Baroness Scotland makes my blood boil

I had a lot of sympathy for Baroness Scotland until, that is, I saw her on last night’s news blithely defending herself. What infuriated me most was the way she flippantly dismissed her transgression, comparing it to forgetting to pay the Congestion Charge, a ‘technical breach of the law’, a civil offence not a criminal one. The whole explanation smacked of arrogance. The Baroness would do better to accept her £5000 fine with a degree of humility than try to justify her law breaking. In fact, it’s her haughty attempts to explain away her misdemenour that turn a minor administrative error in to a potentially sackable/resignable offence. It’s not her position she should reconsider. It's her attitude.