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2017 GENERAL ELECTION ENDS UP BEING A CONSERVATIVE and MAINSTREAM MEDIA NIGHTMARE.
For the first time in a while I am a little proud to be English and especially proud the young Labour voters! Many of the British people ignored the constant ridiculous attacks that the media were throwing at Jeremy Corbyn on a daily basis and looked at policies and made their decisions based on them policies and not the propaganda they were reading. It’s good that our youth have the ability to ignore and recognize propaganda as blatant as it was. This election, the recent American election and Brexit all expose the same things people have stopped listening to the media, polls are full of shit and propaganda does not always work.
This election had a 2.6% higher turnout then the last general election and a higher turn out always benefits Labour. The election has proved that Labour can be serous opposition to the Conservatives without being like the Conservatives a strategy used by Tony Blair which earned Labour the nickname the red Tories. Labour and Jeremy Corbyn have proved that million pound lobby masters and blatant corporate propaganda is not always enough and sometimes you just can not buy your way in to power. In fact the use of such propaganda, the large donations given to her during her campaign by millionaires and still failing to win a majority undermines Theresa May and the Conservative Party’s leadership as much as the result does.
The BBC and Sky News are telling us this vote is about the Brexit and shows people have concerns and second thoughts as a Jeremy Corbyn voter and a Brexit supporter (though I didn’t vote either way on the EU referendum) their explanation is bullshit.
I believe the reason Theresa May had such of a bad night is deeper than that! For a start I believe it shows peoples awareness of how the media works has grown and after this election it has probably grown even more because the media were consistently disgraceful and blatantly biased. If the Conservatives are going to attack the poor and working classes that would not usually bother to vote the Conservatives are going to push them to vote and it won’t be for them. Theresa May, the Conservatives and the mainstream media resorted to the using the race card, the terror card and some of the most ridiculous creditability destroying headlines that I have ever seen Newspapers print and they have exposed themselves.
Another reason the Conservatives had bad results were their policies Internet censorship, “stepping up the war on terror,” and attacking human rights are not exactly winners with most of the general public.
It looks as if Theresa May is going to form a coalition with Democratic Unionist Party so she will probably still be Prime Minister but she definitely is not a strong and stable one. The Democratic Unionist Party along with Labour, Scottish Nation Party, Liberal Democrats and other smaller party’s could now make Theresa May’s life a nightmare lets hope they do.
IS THIS DEMOCRACY?
We in Britain claim that we are democratic, we have the right to vote and freedom of choice or so they say! Our government criticize nations like North Korea for not giving people freedom of choice. They tell us that the North Korean government or corrupt, a dictatorship and they claim the North Korean government control all media, TV and employ strict Internet censorship and maybe they do, I don’t know I have never been to North Korea.
I do however live in Britain and everything they are telling us they North Korean government do our government do. The BBC for example are Blatantly Backing Conservatives, its like they are telling us you have a choice vote this strong and stable government or this clown that is going to destroy the economy and therefore your lives. Does that sound like a choice?
Not satisfied with controlling the mainstream media they also employ strict Internet censorship, they tell us it is to combat extremism but NOBODY I know is as extreme as the conservative government. People are dying and living in poverty while our government fund corporate tax evasion, war and nuclear weapon programs (as well as there own high wages topped up by their expenses.) They claim its all fake news and extremism but is it? Because when I read most of this “extremism” I believe I am reading real people speaking about real issues that effect them as individuals. They are simply excising the freedom of speech we don’t have because if they were really fighting against extremism they would be fighting the hate filled Daily Mail or the dumb as fuck Sun newspaper not the people.
What is the point in having the right to vote if half of the argument is censored and unheard?
I believe real freedom of choice comes from freedom to read and watch whatever you want to before making a decision, if the Conservative party are going to simply censor their own population how can people make a decision that represents the way they feel? They can’t.
Censorship is only ever employed due to the fact that the oppressor recognizes they can not win an argument so they silence their opposition. In the other words the Conservatives are not only relying on the corporate media to win this election they are also relying on the people they wage war against to remain silent and if we don’t remain silent they will attempt to silence us with censorship, as so many people in Britain are doing at the moment its time to make some noise.
2017 GENERAL ELECTION, PROPAGANDA and FEAR MONGERING by BBC, Sky News and all mainstream media.
I very rarely watch TV or mainstream media but recently I went to visit family and had no Internet which meant I was subjected to watching the BBC, Sky News and reading the “newspapers” version of the news. Because according to the mainstream media in the UK the real news seems to be the Conservatives are the only real option and Jeremy Corbyn is an idiot as is anybody that supports him or plans on voting for him!
