Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said on the ABC’s Q&A program last night that if the embattled MP was a member of the British parliament, he’d already have been suspended.
He said that if there were “credible allegations” that an MP had committed a serious criminal offence, they are then suspended from their party and would sit in parliament as an independent until the matter is resolved.”The proper thing for the ALP to do is to suspend him [Mr Thomson] because that, of course, prevents it from being tarnished,” Mr Robertson said. “If he’s convicted, ultimately you obviously expel him and he goes to jail for several years.”If he’s acquitted, or if indeed on examination of the evidence it’s discovered, as he’s saying, that he was the victim of a plot, you take him back.”
The Roxon response? “But we haven’t had actually any content. There’s been all this swirling allegation [but] no one actually is aware of what is being alleged in detail.” SMH.
Really?
Well, Ms. Roxon its like this, Craig Thomson, Labour MP for Central Coast … “has been accused of using his Health Services Union credit card on more than $100,000 of private expenses, including paying for prostitutes.”
In fact a Google search of this “Craig Thompson” prostitutes produced this About 62,400 results (0.24 seconds). There has actually been a Fair Work Australia investigation into this matter …
The only likely reason Ms. Roxon is so poorly informed is that she chooses to be. Although as a female might she owe her position to affirmative action?
Or as Tim Blair puts it …
Question: How has decades of affirmative-action feminism changed the notoriously sexist world of Labor politics?
Answer: A female Labor Prime Minister defends rich union leaders who are accused of spending members’ funds on prostitutes and Germaine Greer cracks jokes about Julia Gillard’s arse. For all the difference feminism has made to the left, Emily’s List may as well have been the name of a brothel.
If it was it would be worth checking the credit card receipts …
bobmcgee 