Phil Woolas ejected from parliament over election slurs

The former immigration minister Phil Woolas has lied about his Liberal Democrat opponent during the general election, that is the judgment from two high court judges. Elwyn Watkins said that Woolas misled the voters and that he claimed that Watkins had “wooed” Islamic extremists. The election court saw confidential emails between Woolas’s team and they decided that Woolas automatically loses his seat in the Commons and is barred for three years. The court ruled that Woulas's claim in newspapers was misleading and he was also ordered to pay all costs. His party did not support him with his legal actions trying to win the elctions by telling lies and they suspended him from the party.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/05/phil-woolas-ejected-parliament-election

My reaction:
It is a difficult subject because I do not follow the elections in Engeland, so I am not aware of what is happening right now but when I read this article I thought that suspending Phil Woolas was the right thing to do because it is not a proper way to win elections by telling lies. I think that a party needs to fight clean fights so the voters are not misled and the party will be known as truthful. When this would happen in the Netherlands I think that this person would also get suspended from the party.