There is a mixture of surprise and satisfaction at today’s news that the 55-year-old former Labour MP, who has been sitting as an independent since he was suspended following his arrest in October last year, has been jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty earlier this year to assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows.
Kaye Warren, walking her two greyhounds through Frodsham town centre, makes no secret of her feelings towards Mike Amesbury, her MP who will spend tonight behind bars.
Reacting to the ten week prison sentence, pensioner Reg Jones, 74, said: “I think it's pretty grim but he should have been getting longer.
But Donna Jackson, 60, a retired NHS worker said that a frustrated electorate just wants their “pound of flesh” from politicians.
“I think at the moment we're very infantilised and people are very disillusioned, and I think that they want their pound of flesh from politicians.
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