And if not, tough. He should have thought about that when he was
tera gold frittering away a small fortune on luxuries. He must have known he’d need money for a lawyer somewhere down the line.But when push came to shove, he was too skint to hire a proper brief. So the judge decided that we should pay his legal fees anyway.Goodness knows how much that is going to cost.
At least five grand, as a basis for negotiation, I shouldn’t wonder. Still, when it’s public money, it’s nobody’s money, so what the hell . . .Legal aid is one of the biggest rackets out there, which is why the Government has been trying to hack it back. It has been costing us £2 billion a year, more than any other country in Europe.
It was introduced to give the poor access to justice, to provide them with a defence in mostly criminal actions. Legal aid was never designed to supply barristers to businessmen with millionaire lifestyles who find themselves on the rough end of a nasty divorce.Similarly, the welfare system was supposed to be a safety net, not an endless source of money for
cheap tera gold women like Marie Buchan who breed like rabbits.
Nor was it set up to allow fathers to impregnate women and then leave them holding the baby. Boy George was banging on in his Budget about the need to reduce public spending still further and balance the books. Good luck with thatBut we live in a world where the people in charge of our public services continue to lavish money on the undeserving with cavalier abandon. We’ve ended up with a system which bankrolls a selfish mother-of-eight and forces an expensive barrister on a businessman who didn’t ask for one.Now you understand what these two stories have in common.
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