After spending years of my life campaign for - among other things – justice to be done on MPs’ expenses, it’s brilliant to see the first culprits appearing in court. After the brilliant news of David Chaytor’s prison sentence, this morning we had Eric Illsley pleading guilty to three counts.

Illsley is still a sitting MP, which is a huge stain on our democracy. The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics have launched a petition demanding his immediate resignation from Parliament. I’ve signed it, and I would urge you to do so too – it’s online here.

Tags: Eric Illsley, Guido Fawkes, MPs expenses, opinion, Parliament, Petition, Politics, TaxPayers' Alliance

Categories: Opinion, Politics

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   Ed Butt:

   If Illseley goes down as looks certain, surely he gets booted out of the commons. Isn’t it stretching things a bit to ask this guy to take the honourable course

   11.01.2011 18:45 Reply