I’ve no particular fondness for MPs of any party but I couldn’t help but consider the fairness of the treatment of Jim Devine and Eric Illsley, convicted of fiddling their parliamentary expenses, with that of some recent benefit frauds.
Mr Illsley was jailed for 12 months for stealing £14,500 from the public purse, and Mr Devine is reportedly facing 2 years in prison for a similar theft of £8,000.
Lisa Spindler, on the other hand fiddled, (stole by any other name) £22,500 in 3 year benefit fraud and got just six months jail, and that was suspended for 12 months!
Over a 4 year period Carole Bennett claimed £43,226 she was not entitled to, theft again, and did even better, 4 months prison suspended for a year, the same as Debra Morrissey who stole £23,000 over 6 years.
Smells suspiciously like victimisation to me!
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