Expenses scandal fallout BBC News - MPs' expenses: Eric Illsley sentenced to year in jail
Only 1 year?
Only 1 year?
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I think so. Anyone who looks like Bella Emberg deserves some leniency. -
Reasonably good result.Comment
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Plenty of time to pick up the soap on a regular basis. Serves the thieving ****er right.Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostIf you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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So long as he doesn't "flip" his prison cell for his constituency home!!!Originally posted by hyperD View Post“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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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."My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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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.Comment
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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".
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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The inmates have been fantasing about Bella Emberg in the showers for years.Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
I don't think it's leniency he'll be getting.Comment
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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.Comment
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