To Be Continued
Picture the scene: you’ve been working for the company for five years and have done well, as well as anyone, what with the over-time—but times are hard; a new mortgage is hard to come by, everything costs more and more every day, and you need to find some way of making money: you need to do this fast. Then you discover that by simply altering a few numbers—things which only you would notice, small, insignificant things that can’t do any kind of damage, not in the grand scheme of things—that money can be made an instant reality.
Six months later there is a knock on your door. It’s two policemen, behind them a van. Except the policemen are not the every-day kind. They are from the fraud-squad, and they would like to talk to you, which involves being woken up from your Luxury designer bedding, being arrested and hauled off to the police station.
That’s the way it should be, is it not, if we are being universally fair, that is? If you have committed an offence such as fraud, you would expect that arrest could be a possibility.
Unless you’re an Mp. The following story, though satisfying in some ways, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
If we’re already going easy on them before the hearing, then what’s to say this will not be carried through into the court-room?
I don’t think it’s enough to simply ask the MPs in question to turn up at the court-house, do you? It seems as though every stage of this process—a process which has already been long and drawn out and only happened at all because a huge fuss was made by the public and the media—has been altered for the sake of people who should have known better. Not only altered, but allowed to run amok: can this be reasonably classified as ‘law and order’?