[Livia]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Perhaps the greatest irony about prisoners voting rights is currently there is a case from Austria having just gone through Europe called the Frodl case.

This actually allows a voting ban to be placed on those guilty of electoral fraud or abuse of public position, so any MP who gets sentenced to prison for lets say false expenses could automatically lose their rights to vote while convicted rapists and murderers are allowed to vote.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...an-ruling.html

Haha... now THAT is interesting and strangely amusing.

This isn't relevant to the main thread but to that story... Fiddling election expenses would result in a case of electoral fraud. Obviously the recent cases of MPs overclaiming and falsely claiming does not constitute "electoral" fraud. Electoral fraud would result in the MP and their agent being jailed because it's the agent who returns details of expenses to the Electoral Commission and signs their name to them. And that's me. And that's why my MPs expenses are always right! As a side note, and speaking personally, I think that MPs of all parties should be regularly placed in the pillories on College Green and pelted with rotten fruit by the elecorate... help them remember that they are public servants. But I didn't say that, obviously.