Sky News and the BBC (funded for by the people as are the government) are using shocking levels of propaganda for the Conservatives and against Jeremy Corbyn. I was watching Sky News discuss the newspaper headlines on Saturday night and was genuinely shocked by the biasedness that Sky News show when discussing politics on their shit channel. There where two people giving their opinions one was blatantly pro Tory and the other was a “Labour voter that did not believe Labour were worth voting anymore mainly due to Jeremy Corbyn!” How does he work that out? Because Labour have moved away from being the Red Tories they became known as they are not electable? If people wanted the Tories they would vote the Tories at least Jeremy Corbyn does seem to offer a genuine alternative.
Jeremy Corbyn speaks up for the working class that the Conservatives attack and extort, he talks about affordable housing, social equality, food bank, corporate tax evasion, war crimes committed by our elected governments and allies. Theresa May on the other hand talks about Britain’s nuclear weapons program, she speaks up for corporations, big businesses, her lobby masters and the rich.
The mainstream media ask “can we trust Labour with the economy?” I ask “can we trust the Conservatives with our schools, the NHS, public services, can we trust them with anything?” This is a party that overwhelmingly voted to silence whistle blowers exposing elitist paedophile rings and have an History of Riots against them and propaganda for them FFS.
On paper Jeremy Corbyn is an obvious vote yet most polls seem to be predicting a landslide victory for the Conservatives. I think Jeremy Corbyn is suffering from the huge lack of trust we as a nation have in politicians, we are so used to hearing them talk shit many people believe Jeremy Corbyn is just another one of them liars and money governed corrupt politicians that would argue black is blue for a few quid. And maybe he is, I don’t know but I know Theresa May definitely is.
Jeremy Corbyn should be elected because he has the better policies for the vast majority of people in Britain, he seems to want to take money from the rich to help the poor unlike Theresa May she just wants to carry on funding tax evasion and wars.
I honestly believe it would be a dark day if Britain allows somebody as oppressive as Theresa May and the Conservatives to win an election against somebody like Jeremy Corbyn who does seem to care and address real issues that effect real people. Will Corbyn even stay true to his word and fight for the people? I don’t know but I do believe he should be given the chance.
Snap general election in the UK.
Today Theresa May stunned Westminster by demanding a snap general election on 8 June that she hopes will turn her party’s clear lead in the opinion polls into a healthy parliamentary majority and secure her vision for Brexit, which seems to be to turn the UK into a tax free zone for corporations and carry on extorting the working classes and ignoring the poor.
I believe that this election is a perfect opportunity for the British people to rid our nation of these corporate puppet parasites but lets be honest it will probably not happen. Not because Theresa May has better policies or ideas than Jeremy Corbyn but because Theresa has millionaire lobbyists and the mainstream media to help her. Not only that she and her party also relies on and implies harsh censorship on anybody that does not support her!
On her Easter Sunday speech to the nation she claimed that Britain should use Christian values to function as a country, I agree with her but obviously do not believe her. Real Christian values is based around the beliefs of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ told us to help the poor yet the Conservatives actually spend most of their time extorting the poor and feeding the rich.
I would love to see Jeremy Corbyn win this election because I believe he is the real deal but I understand he has a huge fight on his hands. He is fighting against the pro Conservative British media, Aristocrats and the rich in general as well as Great British Ignorance and snobbishness. His supporters are censored and silenced so how can anybody claim that is election will be fair anyway?
I believe it is up to the poor to vote because if the poor do turn out in numbers and vote for the people who really represent them Corbyn would win by a landslide. Unfortunately the poor do not tend to vote so no matter how fair and balanced Jeremy Corbyn’s ideas are he is still up against it.
The middle classes and the upper classes are not going to vote for fairer taxes because fairer taxes would end up costing them money so its up to the poorer classes to vote for fairer taxes.
America voted Donald Trump to the surprise of nearly everybody unfortunately he seems to be another puppet to corporations and Israel, Corbyn has made it clear he is ANTI Israel and ANTI corporate greed as well as anti Saudi Arabia, therefore I believe he should be given a chance to change the direction of our nation for the better and his policies are (at least on paper) much closer to real Christian values than Theresa May’s. She oppressed the truth about Britain’s paedophile elite, she is another pro Royalist, pro Aristocratic puppet so without trying to sound overly biased (like the mainstream media are) I say VOTE CORBYN before we end up with another Margret Thatcher in power.
2015 GENERAL ELECTION + BRITISH DEMOCRACY = FARCE.
In my opinion (and I followed the election fairly intensely on the internet and the T.V) propaganda and fear was a large part of the reason Labour lost, but Ed Miliband made huge mistakes. Ed Miliband is now spoken about like he was some left wing, weak leader despite the fact that at the start of the campaign he was not much more to the left than the Conservatives. As the campaign went on he started to move to the left probably in order to win votes with the anti Tory majority, but the anti Tory majority still remember Tony Blair and his oil wars, they do not look at Labour as the left wing saviors of the people instead they look at Labour as the Red Tories. “You can not win when you are as left wing as Miliband” so called political experts are claiming, they are wrong and in a way this election has proved them wrong, how?
