Durham Giant wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-19181071

Amazing that someone who has lerd an exemplary life for 46 years is barred from a job for a trivial offence as a 13 year old.

If someone like him is going to be discriminated against how difficult is it for anybody to else to show they have been rehabilitated.

Dally wrote:Arguaby, it shows a very serious character flaw for someone aspiring to serious, high office: the apparent inability to stand up for his own principles and go along with something he says he did not believe in.

Big Graeme wrote:He was 13 FFS, he had an airgun not a feckin' sub-machine gun.

Dally wrote:Arguaby, it shows a very serious character flaw for someone aspiring to serious, high office: the apparent inability to stand up for his own principles and go along with something he says he did not believe in.

Horatio Yed wrote:That's a bit pathetic, but if he was a Tory MP I'm sure the tone from the majority on here would be different.

Horatio Yed wrote:That's a bit pathetic, but if he was a Tory MP I'm sure the tone from the majority on here would be different.

Him wrote:Except Tory MP's don't get caught with an air gun when they're 13 and have to face the punishment. They get to trash restaurants when they're at university and not get punished in any shape or form.