MacShane was of course a total EU-enthusiast. Well, the EU was good for him, until - unlike the EU - he was rumbled.
He has cheated the taxpayer out of £12,900 of expenses. He fiddled the money through regular false claims for European travel, (so handy, this euro-enthusiasm), using fake signatures. The House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges found that his claims were ‘plainly intended to deceive’.
Bit like the EU's claims too!

“The MacShame Affair” and where democracy is under further threat through the constant erosion of the public’s trust in politicians per se

Political democracy and the trust of the people in our political classes are constantly taking a battering. Indeed the people are losing complete confidence in our politicians as they constantly take illegally from the public purse. Years ago when I was young we used to think that things like this could only happen in a banana republic, for we were told that by our politicians, but now the people are seeing that it happens unabated in their own back yard. The Dennis MacShane fraudulent exposé is another fine example here and where he was seen before this unlawful event as whiter than white within the public eye. Therefore if the perceived public opinion is shattered in a man whom they thought could be trusted, their trust again in our political classes is undermined further. For as it seems that that politicians of all political colours can act in deceptive ways if they want too and that they have learnt nothing from the expenses scandal, it is time that a ‘totally’ independent body and I mean a totally independent body outside the ‘Establishment’, was set up to stop all this happening. And in this respect again, parliamentary rules have to be altered so that in clear cases of crime they too should be dragged through the courts like we mere mortals that vote them into power. For the present rules to protect the perpetrators through parliamentary privilege are not protecting the people against crimes committed against them, and where if the same crime was committed by the people they would most probably receive a custodial sentence. It appears to me that there are two systems in force presently and one of them is basically illegal when we do not use common sense. Time for great political change I feel or voters will simply just not turn out to vote and where unless we wish to see the possibility of a return of what happened elsewhere in the 1930s, things have to change for that reason also. Democracy is therefore bit-by-bit under threat and everyone should see that clearly for their own long-term good.

Dr David Hill
Chief Executive
World Innovation Foundation
Huddersfield, United Kingdom – Bern, Switzerland – Arlington, United States of America

And let's hope this means we won't have to see any more of MacShame's trupe in the New Statesman.

Good old Labour, snouts in the trough yet again.
True colours shown once again, no policies, no strategy, no morales.
When the money runs out....they just steal it!

Living in Rotherham I have had the great privilege of hearing Mr MacShane speak on a number of occasions and afterwards sometimes having a follow up conversation with him on the topic of his speech.

Mr Macshane in his speech and subsequent conversations clarified something that had puzzled me for may years concerning what type of person was described by a seemingly well used vernacular word.

That word was "Dick head".

where is the transparency we were promised by this government. we were promised that we would be able to see everything costing more than £500 from any government department or public body. if anyone knows where this website exists, please post it.

So thedirty dog has resigned?-O Frabjous day,calloo callay I chortle in my joy!
Now it's up to Plod to nail him properly.....

Well i think it's positively wrong to cause the expense of another election - without the Law having been broken. In fact I think it may be positively wrong to set any working context up a way that is so easily corruptible.

If it's true the man spent £20, ooo per year on an office attached to his house without breaking the Law- one wonders how, where and why such a cost was cranked up - given the dearth of common knowledge or information publicly available concerning what M.P's do and what they are supposed to do..and why can't the people of Rotherham benefit instead from a dedicated emergency application of appropriate systems technology, one that can serve as an emergency Parliamentary representative. I suppose any surgeries could be attended perhaps by some other M,P.. or even some suitable person acting as a virtual M.P. for the purposes of accountability whilst the man is in his period of suspension, or whatever it is.

I don't see why the Labour party should be talking to the man about the future of his constituency when we have an electoral commission. What about the Parliamentary standards people? Isn't the future of a local constituency a job more generally applicable to more independent concerns?

Shoddy money grubbers... self aggrandizement tossers fiddling dodging
in the pocket of this that and the other corrupt corporation
a honest days work for a days pay you got to be joking
the whole system is based on fiddling and outright corruption
in a word EXPLOITATION