to think Vicky Pryce is fantastic?

[amosquitomylibido]

Just been listening to an interview with her on the World at One. She's had a brilliant career and five children, and dealt with the very public break-up of her marriage, and I think she comes across as reasonable, clever and likeable. AIBU?

On the other hand... she did either take points for her husband and then tell on him as revenge, or she made it up entirely for revenge. Not that attractive either way. And I don't think her marriage breakup would have been quite as public without that story to give it legs.

Hmm. Ok, I guess it is sort of hard to find a positive angle on that, so perhaps IABU. But at least she was never in the effing Bullingdon club. I think she'd make a great chancellor.

Going into politics - Red Flag :)

She's brilliant! I'd admire her hugely, first class brain. I think she was awfully heartbroken at the break up of her marriage, and has stated she regrets the points debacle.

Yanbu.

assuming you aren't a troll, if she and her friend had had their way, another (innocent) woman would be going to jail now. do you honestly think she would have cared? how likeable is that?

Ummmm...

I think it is entirely possible to be a brilliant career woman and loving mum without

a) peverting the course of justice
b) attempting to implicate an entirely innocent person in order to avoid prosecution yourself
c) In an attempt to get off, telling the whole world that the father of your son wanted to abort him.

For these reasons, I'd say not fantastic.

Yes, unreasonable.

The fact that she is apparently intelligent and succesfull makes it even sadder that she stooped to blabbing to the press about something she illigally did (of her own free will) years ago then brings it up to get a petty revenge when he buggers off with someone else!

Shes a tool & deserved all she got.

Oh yes, she's so fantastic that she tried to implicate an innocent woman in her crime and dragged her children through hell just to get back at her husband.

The pair of them are particularly nasty, vile people and deserve their time in jail.

the judges pre sentence comments about Vicky were OTT and awful

She and her ex both got exactly what they deserved.
Now perhaps we can all forget about them.

Lots of reasonably sane & sensible people (Evan Davis, Jasmine Alibi Brown) count her as a friend, so she must come across as very charming & put together in person.

So will probably pull herself out of this mess fairly well, all things considered.

Still can't find it in myself to respect her, though.

If Evan Davis and Jasmine Alibi Brown like her that's reason enough for me not to.

I was waiting for that, lol.

Helloo - the OP is from Nov 2011!

Zombie thread..

She is a stupid and dangerous woman, obsessed. She got what she deserves.

I think she behaved perfectly reasonable up until the breakdown of her marriage.

At that point she appears to have removed her brilliant brain and behaved totally irrationally, whilst some of that can be forgiven based on the circumstances of her marriage breakdown, most of it can't.

I don't think taking the points was her first mistake, it was seeking revenge where she feel down.

I know it is a zombie thread but I feel like putting in my 2 p. I was originally quite sympathetic, and felt she had been hurt and so was clearly acting irrationally. But, then when i read about her trying to drop a totally innocent person in it (what was she, an aide to CH?) I found that utterly indefensible. Then to try and persuade the journalist to lie and say the leak came from CH's new girlfriend- both those things betray such a lack of morals, a kind of belief that whatever suits her is fine, and everyone else be damned. She lost any sort of moral highground there.

But... after all those years of marriage and the ONLY thing she could have a go at him for was the points. I'm no fan of CH or anyone else in that little saga, but that seemed to me to mean that CH was (except for that significant issue) pretty clean.

But they all come out looking pretty tawdry.

Apparently there is some other secret (if you read what she said in court but didn't expand upon) about Chris Huhne that would have damaged him far more severly if she'd revealed it.

Anyway, I think she has a bit of magnificence about her. She has gone out with a bang, not a whimper. It seems instilled in British women now that they must never go beyond being a good little quiet wife, seen but not heard (too loud). The judge's comments are so disapproving about her being vengeful.

Clearly she was under severe emotional stress, but what a way to go out!

She needs to learn that no is a complete sentence.

So it's fantastic to let one of your children (and the rest of the world) know that aborting him was discussed... just to add to your revenge plan,and show how unpleasant and dominating your husband is. Most of us would take that secret to the grave rather than hurt our child like that. Think this must be a troll....

Chris Huhne was clean? Does having an affair for years not count?

Re-read what I wrote, GreatUncle.

YABU. What a horrible way to behave. What's that? She says now she 'regrets the points debacle'? Well a shame she didn't think about that before making sure it was brought to our attention on the national news every day for far too long. Wouldn't it be great if she quietly slipped into obscurity as an accountant or tax solicitor or something like that and she is never in the press again?