'...this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.'

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Putting a broken man back together again

So another MP has pleaded guilty to charges relating to his expenses, following David Chaytor last week. And these were men who tried to avoid being brought to court by maintaining that they should only be tried by their fellow members of Parliament. Several of David Chaytor's colleagues spoke highly of him as a constituency MP and when he pleaded guilty and was given a custodial sentence he was described as 'a broken man'. Actually he was a broken man while he was living a lie and gaining money by fraud. His guilty plea may be the beginning of his restoration to a proper man - let us hope that it will.