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Isn't the SNP in the process of abolishing prison sentences of 18 months or less, to make sure even more human excrement have cause to walk into a polling booth and vote for the party of power?

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The legal profession must be fully employed defending the indefensible....

 

Brexit party chairman demands compensation from SNP MEP over "money laundering" comments

 

Published: 18:05 Thursday 06 June 2019

 

The Brexit Party's chairman is demanding compensation and an apology read out in the High Court over alleged defamation by SNP MEP Alyn Smith.

Lawyers acting for Richard Tice are threatening to sue Mr Smith for claiming the Brexit Party was "a shell company" that was a "money laundering front" as he gave a TV interview after being re-elected in the European elections.

In a pre-action letter sent to the MEP, legal firm Wedlake Bell said the comments represent "a direct assault on the integrity of our client and strikes at the heart of his professional and business reputation".

Although Mr Smith did not mention Mr Tice by name, the law firm claims the Brexit Party chief "has become a very prominent figure with a high public profile", and added: "There is clearly a strong reference innuendo identifying Mr Tice as the subject of the accusations."

The pre-action protocol letter to Mr Smith effectively acts as a final warning before legal proceedings are started.

Mr Tice has demanded that, to prevent legal action, Mr Smith pays "substantial damages" to compensate for damage to his reputation, covers legal costs, and makes a statement in the High Court in London unreservedly withdrawing the comments and pledging not to repeat the allegations.

The law firm has given Mr Smith a deadline of 5.30pm on Tuesday June 11 before High Court proceedings are started.

Mr Smith referred to the case of Goldsmith and Another v Bhoyrul and Others in 1997, which established the legal precedent that political parties do not have the power to sue in defamation proceedings.

He also called for a "full, open, and transparent independent inquiry" into the funding of Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party.

The remarks were broadcast on Sky News in the early hours of Monday May 27, before the official results from the European election in Scotland were announced, in which the Brexit Party won the second-highest share of the vote (14.8%) behind the SNP which had 37.8%.

The SNP had three MEPs elected, including Mr Smith, compared with the Brexit Party's one European representative for Scotland.

Mr Tice, who founded Leave Means Leave, was elected for the first time as an MEP in the 2019 election to represent the East of England constituency.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/brexit-party-chairman-demands-compensation-from-snp-mep-over-money-laundering-comments-1-4942769?fbclid=IwAR2fJbH2JO6oFOozBWAnBPqBCRt0OoiZ656JuCNDGI3j94bzVgxV5Me6mzE

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If as the Scottish government propose to stop the 18 month sentence then solicitors defending their client's who can expect that sentence will be telling them just to plead guilty maybe they should just up it to two years with no time off for good behaviour or anything else .

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The great and the good (the grating and the unco' guid) seem to be united in denunciation of the gaol sentence imposed on this thief McGarry. 

I cannot fathom why; after all, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. 

Moreover, she was found guilty, after due process, of purloining monies raised by public subscription -to all intents and purposes public cash- and entrusted to her care. Not only did she steal it, she did so by breaching her position of trust, which seems, to me, if anything, to magnify the offence. She spent some of this money on a continental holiday. 

 

The woman is a common thief, her problem being caught; maybe she is stupid enough to think that she would get away with it; maybe she thought her political position and influence, and her inflential friends and colleagues, would help in this regard; maybe she thought that she stole public money, and thus, the theft did not matter;  but, whatever passed through her tiny mind, she was done like a kipper, and should, like similar miscreants, face her punishment. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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She was given umpteen chances to talk to WfI about the missing money but refused on each occasion. She becomes an MP and was in a position I would have thought  to pay the money back, but again no contact with WfI. Where did her husband think the money was coming from? I just don’t get people like her e.g. Sheridan, Aitken etc. Is it an ego thing that they just cannot own up and end up worse off and in jail?

 

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