Tory battlebus- election fraud or national campaigning?

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alfie2244 said:

Step aside and suggest everyone to vote UKIP

Nigel would be sick.

[gooner1]

Cold said:

Mackinlay's press statement:

Last paragraph reminds me of H.Clinton

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Truckosaurus said:

I wonder what the most preferable outcome for the Tories is here, lose the Thannet seat to UKIP but then no-one cares about the court case as the chap is no longer an MP, or he re-takes the seat and then there are "Tory Election Fraud" headlines in July.

If they lose Thanet south next week it will most likely be to Labour, not UKIP. It's still a big 'if' though even after today's news.

[saaby93]

BlackLabel said:

CPS statement on election expenses

CPS said:

Nick Vamos, CPS Head of Special Crime,

How many other cases are currently in progress in the special crime department

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2 years ago.

Conservative	Craig Mackinlay	18,838	38.1	−9.9
UKIPs	Nigel Farage	16,026	32.4	+26.9
Labour	Will Scobie	11,740	23.8	−7.6

[alfie2244]

UKIP's candidate, Reverend Stuart Piper, looks to be an "interesting" character.

[esxste]

Think it just goes to show there probabaly was lots of dodgy goings on with the other cases, but this was the only one that they could find enough evidence to be confident of making it stick.

[deadslow]

Wow, how scared of Farage was Cameron. Fiddled the election expenses, possibly sending the local people to jail (not himself, 'natch), and took the whole country out of the EU, just to keep Nige out of Westminster

[alfie2244]

deadslow said:

Wow, how scared of Farage was Cameron. Fiddled the election expenses, possibly sending the local people to jail (not himself, 'natch), and took the whole country out of the EU, just to keep Nige out of Westminster

[Hayek]

alfie2244 said:

deadslow said:

Wow, how scared of Farage was Cameron. Fiddled the election expenses, possibly sending the local people to jail (not himself, 'natch), and took the whole country out of the EU, just to keep Nige out of Westminster

[Truckosaurus]

There is an element of truth to the paranoid claim above. The Tories really didn't want Farrage (rhymes with garage) to win in Thannet, so would have put a lot more of this semi-dubious 'off the books' campaigning into that seat. So it is not surprising this is the seat that is being used as the single case being sent to court.

[Roofless Toothless]

Thanet - rhymes with gannet.

[deadslow]

Truckosaurus said:

There is an element of truth to the paranoid claim above. The Tories really didn't want Farrage (rhymes with garage) to win in Thannet, so would have put a lot more of this semi-dubious 'off the books' campaigning into that seat. So it is not surprising this is the seat that is being used as the single case being sent to court.

Letting Farrage into Westminster was, for the Tories, like letting one of the Aliens into the ship. They knew they would all be destroyed. So they broke the law and cheated to win. FACT.

[XCP]

gooner1 said:

Last paragraph reminds me of H.Clinton

If they had delayed charging until after the election, CPS would have been accused of bias. Lose/lose situation for them.

[Halb]

Crook rhymes with (oh) fk.

[anonymous-user]

Will be interesting to see how the electorate responds to having a 'charged with a crime' candidate on the ballot

If the charges had been brought one second before nominations closed, he would have been straight under the bus and a replacement drafted in

[BlackLabel]

The recent result in South Thanet below. The Tories increased their majority by around 3500 votes.



If the Tory MP gets convicted of any of these offences then we'll have a very interesting, and given the Tory/DUP majority a very important, by-election.

[Du1point8]

If this is election fraud, what is Labour money laundering going to be brought up?

Taxpayers give money to unions, unions donate money to Labour.

How much more blatant, is it?

[rscott]

Be interesting to see if the DUP end up in hot water over their £282000 spending on adverts in a newspaper which isn't even available in Northern Ireland..

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/24/e...

[Du1point8]

rscott said:

Be interesting to see if the DUP end up in hot water over their £282000 spending on adverts in a newspaper which isn't even available in Northern Ireland..

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/24/e...

I would rather have Tory/DUP than Labour/LibDem/SNP/Green fking loonies altogether.

I bet all DUP want out of this is movement across the border and sod all else.