Barnsley Central By-election

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(Source: BBC News)

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The BBCNews Channel is already calling him the INDEPENDENT MP for Barnsley Central, which means it will be probably this afternoon that he formally resigns as the MP.

He was technically an Independent; he'd been suspended from the PLP.

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Given that he has not yet received a sentence which mandates he be vacated; and that he hasn't resigned yet, I think the naming of this thread is quite presumptive.

Not that presumptive. He's probably getting a prison sentence.

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Given that he has not yet received a sentence which mandates he be vacated; and that he hasn't resigned yet, I think the naming of this thread is quite presumptive.

Not that presumptive. He's probably getting a prison sentence.

Though it would need to be a sentence greater than 12 months for him to be removed automatically.

That may even be probable (given that it seems that the sentencing judge is the same as in the Chaytor case) but it's definitely still presumptive.

I agree. It's jumping the gun a little.

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Not now though.

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So that's a spoof on LD campaign lit?

Yep; I've seen a few of those "charts" on LD leaflets in my time.

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So that's a spoof on LD campaign lit?

Yep; I've seen a few of those "charts" on LD leaflets in my time.

And you live in their weakest area in the entire country!

Actually, not locally; while campaigning elsewhere in the UK.