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Author:  paulzolo [ Wed May 04, 2016 8:10 am ]
Post subject:  BBC struggle to keep Tory Election Fraud under wraps
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With over 30,000 tweets today, the hashtag #ToryElectionFraud has been trending on Twitter at number 3, and is currently (at the time of writing) the sixth most tweeted about issue.

However, with such a big political news story currently unfurling, you would have expected the media to be all over it like a rash – just as they were with the Ken Livingstone anti-Semitism saga last week.

http://evolvepolitics.com/twitter-erupt ... elections/
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed May 04, 2016 8:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: BBC struggle to keep Tory Election Fraud under wraps
it does make you wonder what deals are being done in back rooms by the cons and BBC ...
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Thu May 05, 2016 8:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: BBC struggle to keep Tory Election Fraud under wraps
.......or that its just twitter conspiracy and not really a story - having had a quick look at the Channel 4 web site it seems to revolve around some hotel bills and whether they should count toward the campaign spending limit or not
Author:  jonbwfc [ Thu May 05, 2016 2:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BBC struggle to keep Tory Election Fraud under wraps
hifidelity2 wrote:
.......or that its just twitter conspiracy and not really a story - having had a quick look at the Channel 4 web site it seems to revolve around some hotel bills and whether they should count toward the campaign spending limit or not

It's kind of more a pattern of that - Tory activists/campaigners being shipped around constituencies and the hotel bills for putting them up not being declared in amny of the constituencies they were working in, but against a central Conservative party account. So it looks much more like wilfully breaking/evading the rules on election spending than an administrative oversight because they did it several times i.e. it looks rather like overt electoral fraud.

It's technical rule breaking - they weren't stuffing ballot boxes or anything - but breaking the rules is breaking the rules, which it rather looks they did intentionally.

This has serious consequences as, theoretically, the conservative candidate in each constituency they worked in could be removed from their office and by-elections called in all the constituencies in question. When the government has a majority of 12, that can soon matter - bear in mind if a conservative member gets ousted by a labour candidate in a by-election, that actually depletes the majority by two, so you only need it to happen a few times and the government is in serious hot water. And they won't have bothered shipping in campaigners to safe seats an yway, so all of these must be fairly marginal..
Author:  pcernie [ Sat May 07, 2016 3:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BBC struggle to keep Tory Election Fraud under wraps
Tory funding in 2015 election campaign investigated by eight police forces | Politics | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... n-campaign
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