The Scottish National Party taken nearly every seat in Scotland and they were at least at the start of the campaign much more to the left than Labour, but the Scottish National Party have an advantage, people in Scotland trust them and obviously feel represented by them. After the war in Iraq, the bank bail out and the Labour parties failure to represent “the left wing or the poor” in the past, the masses in England still feel that Labour are not a real alternative to the Conservatives. I am not saying they are exactly the same but when in power Labour were not that different. Labour also turned a blind eye to corporate tax evasion and made deals with news corporation. Having said that I still cannot believe the Tories won, which got me reading and it turns out that 1992 election was very similar, a “late surge of Tory support undetected by the polls” led to a Conservative majority as Wikipedia describes;
United Kingdom general election, 1992
Polling
Almost every poll leading up to polling day predicted either a hung parliament, with Labour the largest party or a small Labour majority of around 19 to 23. Polls on the last few days before the country voted predicted a very slim Labour majority.
With opinion polls at the end of the campaign showing Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck, the actual election result was a surprise to many in the media and in polling organisations. The apparent failure of the opinion polls to come close to predicting the actual result led to an inquiry by the Market Research Society. Following the election, most opinion polling companies changed their methodology in the belief that a ‘Shy Tory Factor‘ affected the polling.
THE 2015 ISRAELI ELECTION also saw right winged Likud party win after a “late surge in support”
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog concedes election after prime minister recovers from low poll numbers in runup to vote to lead his Likud party to 30 seats in Knesset
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party has scored a dramatic election victory, surging past its main rival – the centre-left Zionist Union – to win the most seats in the Knesset.
A series of exit polls released at the close of voting on Tuesday night had suggested the Zionist Union and its leader, Isaac Herzog, were neck and neck with Netanyahu.
But by Wednesday morning official results had stretched to a decisive five-seat lead for Likud, making it almost certain that Netanyahu would serve a third consecutive term as prime minister.
Herzog said he had spoken with Netanyahu to congratulate him on his election victory. “A few minutes ago I spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and congratulated him on his achievement and wished him luck,” Herzog told reporters.
He said his leftist Zionist Union party would continue to be an alternative to Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud.
Netanyahu will still have to assemble a coalition government but his seat count means he will be in a far more commanding position as he seeks partners.
Stolen van held Hastings and Eastbourne ballot papers, BBC NEWS.
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29 April 2015
- From the section Election 2015 England
A van containing more than 200,000 ballot papers destined for polls in East Sussex has been stolen. The papers had been printed in London and were being taken to two constituencies – Hastings and Rye and Eastbourne – ahead of voting in the general election on 7 May. Metropolitan Police officers alerted both Hastings and Eastbourne councils about the theft in London overnight. Officers found nothing to suggest the van was targeted for its contents. Police told the local authorities they believed it was a coincidence the stolen van contained ballot papers. The theft is still being investigated.
The ballot papers had been printed in London and were heading for Hastings and Rye and Eastbourne – ahead of voting in the general election on 7 May. Police said it was believed the van was parked in Longbridge Road, Dagenham, at about 19:30. The theft was discovered at about 06:25.
Labour had been expected to win in Hastings and Rye. Hastings & Rye – Lord Ashcroft Polls. In Hastings and Rye, the Conservative candidate Amber Rudd surprisingly won with 22,686 votes with Sarah Owen, Labour’s candidate, receiving 17,890 votes.
Sounds dodgy.
The Independent reporting the news with no bias whatsoever!
READ MORE.
Concerns over ballot rigging after last-minute flood of postal votes
A last-minute deluge of postal votes allegedly sparked concerns about ballot rigging at Milton Keynes Council.
Instead of the anticipated four or five ballot boxes, 18 brimming boxes containing more than 4,600 votes turned up at the council offices yesterday.
Today election organisers insisted nothing seemed amiss – and blamed postal delays caused by the bank holiday.
They are, however, awaiting with interest to see how many more posted votes arrive before the 10pm deadline today, say sources.
The Wednesday deluge was so unexpected that an email was sent to council staff asking for help in counting the votes. Many volunteers worked well into the night.
A source said: “There was certainly concern and suspicion at one stage. This was more than four times the expected number of papers arriving in one day, and it did not fit in with previous trends.”
Other sources claim helpers were told to check all papers meticulously by hand to check they were genuine.
Other signs of postal vote fraud could include larger than expected numbers of papers returned from one ward or constituency.
