The MP who used his Commons expenses to clear his moat is refusing to pay back thousands of pounds, claiming he is protected by an ancient law brought to Britain by William the Conqueror.
Former Tory Cabinet Minister Douglas Hogg says he and other MPs accused of abusing their allowances are entitled to keep their expenses based on the Norman law of 'estoppel' - derived from the French word for 'bung'. The law stops a person denying the truth of a statement of facts he has previously asserted to be true. The former barrister has spent weeks composing a 15,000-word, 30-page statement setting out his legal stand.
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I have some sympathy for his argument in law; they said it was ok then, how can they say it isn't now?
Still I see that the troughligate old fucker has prepared for his pianowire/lampost moment by supplying his own guiderope, very thoghtfull of him and the embodyment of Noblesse Oblige.
Banned the upper class are very good at that, it's because they donj't live in the real world. It's a wonder he's still not insisting on and I forget the phrase but thge right of the Lord to shag a bride on her wedding night that was featured in 'Braveheart'. Mind you I don't think that looking at him there is a good shag in him.
If he insists on using 900 year old laws does that mean if he loses the case then we can string him up, sack his castle and moat, take all his treasure and shag his missus ? Hang on DL. Could you post a pic of Mrs trougher please. Might have to take a raincheck on the shagging bit.
Willie, I'm not absolutely sure there is a Mrs. You know what these upper class twats are like they have family piles and rentboys.
DL, Droit de seigneur
Banned, Thanks. I'll just go and tell the wee lassie next door, she's to nip through here for a quickie next time Mrs DL is out!
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