(ex) MP - Fair result?

[Doggy Styles]

I heard that a sentence of 1 year or more bars you from being an MP. So it was just enough to bugger an attempted political comeback.

Unless Labour get back in and enoble him.

[moorfield]

Anyone who looks like Bella Emberg deserves some leniency.

The inmates have been fantasing about Bella Emberg in the showers for years.

I don't think it's leniency he'll be getting.

[SueEllen]

If you plead guilty to an offence your sentence is lighter.

Plus the judge has to take into account the MP's former "good character".

[centurian]

Given the amount of jail time for other fraud based offences, it seems about right.

Chaytor got longer, but the judge explained the lower sentance because he simply made the false claims, whereas Chaytor made up the evidence to go with it.

[RichardCranium]

One MP at the start of all that scandal had all his expenses paperwork, including receipts, shredded before they could be published. Some chap by the name of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. He got away with that, so I don't think it is fair.

What would HMRC's view be of us using that as an excuse? "Oh, I didn't know I needed to keep paperwork, silly me. Woopsie."

[shaunbhoy]

Plenty of time to pick up the soap on a regular basis. Serves the thieving ****er right.

So long as he doesn't "flip" his prison cell for his constituency home!!!

[hyperD]

Only 1 year?

Plenty of time to pick up the soap on a regular basis. Serves the thieving ****er right.

[AtW]

Reasonably good result.

[thunderlizard]

I think so. Anyone who looks like Bella Emberg deserves some leniency.

[TykeMerc]

Expenses scandal fallout BBC News - MPs' expenses: Eric Illsley sentenced to year in jail

Only 1 year?