Scrap postal votes or elections will be fixed, says judge who warns ballot-rigging is now a ‘probability’ in parts of Britain
- Judge Richard Marvey, who presides over electoral fraud, made warning
- He said introducing ‘on demand’ postal voting did not boost turnout
- But it has opened the electoral system to fraud on ‘an industrial scale’
Fresh voting fraud in scandal-hit borough of Tower Hamlets
Postal ballot papers for Thursday’s general election have been sent out to a block of flats in Tower Hamlets which has been a building site for months
A new outbreak of voting fraud is underway this week in the London borough whose elected mayor was dismissed by a High Court judge for corruption and vote-rigging.
Postal ballot papers for Thursday’s general election have been sent out to a block of flats in Tower Hamlets which has been a building site for months, council records seen by the Telegraph confirm.
The property – owned by Tower Hamlets council – is completely boarded up, surrounded by hoardings and without any sign of habitation.However, letters can still be delivered there. None of the people who supposedly applied for the votes lives at the property and at least one is dead.
‘RIGGED UK GENERAL ELECTION’ – MAY 2015
Vehicle containing blank election ballot papers destined for polls in Eastbourne as well as Hastings and Rye has been stolen in London, say police
A van carrying more than 200,000 ballot papers for next week’s parliamentary and council elections has been stolen.
The papers had been printed in London and were being taken to two constituencies – Hastings and Rye, and Eastbourne – before voting in the general election on 7 May.
The Metropolitan police, which are investigating the theft of the vehicle from Dagenham in east London, has informed Hastings and Eastbourne councils.
Officers found nothing to suggest the white Mercedes van had been targeted for its contents or that the theft was an attempt at electoral fraud. They told the local authorities they believed it was a coincidence the stolen van contained ballot papers. The theft took place overnight.
The vehicle contained 72,300 voting slips for Hastings and Rye, and 130,000 for Eastbourne. A Hastings council spokesman said: “We have been in touch with the Electoral Commission and, following their guidance, we have put a process in place which will ensure that these ballot papers are not used for fraudulent purposes and cannot be included in the count.”
EASTBOURNE appeared to be a safe seat for the Lib Dems in Lord Ashcroft poll in September 2014.
Hastings & Rye
Labour had been expected to win in Hastings and Rye.
Tories win two seats they were expected to lose both seats had ballot papers stolen, COINCIDENCE?
THE GUARDIAN
10 May 2015
George Galloway to mount legal challenge over election defeat
Former Respect MP announces he has begun legal proceedings to have result of Bradford West election set aside.
George Galloway has said that he has begun legal proceedings to overturn the election result in Bradford West, after he lost by more than 11,000 votes to the Labour candidate, Naz Shah.
Labour called the former Respect MP “pathetic” after he said he was hoping to get Shah debarred as an MP. Galloway accused her of lying about him on Urdu television and of falsely claiming to have been forced into marriage at 15.
Galloway also claims to have uncovered “widespread malpractice” in the battle for Bradford West, including postal voting fraud.
The Bradford West contest was dogged by claims and counter-claims between Labour and Respect over a number of issues, especially relating to Shah’s family background.
Shah – who won the seat on a 29.7% swing from Respect, polling 19,977 votes to Galloway’s 8,557 – has vowed to sue Galloway for calling the circumstances of her marriage into question.
Announcing his legal bid to overturn the election result, Galloway said: “It has come to my notice that there has been widespread malpractice in this election, particularly over postal voting. We are in the process of compiling the information which will form part of our petition to have the result set aside.”
Galloway has also added to a previous complaint he had made under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, which concerns false statements made with the intention of affecting the result of an election.
“An allegation made by Naz Shah in Urdu on a well-watched Asian TV show is both untrue and extremely serious,” he said.
Conceding defeat in the early hours of Friday morning, Galloway said: “I don’t begrudge the Labour members here their moment of celebration, of course.
“But there will be others who are already celebrating: the venal, the vile, the racists and the Zionists will all be celebrating. The hyena can bounce on the lion’s grave but it can never be a lion and in any case, I’m not in my grave. As a matter of fact, I’m going off now to plan the next campaign.”
THE GUARDIAN
23 May 2014
West Yorkshire accounts for nearly half of claims of ‘ghost’ voters, false statements and multiple votes being investigated
Police across the UK have been asked to investigate more than 50 allegations of electoral fraud related to Thursday’s elections in areas previously identified as vulnerable to vote-rigging, new figures show.Officers in Manchester, Bradford, London and Birmingham have begun inquiries after receiving complaints about “ghost” voters, false statements by candidates and multiple attempts to vote by a single person.The inquiries have emerged after the Guardian contacted police forces covering 16 areas that the elections watchdog has identified as being vulnerable to electoral fraud, particularly around the use of postal votes.
