A few weeks ago a Labour Shadow Minister, Phil Woolas, was stripped of his seat in the first meeting of an election court for 100 years. This was because he had lied in his election literature about his opponent.

Last week another ex-Labour MP was gaoled for corruption. And today we learn that Eric Illsely, still an MP but not deprived of the whip, has pleaded guilty to false accounting charges (see link below).

Labour has tried to run around pretending to be politically purer than the Coalition Government. It has tried to say that it is the champion of fairness while the Government manages a wrecked economy.

But the truth is painful:
– it is Labour MPs (with or without the whip) who are gaoled or face gaol sentences for corrupt practices
– it is Labour which destroyed the economy, howeer much they may say they faced a global crisis (based of course in the City of London which labour deregulated).

We must, every time we cast a vote or despair over a policy, remember who got us here and what sort of men and women they were and are.