Lib Dem MP David Laws Guilty.

David Laws has been found guilty on six charges in relation to false expenses claims. He, or others on his behalf, try to mitigate the offence because he was trying to protect himself and his secret gay lover from media interest. In my opinion that merely compounds the felony. He should resign as an MP immediately.

Interestingly Laws got 55% of the vote in the 2010 general election and 51% in 2005, so would have been elected even under AV. But the Yes2AV campaign claimed that the expenses scandal wouldn't have happened if we'd had AV.

So perhaps somebody who supports AV can explain why getting over 50% under FPTP opens a weak or greedy person to wrongdoing, whereas getting over 50% under AV miraculously removes that temptation?

I only ask because I genuinely don't understand.

Sign Of The Times

The Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset is considering defying the High Court according to this report from the BBC news website.

It seems that hard drives were confiscated in raids in a suspected paedophile case. The High Court have instructed Avon and Somerset police to return the hard drives immediately without, it seems, inspecting them.

The owner of the hard drives is a known paedophile. The police are considering refusing to return them because they think that they probably contain porn.This creates a real dilemma.

Are the police, like us, becoming so disillusioned with the legal process that they are prepared to take the law into their own hands?

Are the police now so seemingly all-powerful that they think they can do what the hell they like?

My view is that they should abide by the decision of the High Court but that we need a healthy debate about the current laws around pornography. Ideally without mass hysteria.