As well as Birmingham and Bradford, they include Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Calderdale, Coventry, Derby, Hyndburn, Kirklees, Oldham, Pendle, Peterborough, Slough, Tower Hamlets, Walsall and Woking.
West Yorkshire police, whose officers serve Bradford where former councillors have been imprisoned for electoral fraud, said they had received 21 allegations of electoral irregularities.
DI Ian Lawrie, of protective services (crime), said: “We have currently had 21 allegations that have been recorded for further investigation for election-related incidents. These include a number of matters under the Representation of the People Act 1983.”
On Thursday, there were 14 investigations across Greater London, according to a Metropolitan police spokesman. These included the arrest of two prospective councillors in Tower Hamlets, east London, and Enfield, north London, for false declarations on election papers. Police have also been asked to investigate allegations of intimidation and tampering with postal votes in the east London borough.
West Midlands police, which oversees parts of Birmingham and Walsall, said that they had received 11 allegations of electoral fraud.
In Greater Manchester, police have launched five inquiries – three inquiries into the eligibility of candidates to stand in the elections, one into a claim that a person had voted twice and another into claims of a false statement on an election leaflet, a spokesman said.
Ukip have sought to exploit electoral fraud allegations in Oldham, which is overseen by Greater Manchester police, by lampooning postal vote fraud in an election leaflet. The document, distributed by a former Labour councillor, claimed that it was easy for certain councillors to win because they can count on “the white folk not voting”.
A spokesman for Lancashire police, which covers towns including Burnley, Darwen and Hyndburn, where there have been previous allegations of fraud, said they would only release information about electoral fraud if an application was made under the Freedom of Information Act – a process that can take weeks.
Thames Valley police said they had received eight allegations of minor misconduct relating to issues such as printing irregularities, four of which have been resolved, but had not received any claims of electoral fraud.
Surrey, Derbyshire and Cambridgeshire police have not yet released any figures.
An Electoral Commission report in January identified the 16 boroughs and cities as vulnerable to electoral fraud and called for increased police involvement in elections.
At one point the commission considered dropping postal voting in these areas to combat fraud. But, following a public consultation, it decided this would unfairly hit many ordinary people who needed to vote by post.
Instead, it has urged the police to patrol polling stations during elections in the 16 named areas and dedicate more resources to investigating electoral-fraud allegations, which critics complain have been a low priority for the police.
HACKNEY GAZETTE.
6 May 2015.
Polling ‘scandal’ affects thousands – despite Hackney Council denying problems last week
12:45 06 May 2015
Hackney Town Hall, of Mare Street.
Hackney Council has been forced to admit there has been a problem issuing thousands of voters with ballot papers – many of whom may have lost out on their chance to vote tomorrow.
Town Hall last week categorically denied there was a backlog in issuing postal vote papers when the Gazette reported how a student had lost her vote because it failed to arrive before she travelled abroad, despite applying two months earlier.
But after more complaints flooded in, the council admitted on Friday that as many as 3,000 people were affected by a delay in sending out their postal votes after the cut-off date of April 22, and had promised to courier the final 270 out on Friday.
However, on Monday many people were still complaining that they had still not got their ballot papers through.
Residents new to the borough are also affected, like Amanda Fitzalan Howard who finds it “scandalous” she has lost her vote.
She received a letter in March stating that her application was on track, but discovered this week she is not on the electoral register.
She said: “On calling electoral services I have been told that they have had thousands of complaints and they blamed the new system. I was told that there was absolutely nothing I can do.”
Meanwhile, Anna Harte complained on Twitter: “My partner was only told yesterday that they need his passport. We registered in Feb!”
Becky Horsbrugh replied: “This seems to have been an issue for weeks and the council clearly not addressed it.”
Another residents, Claire Mason tweeted: “Failure of my borough’s infrastructure means that I have been… denied a vote.”
The council blamed the high number of postal vote applications – which stands at 28,000 – and the government’s new Individual Electoral Registration which meant that they had to cross-check every application with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), via a new online registration service.
A spokesman said: “In Hackney we had a very large number of people whose details didn’t match – and also people voting from their address for the first time, which meant they needed to register under IER.
“The problem has been getting the registration confirmation from the government and then processing the postal ballot application – all of which must be verified.”
MP who blew whistle on ‘banana republic’ postal vote rigging a decade ago says city still has a problem
Ten years on from the postal vote fraud scandal which saw Birmingham’s political system likened to a ‘banana republic’ an MP says he is sure there is still election fraud today.
The city council election on June 10, 2004 was perhaps the darkest day in Birmingham’s political history as it marred by vote rigging on an industrial scale which left trust in the electoral system shattered.
