XPost: uk.politics.parliament, uk.politics.misc   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1127664275.04ff358100a8ac0d005c908c0dd43194@teranews>, AlanG   
    writes   
      
   >On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:48:33 +0100, Robert Henderson   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>In message <6T+mMpAVKoNDFwZ$@borve.demon.co.uk>, banana   
   >> writes   
   >>>US president George W Bush was the first convicted criminal to be   
   >>>elected to that office.   
   >>>   
   >>>When was the last time a convicted criminal was appointed to the UK   
   >>>cabinet?   
   >>>   
   >>>(I don't mean any of the many crimes that such types commit and get away   
   >>>with - I mean an official criminal conviction in a court, already on   
   >>>their record at the time they were appointed).   
   >>>   
   >>Mmm...Charles Linton....1983....Bow Street.... RH   
   >   
   >No proof he's the same man.   
   >However Peter Hain has a conviction for criminal conspiracy and ISTR   
   >he stood trial for robbery but was acquitted   
      
   Any idea when the last person was appointed to the cabinet who, at the   
   time of their appointment, had a criminal conviction on a *publicly*   
   brought charge?   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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