LEWIS SCHMEWIS

LEWIS SCHMEWIS

Did I read correctly last week?

Community fuming over Ray Lewis?

Not me.

Though innocent before proven guilty, it seems an open and shut case

The man's been ousted for taking money from unsuspecting elderly and disabled people, sexual improprieties with parishioners and attacking children. All of which are as good as unforgivable in my book.

Let’s not compromise our integrity in our desperate need for respected leadership figures

And let's not demean the race card. His resignation falls in line with the likes of Derek Conway, dropped in January for creaming the coffers and paying his family.

Richard Dalla Riva, lib dem front bench mp , ousted over sexual harassment claims from a teenager via a tabloid paper; Neil Hamilton for bribery. The list goes on and tellingly on

There's much present furore over mp’s and mep's use of public funds for undeclared personal use and many have been brought down and all are white

Jeffrey archer was jailed for perjury

Jonathan Aitkin spun a web of deceit over a £1000 bill and earned himself an 18 month sentence. He served seven.

Even President Nixon’s empire caved in overnight

Its part and parcel of the cynical cutthroat game they're in. Everybody knows that much less them.

Though Lewis’s colour will probably make the road back much more pressurised than others, he's in bed with powerful peer ship and they do look after their own. The conservatives put up a heady fight last month in their support of Caroline Spellman, whose nanny received a good wage from the taxpayer

Peter Mandelson was dropped twice over property and passport fraud and re-posted elsewhere. One of those times by Tony Blair

It’s been said time and again that the demeanours undertaken by these guys earn them much less severity than a single mother on benefits who pulls insignificant strokes by comparison

Our royalty has been the subject of marital infidelities, insensitive excesses, homosexual shenanigans with staff and conspiracy to murder a princess. They have emerged consistently unscathed