Yardley Lib Dem MP John Hemming, together with his colleague barrister Ayoub Khan, brought the resulting postal vote fraud court cases which a year later lead to six inner-city Labour councillors being sacked and elections in Aston and Bordesley Green re-run.
High Court Judge Richard Mawrey QC, presiding over the election court, famously declared the fraud “would disgrace a banana republic,” after his election court found there was a campaign by Labour Party activists to forge, steal, and alter thousands of postal votes.
The extent of fraud was uncovered when police found candidates and supporters handling unsealed postal ballots in a deserted warehouse in Birch Road East, Aston during a late-night raid two days before the election.
Problems also became apparent when the number of postal votes rocketed from 28,000 in 2003 to 70,000 in 2004 – and witnesses saw people delivering bags full of ballot papers to polling stations and counts.
Although the regulations were tightened in the light of the case, particularly over candidates and supporters farming votes from residents, there are sill concerns over fraud.
Former Coun Ayoub Khan pictured on Priory Queensway in Birmingham city centre
Looking back, Mr Hemming said that while it is unlikely that fraud on that industrial scale is taking place, it does still happen in Birmingham.
He said: “There was a small amount of progress after the Election Court. But there is still vote fraud going on in this city. There are signs of it.”
He is convinced there is a problem with personation, where somebody goes to a polling station and gives the name of someone else, usually a known non-voter, and takes their ballot.
“You can go from polling station to polling station, an individual could vote 20 times like this. I am checking details of ten people we know who never vote but who are down as having voted.”
He argues that only by demanding a photo identification, as is required in Northern Ireland, that this problem could be eliminated.
He also believes there is some postal vote fraud, and during the last election campaign published a photo on his website of a single post box stuffed with ballots.
Of the six Labour councillors sacked in 2005, five, Shah Jahan, Shafaq Ahmed, Ayaz Khan, Mohammed Nazrul Islam and Mohammed Amin Kazi, have never returned to front line politics after serving their suspensions.
Only Muhammed Afzal successfully challenged the findings against him at the Court of Appeal. He returned to the council in 2007 and is now chairman of human resources.
BBC NEWS
10 May 2015, Protests already.
Police arrest 15 in anti-austerity protest in London
Fifteen people, including a 16-year-old boy, were arrested following clashes with police during an anti-austerity protest close to Downing Street.
Officers in riot gear clashed with a “minority” of protesters who threw objects during the rally – which came after the Tory election victory.
Met Police said four police officers and a police staff member were injured.
A police investigation is also under way after graffiti referring to “Tory scum” was daubed on a war memorial.
Met Police said of the 15 arrested, 14 people been bailed pending further inquiries including a full review of CCTV footage and a 24-year-old man remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assault on police.
The election for the post of Mayor of Tower Hamlets will be re-run after the judgement
In a withering judgment, Richard Mawrey QC, sitting as an Election Commissioner, said Mr Rahman had “driven a coach and horses through election law – and didn’t care”.
The judge said the former mayor, who was elected to a second term last year, had focused his electoral machine on the borough’s large Bangladeshi community – effectively bribing voters by targeting them with generous grants and using the influence of a senior cleric to tell Muslims it was their duty to vote for him.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A duty to the nation
Lately we’ve grown so used to stunning economic news that there’s a danger of seeing it as nothing out of the ordinary.
But let’s not forget it’s thanks to sound policies that two reports yesterday predicted robust growth in the second quarter, putting us on course for a world-beating performance over the year.
At this 11th hour, the Mail makes one final plea to Ukip sympathisers: don’t let your vote help Ed Miliband wreck the country we all love.
Miliband will bring back uncontrolled migration: Stark warning from Cameron as he urges Ukip voters not to hand Labour power
- Cameron has issued to plea to Ukip voters not to allow Labour into power
- He said that he understands people’s fears and worries’ about immigration
- PM said votes for Ukip could halt Conservatives chance and may result in no referendum for Europe and with it a return to uncontrolled immigration
Save our bacon
Don’t swallow his porkies and keep him OUT
TODAY The Sun exposes Ed Miliband’s lies and asks YOU to vote Tory to insure that his wreckless socialism does not put a halt to Britain’s recovery.
Unless you are in Scotland!
STATS LIKE THIS SHOW THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS RIGGED.
VOTES PER MP ELECTED:
UKIP : 3,881,129
Greens : 1,157,613
LIB : 301,968
Labour : 40,290
Tory : 34,244
SNP : 25,972
PENCILS USED TO VOTE.
When filling our forms in how many people used pencil? I did as that is what was provided by the polling office, I thought to myself at the time why use the one and only thing that is erasable? I am not the only one to think this. In 2012 a spokesperson from the Irish Department of the Environment told TheJournal.ie that pencils are “more sustainable and, above all, more reliable. In the event of the ballot papers getting wet before the count, pencil marks will remain. Pen marks may not.” But pencils can be erased therefore they are easier to manipulate whereas pens are impossible to remove and hide, I believe protecting the ballots from manipulation is more important than protecting them from water and I am also pretty sure most cheap pens would remain even if they do get wet.
