Hi
Simples
Cutbacks by the Justice Department.
Get arrested now and you are looking at 2025 for a defended Trial.
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We donât work that fast 
This tooâŠ
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The MP has been ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.
She has so far resisted calls to stand down.
I shall look forward to reports of her âcommunity serviceâ.
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Community Service?? My goodness, I think he has done more than enough damage to the community with her actions!
I would give her a pair of gloves and a mask (reminding her of her neglect) and get her picking up dog dirt for the next 6 months.
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Harsh ⊠but fair ⊠
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Yes its harsh, but so is knowingly potentially infecting hoards of people and not caring about it 
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How many of us went to work with the flu, or even just a cold knowing we would probably give it to the rest of the staff?
If she had covid proper she couldnât have gone travelling around, when Mrs Fox and me had it we couldnât even walk to our gate, or want to.
So if she wasnât experiencing life threatening symptoms she must have had the vaccines, so whatâs all the fuss. By your logic, she would have only killed people who had not had the vaccine and deserved to suffer.
So she didnât have the same symptoms as you and Mrs Fox did - well we all know by now that this virus affects different people in different ways. Imagine she had passed it onto people she could have visited in a care home, or a school? Or passed it onto people on the train with underlying health conditions and it manifested itself on them a day later.
Your blase attitude shocks me, frankly.
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Blasé ⊠and uninformed or misinformed, too - infected but asymptomatic people transmit COVID-19 just like those with minor or major symptoms. Hence, the need for tests.
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I am not saying that what Margret Ferrier did was right. But to put it into context according to Public Accounts Committee.
The Department for Health & Social Care (DHSC) lost 75% of the ÂŁ12 billion it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in the first year of the pandemic to inflated prices and kit that did not meet requirements â including fully ÂŁ4 billion of PPE that will not be used in the NHS and needs to be disposed of.
How many people did the state put at risk due to contracts being given innapropriatly to friends & family? And what punishment will those who put others at risk due to the system being corrupt face?
Some of the covid contracts were awarded illegally according to the high court 7 months ago. Anyone noticed a rush to prosecute those involved in that?
One company that supplied useless PPE to the NHS, PestFix. Was referred into the government VIP lane for preferential contract treatment after its chair contacted the Department of Health saying he had recently attended the 80th birthday party of its procurement directorâs father-in-law. A Deloitte consultant, assisting with Covid PPE procurement, forwarded the offer to civil servants, writing: âOne for the VIP list please.â
There is nothing to be put into context about travelling around on public transport while you know you are infectious and can pass it on.
Covid & PPE contracts are a different thing
The Tory government and PPE contracts is a topic covered specifically in other threads, most recently:
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Not when it comes to putting people at risk there is not. The only real difference is, one of the acts was carried out by the government for its own & its friendâs financial interests. The other was carried out by a Scottish Nationalist MP.
This is as much about which party she belonged to, as what she did.
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A Westminster probe will now look into whether her actions caused âsignificant damageâ to the reputation of the House of Commons or MPs.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards began an investigation into her conduct on 12 October.
If Ms Ferrier is found to have breached the code of conduct, she could be ordered to make an apology.
The matter could also be referred to the Committee on Standards if deemed sufficiently serious.
Ferrier was an SNP MP at the time of the offence, but subsequently lost the party whip and has been sitting in the Commons as an independent.
She has so far resisted calls to stand down.
Not exactly disciplinary but certainly reproving ⊠
MP Margaret Ferrier should be suspended from the Commons for 30 days for breaching Covid rules, the standards committee has recommended.
The suspension would likely lead to a by-election in her Rutherglen constituency if it was imposed.
Labour would have high hopes of winning any by-election in Rutherglen. Ms Ferrier had a majority of 5,230 at the last general election when she won the SNP for the SNP, with Labour finishing second.
MP Margaret Ferrier has lost her appeal against a proposed 30-day ban from the House of Commons over breaching Covid rules.
The Commonsâ standards committee recommended in March that Ms Ferrier should be suspended.
On Monday, the independent expert panel has upheld the original judgement.
The proposed ban is now expected to be endorsed by MPs, although no date has yet been set for this to take place.
Under commons rules if an MP is excluded for 10 days or more a so-called âârecall petitionââ can take place.
If 10% of the electorate in the constituency call for a by-election, one will take place.
Recall for Ferrier ⊠
The electorate for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in the 2019 general election was 80,918 - therefore just over 8,000 people would have to sign the petition to remove Ms Ferrier.
A petition officer then arranges for the petition to be open for six weeks. According to House of Commons Library, electors can sign it in person at a signing station or by post or proxy. If the 10% threshold is reached the petition officer informs the Speaker of the House of Commons - the seat becomes vacant when this notice is given.
Two MPs have been recalled through this process both in 2019 - Labourâs Fiona Onasanya of Peterborough and Conservative Chris Davies of Brecon and Radnorshire.
Ms Onasanya, who lied to police over a speeding ticket, had been jailed for three months for perverting the course of justice.
Meanwhile Mr Davies had pleaded guilty to two charges of making a false expenses claim.
This will be the first recall petition held in Scotland.
People can campaign for or against recall petitions and the Electoral Commission has rules in place for spending and donations on such campaigns.
Interesting ⊠
So she should ⊠
âCovid Margaretâ reminds me of âTyphoid Maryâ - and she should have resigned last year, in my opinion.
I could hardly believe she had the brass neck to appeal the decision to suspend her from Parliament, considering she has already pleaded Guilty to the criminal charge against her.
When you think of the places where you come into close proximity of other people, she decided to mingle in most of those places after being tested and while waiting for her test results! - Church, the pub, the train, the Houses of Parliament - then when she got her test results and was certain she did have Covid, she got on another train from London to Glasgow, just to spread it around a bit more.
Sheesh!
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Parliamentary conspiracies ⊠