As another ex Labour MP, Eric Illsley awaits a spell at Her Majesty's Pleasure, he has finally resigned his Commons seat, triggering a by-election which will take place on March 3rd. He's had almost an extra month's wages - he could have resigned when he pleaded guilty on 11th January, but failed to do so. After he's already pocketed £14000 he wasn't entitled to, it is a major impertinence that he's taken an extra £3000 in salary.
How on earth Labour allowed him to stand in the General Election is beyond me. It's a bit rubbish of the Party, who made a thing of going through their MPs' claims, not to have sussed out what was going on.
The by-election is just 3 weeks away. The Liberal Democrats are having an action day this Saturday, from 10.30 am onwards, at Darton Parish Rooms, Church Street, Darton, Barnsley, S75 5HQ.
3 comments:
the Labour shoe in will likely win!
@Caron
Are you going to allow my comment regarding Illsley and David Laws, censorship is hardly a liberal principle.
Anonymous, I haven't received such a comment. I've checked in the spam as well as my e-mail and the Blogger dashboard.
I don't see how you could possibly link the two, but I would have liked to argue the point with you. Please can you resubmit.
I very rarely reject comments and would only do so if they were unacceptably abusive or defamatory. Many bloggers don't accept anonymous comments at all, so I can hardly be accused of censorship.
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