David Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip
David Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip
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Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip
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Who cares I have done this. This person has done far worse.
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You're not a government minister setting laws and determining who can be jailed for what. The hypocrisy is the issue, not how minor the infraction.
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If any attempt to keep his error a secret. You may have a point.
But he was very open about the error. An easy error that many make every year. And fixed by back dating the new licence.
So no. A minister accepting he has the same requirements to address his errors as any other law abiding citizen. Really is not a negative.
PS yes it's been decades since I fished. But historically yes EA inspectors etc allowed expired licence owners found fishing to renew this way.
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Seems a bit of an over the top response.
He wasn't aware he even needed one, and once he was informed he immediately fessed up about it publicly and referred himself to be investigated.
The sentencing guidelines state that the normal punishment for a first offence of this violation is a warning, which is probably what he'll receive.
And Lammy is not the government minister who oversees fishing permits. The government does a lot of things, it's frankly unreasonable to expect every minister to be experts in all areas of the law and everything the government oversees.
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Corruption at the highest levels of government!!