Is 10 weeks in prison all you get if you’re a Labour MP who batters one of your constituents in a drunken late-night attack?
Mike Amesbury, who is no longer the Labour MP but was at the time, even admitted to being the MP during the assault.
So 10 weeks in prison, £200 compensation to the victim, £85 quid court costs and a £154 surcharge.
In reality, he’ll probably be back out prowling the streets of Runcorn within five weeks.
Patrick Christys lashed out at the sentencing
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But let’s have a look at the judge.
It’s Tan Ikram. Mr Ikram sent a police officer to prison for 20 weeks for making a racist joke in a WhatsApp group, and then appeared to brag about it, saying: ‘‘This was a police officer bringing the police service into disrepute. So I gave him a long prison sentence. The police were horrified by that.’
PICTURED: Mike Amesbury arrives at Chester Magistrates’ CourtPA
It’s the same judge that let the two women who attended a pro-Palestine protest with pictures of the Hamas paragliders walk free. He said emotions were very high and their lesson had been “well learned”.
Compare this to Lucy Connolly.
She is the wife of a Tory councillor who was jailed for 31 months for a social media post, which she actually deleted, calling for mass deportations and saying migrant hotels should be set on fire.
Now obviously the bit about migrant hotels is awful and she should not have said it – but she deleted the post, pleaded guilty and still got 31 months.
What’s worse? Battering a constituent or a social media post? I put it to you that what then Labour MP Mike Amesbury did was much worse.
Mike Amesbury has STILL not resigned as the local MP. It’s ridiculous.
At the General Election, the Runcorn Rocky, Iron Mike Amesbury came first with 52.9 per cent of the vote. The man who came second is Reform UK’s Jason Moorcroft, with 18.1 per cent of the vote.
Since then we’ve seen the Labour Party embroiled in Lord Alli’s donor scandal, cabinet ministers accused of lying on the CV, everyone’s energy bills are going up again, Starmer’s reaction to the Southport massacre, more migrant hotels, the economy’s in a mess, I could go on!
If there’s a by-election…could Reform win?