Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post

Just a personal view on this but, if there was a way he could be banned from ever standing for public office again, I'd back it to the hilt.
Totally agree...unfortunately you only have to look at Milan yesterday to see how these things can be all too easily forgotten. Berlusconi was banned, in the way you suggest, and yet yesterday he received a State Funeral...albeit with no foreign dignitaries in attendance.