.

[cassa333]

Well they prosecute war criminals in their absence so why can't they do it with him.

I think there is a lot of play acting with these very wealthy and influential people. Their lawyers and such like play the medical card. Just look a Gunniess (is that how you spell it?) he was diagnosed with dementia of some sort and then lived the high old life.

[Peter Pedant]

// Well they prosecute war criminals in their absence so why can't they do it with him. //

I am pretty sure they dont in this country Cassa
not even for war crimes

and the countries that DO allow it, France and Italy spring to mind do NOT allow retro active legislation- which the english War Crimes Act is.
The act criminalized in 1999 behaviour left over from the war - and outside the united kingdom - evidentially a pain in the a-r-s-e

swings and roundabouts


If you turn up for a trial and then runa way half way thro - that does NOT count as in absentia

[cassa333]

Oh I thought they did.

Perhaps,they should,bring it in then!!

[DaisyNonna]

'No ongoing risk'
That is not the point
What happened is