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    Badenoch says hacking into Harriet Harman's website 17 years ago 'not the same' as Reeves breaking law
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    Badenoch says hacking into Harriet Harman’s website 17 years ago ‘not the same’ as Reeves breaking law

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    2. After-Dentist-2480 on

      It isn’t the same.

      Bad Enoch hacked the website fully aware that she was acting dishonestly and wrongly.

      Reeves failed to get the licence because the letting agency handling her let failed to do its job and inform her it was necessary.

    3. do_or_pie on

      > Hacking into websites is a criminal offence and can be punishable with a fine or up to a two-year prison sentence for minor offences, or life imprisonment for the most serious

      I genuinely forgot this story, it’s up there with Grant Shapps using fake names to sell stuff, and Jenrick doing a £50m planning favour for the then owner of the Express for stuff that is buried in the back of my brain.

    4. Electricbell20 on

      She is right

      Malicious intent regarding the misuse of computer act plus I think a few others. Prison time

      Vs

      Negligence of selective license law. Fine

      They really aren’t the same.

    8. Impressive-Bird-6085 on

      What does Badeoch have to say about the serial rule break of the Conservatives 14 years in government, especially by senior cabinet ministers – including the PM – when Johnson was Prime Minster?? When us everyday folk were mandated to stick to the rules they made??

    9. BigMasterDingDong on

      Why does this woman still have a platform? Does she not realise she looks worse saying this..?

    10. Extension_Sun_377 on

      Answer is simply, “mind you, we weren’t having parties whilst people died, so there’s that….”

    11. Human-Egg2793 on

      The council in question has also stated that it only prosecutes if the landlord ignores a letter requesting the licence be paid. So they’re not even fussed about it. 

      Whereas badenoch openly admits to knowingly committing crimes…

    12. dwaynewaynerooney on

      “Baroness Harman told Sky News’ Electoral Dysfunction podcast last year Ms Badenoch had posted on her website as if she was the Labour peer, saying she was thinking of joining the Conservative Party.

      Ms Badenoch “owned up to it and actually bragged about it”, Baroness Harman said, as she admitted her password at the time was “Harriet Harman”.

      She said she decided not to press charges.”

      It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

    13. ByteSizedGenius on

      Interesting tactic to try frame being in your 20s as being akin to being a young teenager.

    14. DaysyFields on

      No it’s not the same, it’s a real crime, other than the Chancellor’s agent’s oversight.

    15. andytimms67 on

      Can Reeves refer herself to the government’s independent ethics watchdog and ask for a new set of batteries for her calculator so we don’t get screwed over so badly

    16. Oh_Shiiiiii on

      Regardless of the lawfulness at 28 somebody that had aspirations to become a party leader of either side should have got past being this stupid student level politics it would be understandable at the age of 18 but by 28 I was well into my career and knew full well acting like a child (which is what this amounts to) isn’t something you can do.

      I don’t support the conservatives and never have but she needs to go

    18. Better_Ad898 on

      failing to file some paperwork properly (not entirely her fault) is not even remotely comparable to admitting to hacking a website and impersonating someone (which is, ya know, a crime) also why hasnt she been arrested for this?

    20. francisdavey on

      She is right, they are not the same, the offence she admitted is serious and attracts up to two years in prison. Whereas Rachel Reeves would only be guilty if she could not show “reasonable excuse” and then it would attract a fine.