Vicky Price

Oh dear everyone is getting very heated here, lets just think of the long lasting effect on thier children.

It's ironic - or significant? - that Vicky Price is Greek because her story has the makings of a Greek tragedy: a talented woman destroyed by her own overwhelming desire for revenge on an unfaithful husband. Or perhaps Shakespeare could have made something of it.

On the wireless this am, she was being compared to Medea or Clytemnestra!

A friend of mine received a summons for speeding in the post. Luckily for her, she and I were enjoying a very rare lunch at the precise time of the offence (we live in different countries). She phoned the police and demanded the photograph which clearly showed her OH at the wheel. He desperately tried to insist that it was truly her in the driving seat (the rat). She divorced him. She's happy now.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY TO MY FRIENDS AT GRANSNET!!

Did anyone hear the last item on the Today programme this morning? Apparently Vicky Pryce is being compared to Medea of Greek mythology. She (Medea) married Jason of Golden Fleece fame but he deserted her for a younger woman. Awful consequences followed (of course).

Back to Wikipedia.............. (it is so hard to follow it all! So many different Greeks involved!)

btw it wasn't speeding in the post, it was in the car

j08 you keep doing it. Having a dig and then saying things like "no offence", or "i was joking". No offence - I am just pointing out that it is becoming a habit.

Sorry Galen - didn't see your post!

I must admit I have not followed the Vicky Pryce/Chris Huhne story very closely. But the comparisons with the mythology has suddenly made it interesting!

I have written social inquiry (pre-sentence) reports on quite a few women over the years, convicted of a variety of offences such as extracting electricity, benefit and credit card fraud, perverting the course of justice, making hoax/threatening phone calls or texts, neglect and violence to children. After they were sentenced, quite a few have claimed that they took the blame for their partners, who would have received more severe sentences or consequences, if they had faced the court themselves. A cowardly way to treat your partner, and a lost opportunity to address the problem with the offender. The women were not all shrinking violets - I have dealt with professional women, middle class working women, a woman whose female partner coerced her into taking the blame for benefit fraud, as well as poor and deprived women with low self esteem.

Vicky Price is not unusual. I do have a degree of sympathy for her (her ex-husband is a jerk), although I think the alleged coercion was more likely the threat of loss of their prestigious lifestyle, which is tough luck. Justice has been done in the end.

I didn't hear the Today item, but evidently 'great minds.....'

You're not alone in wondering that, jingle. Taking someone apart by referring to their posts on other threads is not what we do - unless we deliberately want to upset GNHQ.

Hmm...while I take your point, Jess, it does seem that bluebell has misinterpreted the other posts she refers to. My comment on Frank's Tree thread was supposed to be a joke! However, it appears she has taken agin me and I can live with that.

did you ever come across any men that were taking the rap for their wives when ?

Nope!!

Jess falls of chair in amazement.

Oh when I am shocked. Those poor women taking punishment in order to save their husbands and partners who obviously wouldn't do the same for them if the shoe was on the other foot.

It's the same with women in prison. Not many partners visiting them, or taking the children to see them, but plenty of women keepng a home going and dragging their children along to far-flung prisons to see their men.

I hadn't thought of that when but how sad to be a mother in prison who's only chance of seeing her children is if some useless lump of man gets off his backside to visit.

Where did this hatred of men come from?!

look it's called misandry

#somethingneweveryday

I don't hate men Jings, just despair of some of 'em!

bloody Ballantyne (of dragons den) tweeting that she is a terrible mother this afternoon. I tweeted him back to tell him that there was wrong on both sides, and it is IWD for goodness sake. Convinced himself he is a saint that one.

I can see why she might have taken the points in the first place, really. He was a very high profile man, and the embarrassment would have extended to her and her family when it hit the press. I would do it for my husband! I can also see why she let the cat out of the bag - cheated on, discarded publicly, humiliated and enraged! The cleverest, sanest person is likely to lose the plot in those circumstances! Of course, she didn't expect the consequences. Feel a bit sorry for her, to be honest.

I think Vicky Pryce is a very sad lady. Her husband is awful. They both broke the law and need to pay the price. But they are guilty of the worst crime. Awful behaviour towards their children.But I still feel sorry for them all.