This would be instant dismissal for the rest of us

[stackpole]

This would be instant dismissal for the rest of us.

Labour MP Elliot Morley has admitted claiming £16,000 on expenses for a mortgage that did not exist

He was a useless DEFRA minister as well. I remember him overseeing the decline of the UK fishing and agriculture industries. He did nothing for them as their fisheries and markets were surrendered to other EU members.

[Sockpuppet]

I really don't think anyone can expect to believe that his fraud was a "mistake".

if it was a mistake then really he doesn't deserve to be running **** all with accounting skills like that.

[BoredBloke]

This was all over the news this morning and they were saying that Brown should remove the whip from this guy and effectively make him an independant. Why not sack him? If anybody in any role was caught fiddling their expenses like this they would be facing serious criminal charges.

[The Lone Gunman]

I would have thought a knock from the fraud squad would have been appropriate.

Is nobody questioning the comptancy of these individuals to run the country? They can't even manage to do their expenses according to a simple set of rules FFS.

[BrowneIssue]

Why not sack him?

MPs are not employees. They can be chucked out of the party, kicked off the cabinet, but the PM cannot stop them being MPs.


And that £800 per month or 18 months wasn't a mistake. He was trying it on.

[Doggy Styles]

HMRC should do him for tax evasion
The Serious Fraud Office should charge him with fraud
The Labour Party should kick him out

But I'll bet none of these happen. He'll probably end up as the new speaker, or in the House of Lords.

The OP is right, Morley was also a worse than useless minister.

[BrilloPad]

Why is he not being prosecuted?

[Mich the Tester]

Why is he not being prosecuted?

Jacqboots only allows opposition MPs to be prosecuted.

[Doggy Styles]

Why is he not being prosecuted?

He'd only be prosecuted for telling the Telegraph.

HTH - Gorbals Mick

[thelace]

At my previous gig, a technical manager was sacked for fiddling £250 on his expenses...

The police will only investigate if there is a "complaint".

Is there any etiquet over who can make these complaints? Does it have to be Parliament or can anyone do it?

I for one would love to, in fact all of us that have an MP who has been named and shamed should consider it our democratic duty to put in a complaint to the police.

"Come the revolution...." Well that revolution may be already here?