#speeding conviction

[angelholme]

Jailed MP loses appeal against conviction

Judges say Fiona Onasanya has "damaged, probably irreparably, a promising political career".

I really don’t see how she continues as an MP.

She is sitting as an independent - Labour expelled her in December after she had been convicted - but can she really spend three years in The Commons as a convicted criminal?

I understand the reason that MPs are not automatically recalled for sentences under a year (okay - I kind of understand it) but this is it. She has been refused leave to appeal, and that’s it - she’s a convicted criminal and it’s not going to change. 

So surely there must be a way of automatically deselecting her? It just seems so weird that MPs cannot be removed for things like this.

[newsdock]

A soldier with an exemplary Army record who was refused British citizenship because of a speeding conviction has won a legal battle to have his case reconsidered. Source: Press Association