In July this year I wrote to Labour MP Denis Macshane, responding to his suggestion that we should have 10% working class MP's. I emailed his constituency office asking how it would work and I sent him a link to this blog.
He ignored both.
Yesterday he resigned from his post as Member of Parliament for Rotherham, after being found to have submitted 19 false invoices, which the enquiry said were intended to deceive.
In total Mr MacShane wrongly claimed £7500, which he has since paid back.
Before becoming an MP, Mr Macshane was a journalist, working for the BBC. He was sacked by the BBC after pretending to be a caller on a radio show he worked on.  He went on to be an activist for the Journalists union.
His career in politics saw him represent Rotherham for almost twenty years during which time he was Labours Europe Minister for three years.
When announcing his resignation yesterday he said he was shocked at the findings of the enquiry and realised his political career was finished.
At a time when the public are crying out for honesty and transparency desperate for integrity, this does nothing to help the party or politics.
Denis Macshane is the not the first MP to have his career finished after submitting fraudulent expenses. In 2009 Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingstone, was jailed for false accounting after claiming expenses dishonestly. Before being elected to parliament Devine was a full time union official.

In 2010 Labour MP David Chaytor was jailed for false accounting.

In 2011 Elliot Morley was jailed for claiming £30,000 in expenses for a mortgage he had already repaid. He entered politics after being head of special needs at a high school in Hull.

So what it is that makes men who so clearly care about the welfare of their fellow man,  become so morally incontinent when they enter politics and have the opportunity to make a difference. They are so determined to stand up for what they believe in that they dedicate most of their lives to fighting injustice, seeking fairness, often at great personal expense in their private lives in their quest to gain the power needed to make that difference, only to abuse that power once they get it.
Lord Acton said in 1887 that Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Over a century later this is still true.
At a time when almost every great British institution is in disrepute with the possible exception to the legal system, is it not time that we - the voters, demanded more integrity from our leaders and influencers.
( This point also highlights why it is  so vital that our courts retain their authority, independent of Europe).
Latest figures show that crime is falling in this country, yet middle class indecency appears to be rampant.
The media has never been so under fire, after the appalling revelations about the Murdoch empire and the disgusting wide spread practise of phone hacking. More recently, even the BBC are being accused of been less than honest with the public, following the Savile abuse.
The way the press operates is under investigation by the Leveson enquiry, lead by a bunch of parliamentarians. The bitter fight between the middle class journalists and the middle class political elite has left us, the working class public with absolutely no one to trust.

I wonder if now Mr MacShane may have the time to reply to my email and show us how we can get more people from the moral classes into politics.