MORE ON THE TOWER HAMLETS SCANDAL THAT ALSO INCLUDED THE DOCTORING OF POSTAL BALLOTS (ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW EASY IT SEEMS TO BE TO MANIPULATE VOTES)
Mr Mawrey said: “The evidence laid before this court has disclosed an alarming state of affairs in Tower Hamlets. This is not the consequence of the racial and religious mix of the population, nor is it linked to any ascertainable pattern of social or other deprivation. It is the result of the ruthless ambition of one man.”
The former mayor, who had denied the allegations against him as “invention” and “exaggeration”, said the judgment was a “shock” and suggested he was considering seeking a judicial review of the findings. In a statement, THF said: “This result has been surprising to say the least.”
Mr Rahman, a solicitor specialising in family law, had emerged from the vexed politics of Tower Hamlets, where George Galloway’s Respect party scored a number of notable victories over Labour in the wake of the Iraq War, as an urbane and independent mayor after falling out with Labour himself in 2010.
But his critics complained that rather than uniting one of Britain’s most diverse boroughs, Mr Rahman had surrounded himself with a “clique” of THF councillors. Along with his allies, Mr Rahman was accused of securing a second term with the help of measures including the doctoring of postal ballots and intimidatory tactics on election day which left one young woman in tears.
Mr Mawrey said Mr Rahman, whom he described an “evasive” witness, was a man who “perceives racism everywhere” and along with his lieutenants had repeatedly used accusations of racial prejudice or Islamophobia as a stock response to criticism.
The judge found that the former mayor had run a “ruthless and dishonest” campaign to portray his Labour rival in 2014, John Biggs, as a racist and also worked “hand in glove” with the head of the borough’s council of mosques to ensure that Muslims were told they had a duty vote for Mr Rahman.
A key tool in Mr Rahman’s electoral armoury was “bribery by grant”, under which he and a small number of aides took control of deciding the sums to be donated to community groups, the judge found.
Mr Mawrey said grants were substantially increased for some groups in defiance of recommendations by Tower Hamlets’ officials and other grants, such as that to the Alzheimer’s Society, slashed to free up funds for previously ineligible recipients. In one case, grants totalling £100,000 were handed out to ten Bangladeshi or other Muslim groups for lunch clubs when none had even applied for funding.
Noting that the “lion’s share” of grants went to Bangladeshi organisations, the judge found: “The main thrust of Mr Rahman’s political campaigning… was to target the Bangladeshi community and to convince that community that loyalty to the community meant loyalty to him.”
The controversial mayor lost his powers over grants last year when Communities Secretary Eric Pickles sent in commissioners to take over a number of functions in Tower Hamlets council. Mr Pickles said yesterday’s judgment was a “vindication” of that decision.
Andy Erlam, one of the quartet of voters who brought the case and whose “exemplary courage” in doing so was praised by Mr Mawrey, said: “It is a fantastic result for democracy. There will have to be a new election for mayor. Mr Rahman cannot stand.”
READ MORE: HOW CORRUPTION SCANDAL GOES FAR BEYOND JUST RAHMAN
RAHMAN PLAYED THE ISLAMOPHOBIA CARD TO SILENCE HIS CRITICS
A new ballot may be held as early as June.
One of Mr Rahman’s closest aides, Alibor Choudhury, was also found guilty of corruption and illegal practices.
Mr Mawrey said the case proved the need for those in authority to challenge wrongdoing even when there were concerns it could lead to counter-allegations of racism.
He said: “Mr Rahman and Mr Choudhury… spent a great deal of time accusing their opponents of ‘dividing the community’, but if anyone was ‘dividing the community’, it was they.”
The judgment: ‘ruthless ambition’
“The evidence laid before this court, limited though it necessarily was to the issues raised in the petition, has disclosed an alarming state of affairs in Tower Hamlets. This is not the consequence of the racial and religious mix of the population, nor is it linked to any ascertainable pattern of social or other deprivation. It is the result of the ruthless ambition of one man.
“The real losers in this case are the citizens of Tower Hamlets and, in particular, the Bangladeshi community. Their natural and laudable sense of solidarity has been cynically perverted into a sense of isolation and victimhood, and their devotion to their religion has been manipulated – all for the aggrandisement of Mr Rahman. The result has been to alienate them from the other communities in the borough and to create resentment… Mr Rahman and Mr Choudhury… spent a great deal of time accusing their opponents, especially Mr Biggs, of ‘dividing the community’ but, if anyone was ‘dividing the community’, it was they.
