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

https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13460659

by do_or_pie

23 comments

  1. If the right didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards.

  2. 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. > 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. 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.

  5. Don’t think bringing up a crime they did is the win she thinks it is

  6. Why hasn’t she been arrested for hacking? It’s a criminal offence.

  7. Repugnant woman with no respect for the rule of law.

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

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

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

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

  15. 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. 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. 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?

  19. Badenoch violated the Computer Misuse Act. That is a criminal offence, no ifs or buts.

  20. 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.

  21. Badenoch should have gone to prison for this. its an extremely serious offense.

  22. It’s literally worse Kemi. You actively chose to break the law in order to sabotage a political opponent. Reeves inadvertently didn’t fill in a form.

  23. Once again, Badenoch proves she’s a clueless idiot.

    A civil matter that the council in question are happy to resolve if landlords respond appropriately to an initial prompt or that they need a license — and which Reeves and her husband genuinely thought was being handled by the agency.

    Versus…

    Admitting to a criminal act, knowingly undertaken, with the potential for a custodial sentence.

    My God, she’s stupid.

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