'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' (William Congreve 1697)
Well, there’s going to be a book, isn’t there? A couple of best sellers for next Christmas shopping list. ‘The Pryce War’. ‘Points unmake Pryces’. The magazine articles: ‘Marital coercion. How to fight back.’ And then there are the talk shows. I can see Piers Morgan rubbing his hands with glee as we speak. Like Jeffrey Archer and Jonathan Aitken before them, Chris and Vicky will survive.
Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce are each now serving an 8 month gaol sentence for perverting the course of justice. There are those who feel that Vicky Pryce should not have been given same sentence as Chris Huhne. There are also those who regarded the judge's comments on Vicky Pryce - 'having demonstrated a controlling, manipulative and devious side to your character' - as being excessively harsh. How will these two very high profile people emerge from this experience?
Ok so they have to serve a prison sentence. By all accounts they are already in an open prison so it’s not exactly the horrors of Holloway, is it? And it’s not as if they’ll never work again, is it? So they have ruined their careers but when they get out you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll be looked after by their own. Like Fred the Shred from the Bank of Scotland. It took him all of 6 months to get a new job after his unseemly dismissal.
Of course what’s ironic is that the inmates in the place where Chris is incarcerated are known for running a little cottage industry. They take penalty points for money. A great wee business idea. What’s a few penalty points to someone who’s locked up most of the week? So next time he speeds through a red light he’ll have no need to coerce Vicky or her replacement. A quick phone call to one of his new BFF and Chris will be free to speed another day.
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