So, why isn't he in prison?

[NickFitz]

He isn't in prison because the police carried out an investigation and decided, on the basis of advice from the Crown Prosecution Service, to take no further action: BBC News - No further action from police over Denis MacShane expenses.

[Doggy Styles]

That's a lovely word, scrounge. Say it slowly.

It's almost onomatopoeic.

[The Spartan]

I suppose it fits in with what they stand for really, you enjoy your life at the expense of other much like the scroungers.

[Doggy Styles]

What the party for the average common working person, surely not?

Yet the headlines were made by a toff's duck island.

Funny old world innit.

[The Spartan]

What the party for the average common working person, surely not?

[minestrone]

Can't be arsed to google but which party came out the least honest in the expenses scandal?

I think labour were by far the worst.

[Doggy Styles]

Over-claiming expenses is one thing, but fake invoices cross the line for me. Isn't this simple fraud?

[Troll]

Can't be arsed to google but which party came out the least honest in the expenses scandal?

[SimonMac]

Parliamentary privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The ancient and undoubted rights and privileges of the Commons are claimed by the Speaker at the beginning of each new Parliament. The privileges are only codified in Erskine May's Parliamentary Practice and the House itself is the only judge of its own privileges. Most of those specifically claimed are practically obsolete, but others remain very real:

• Freedom of speech; (members speaking in the House are not liable for defamation)
• Freedom from arrest in civil matters (practically obsolete);
• Access of the Commons to the Crown (via the Speaker); and
• That the most favourable construction should be placed upon the deliberations of the Commons.

Privileges not specifically mentioned:

• Right of the House to regulate its own composition; (although election petitions are now determined by the ordinary Courts)
• Right of the House to regulate its own internal proceedings, both as to matters and procedures;
• Right to punish members and “strangers” for breach of privilege and contempt;
• Right of freedom from interference (although members are no longer immune from all civil actions

[The Spartan]

Fraud is fraud, feed him to the so called poor

[escapeUK]

Because laws dont apply to MPs.

[gricerboy]

Denis MacShane: Ex-Labour minister to be suspended from the Commons for A YEAR after claiming expenses on 19 fake invoices | Mail Online

Former Europe Minister Denis MacShane is to be suspended from the Commons for a year for submitting 19 false invoices to claim parliamentary expenses.