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Christian former Labour whip facing possible prison sentence over speeding lies

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The (now independent) Member of Parliament for Peterborough was found guilty of perverting the court of justice following a retrial in December.

The Old Bailey heard evidence the MP was texting as well as speeding on the evening of Monday 24th July last year, during the summer recess.

The 35-year-old solicitor was clocked going 41mph in a 30mph zone in the village of Thorney near Peterborough.

The prosecution alleged she went on to collude with her brother Festus to avoid a speeding ticket.

The court was told she was sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) to fill out, but it was sent back naming the driver as Aleks Antipow, an acquaintance of Festus, who was away visiting his parents in Russia.

Festus, 34, from Cambridge, pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice over speeding, including for the July 24 incident.

The siblings will be sentenced at the Old Bailey by Mr Justice Stuart-Smith on Tuesday.

In the wake of the guilty verdict, Onasanya was expelled from the Labour Party and has launched an appeal against her conviction.

If she is sentenced for a year or more, she will automatically lose her seat and if the sentence is less than a year then she could face a recall petition – where her constituency could recall her from parliament and trigger a by-election if 10 per cent electorate sign the petition.

A by-election could be a close and…

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The key to serenity in a chaotic culture

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The key to serenity in a chaotic culture

Did you hear about the Pennsylvania man who has a registered emotional support alligator?

Joie Henney says his pet, Wally, likes to give hugs. Henney told reporters that his doctor gave him approval to use the five-foot-long alligator for emotional support rather than go on medication for depression. He frequently takes Wally to senior centers and minor-league baseball games. “He’s just like a dog,” he told a woman recently. “He wants to be loved and petted.”

When I read about Wally, I thought of an Indonesian woman who was keeping Merry, a fourteen-foot crocodile, as a pet. Earlier this month, she was killed and partially eaten by the animal.

There’s an old story about a scorpion and a frog who met on the bank of a stream. The scorpion asked the frog to carry him across the water on its back.

The frog asked, “How do I know you won’t sting me?”

The scorpion said, “Because if I do, I will die too.”

The frog was satisfied, and the two set out across the water. Midstream, the scorpion stung the frog.

As the frog started to sink, knowing they would both drown, it gasped, “Why?”

The scorpion replied: “It’s my nature.”

The danger of euphemisms

Renaming reality doesn’t change reality.

What proponents call the “sexual revolution,” the Bible calls “sin.” Mary Eberstadt documents the devastation of this “revolution” for women, families, the elderly, and victims of pornography and sexually transmitted disease.

“Death with dignity” is still death. The “product of conception” is how Planned Parenthood describes a baby in its mother’s womb. What Nazi Germany called the “Final Solution,” we call the “Holocaust.” (Israelis call it the “Shoah,” meaning catastrophe.)

Euphemisms are useful in anesthetizing us to reality. But when the patient wakes up, the pain returns.

Every four years, the Director of National Intelligence produces a document called the National Intelligence Strategy. The Washington…

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Christian Labour former whip facing possible prison sentence over speeding lies

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Christian Labour former whip facing possible prison sentence over speeding lies

The Member of Parliament for Peterborough was found guilty of perverting the court of justice following a retrial in December.