Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, has received a fine of £350 after pleading guilty to driving without due care and attention.
Ms Harman has had three points added to her driving licence, having reversed her Rover 75 into a parked car while using her mobile phone in Camberwell last July.
However, a second charge of driving while using a mobile phone was withdrawn.
The House of Commons leader and equality minister has now amassed a total of nine points on her licence, the first six coming from a speeding charges in 2007 and 2008.
Motorists with 12 points face a driving ban.
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Re: Labour deputy gets three points
Or, corrupt MPs making claims for expenses they are not entitled to claim for.
Back when the MP expenses scandal broke, I remember a senior Met spokesperson saying in grave tones that they'd be looking into the likes of Elliot Morley (the Labour MP who claimed mortgage expenses he wasn't entitled to claim for. Also known as fraud.). To date? Not a sound, not a word, not a whisper.
What are our police (and, note to our police apologist, they are our police - we pay their wages) actually for?
Re: Labour deputy gets three points
How about overlooking assaults committed by householders on intruders who have broken into their homes ???
Re: Labour deputy gets three points
I have just read the report of the court case in today's 'The Times'. Accepting that you only get a summary of a case in a newspaper I am still left wondering why she was prosecuted. It was apparently a low speed manoeuvre (virtually 0 mph) that caused no damage to an empty, parked vehicle nor were there any injuries.
A few weeks ago I was in a queue on a slip road which had a slight up-hill incline. The car in front started to roll back slowly, but despite three loud 'toots' it bumped into my front bumper (again at virtually 'nil' mph). I don't know whether the driver was using a mobile or that he/she was simply distracted (morning rush-hour) but he/she did not get out of their car and when the lights changed simply drove off. I noted the car's make, colour and registration number, time and location but as there was no discernible damagae to my car I let the matter lie. Any thoughts on what the police would have done if I had reported the incidenT? Euverem