Sheeze

Oh honestly, couldn't you predict this?

He was a former psychiatric nurse and union organiser, was chairman of the Scottish Labour Party in the Nineties and succeeded leftwing Robin Cook as MP for Livingston. Yesterday he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for "fiddling his parliamentary expenses." The former Labour MP Jim Devine is the fourth parliamentarian to face jail over the expenses scandal.

Others include Eric Illsley, former Labour MP for Barnsley Central, was sent to prison for a year for dishonestly obtaining £14,500 in second home claims. Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick, 58, awaits sentencing after being found guilty of falsely claiming more than £11,000 Former Bury North Labour MP David Chaytor was jailed for 18 months for falsely claiming nearly £22,000.

The Scotsman calls him a "working class hero." They could have called him arrogant and unlawful, deceitful and morally flawed, a drunk and a womanizer. And a petty thief.