“The Bangladeshi community might have thought itself fortunate to have been the recipient of the mayor’s lavish spending but in the end the benefits were small and temporary and the ill effects long-lasting. It was fool’s gold.
“Central government has already had to intervene once, and, on 4 November 2014, the Secretary of State, Mr Eric Pickles, announced the appointment of commissioners to take over a number of functions of the mayor and council, particularly in relation to grants. It is obviously not for this court to… recommend any further course of action but it seems likely that the governance of this borough will have to be examined in the not too distant future.
“On past form, it appears inevitable that Mr Rahman will denounce this judgment as yet another example of the racism and Islamophobia that have hounded him throughout his political life. It is nothing of the sort. Mr Rahman has made a successful career by ignoring or flouting the law (as this petition demonstrates) and has relied on silencing his critics by accusations of racism and Islamophobia. But his critics have not been silenced and neither has this court.
“Events of recent months in contexts very different from electoral malpractice have starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia. The law must be applied fairly and equally to everyone. Otherwise we are lost.”
TWEETS FROM #THANETRIGGED
Do they expect us to believe that so many people vote for UKIP but won’t vote for the party leader in General Election?#ThanetRigged
So @UKIP have controll over Thanet council but no UKIP MP? Thers a rabbit away if you ask me. #Thanetrigged
Counting at South Thanet should have started at 2am latest. It started at 8:30am – 7.5 hrs later #ThanetRigged
In light of what has happened the Tory MP in South Thanet should trigger a by election if he has got any decency.#ThanetRigged
#ThanetRigged Is there any where else where UKIP’s MP candidate got half the votes as the council candidates?
Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy #ThanetRigged
Kent Police reject claims of electoral fraud in South Thanet where Farage failed to become an MP
- Tory Craig Mackinley beat Ukip leader Nigel Farage by 2,800 votes
- Ukip supporters claimed the result was rigged after party won council
- But Kent Police said initial inquiries suggested there is ‘no evidence’
Police have rejected conspiracy theorist claims that the election in South Thanet was rigged to stop Nigel Farage becoming an MP.
Tory candidate Craig Mackinlay won the seat in Thursday’s election, beating the Ukip leader by 2,800 votes.
The margin of the Tory win sparked claims that the result had been fixed, but Kent Police today said that ‘initial inquiries’ suggest there is ‘no evidence’ of electoral fraud.
Some have also questioned the high turn out of Thanet South.
THE SCOTS SEEN IT COMING!
RUSSIA TODAY
General election fix? Anti-rigging campaigners issue last-minute tips to save SNP
Published time: May 06, 2015 17:13
Anti-rigging campaigners have alerted Scottish election officials of a possible general election fix targeting the SNP. They are calling on voters to photograph their ballot papers for verification.
#PeopleNOTpolls: Join the conversation
The pro-independence campaigners, who believe last year’s referendum was rigged, are eager to avoid any alleged repeat during the general election.
Police and election officials categorized the allegations in the “context of conspiracy theories after the referendum.”
The Scottish National Party (SNP) are “at high risk” of being victimized by an election fix, campaigners say.
The anti-rigging campaign, named Operation Scallop, is using its name as hashtag to teach people on social media how to vote “safely.”
To prevent ballot papers from being tampered with, they have shared an image on Twitter containing a list of instructions for voters to abide by.
A BBC ARTICLE EXPOSING ELECTORAL FRAUD FROM 2005.
When talking about electoral fraud the postal vote is usually mentioned too!
Judge upholds vote-rigging claims |
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A judge investigating vote-rigging in Birmingham’s local elections has ruled there was widespread fraud and has ordered new elections.Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC upheld allegations of postal fraud relating to six seats won by Labour in the ballot of 10 June last year. The results have been declared void and the polls in two wards must be rerun. “The system is wide open to fraud and any would-be political fraudster knows that,” Judge Mawrey said.
Judge Mawrey said evidence of “massive, systematic and organised fraud” in the campaign had made a mockery of the election and ruled that not less than 1,500 votes had been cast fraudulently in the city. The deputy high court judge said the system was “hopelessly insecure” and expressed regret that recent warnings about the failings had been dismissed by the government as “scaremongering”. He criticised the government’s insistence that the current postal voting system was working, adding: “Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising.”
Mr Mawrey had heard petitions lodged against six Labour councillors, who all strenuously deny that they abused the postal ballot system. The first petition was brought by the People’s Justice Party (PJP) against three representatives of the Bordesley Green ward, Shafaq Ahmed, Shah Jahan and Ayaz Khan. They walked out of last month’s hearing on the first day after Judge Mawrey refused an application for an adjournment to allow them further time to prepare their case. The second petition was raised by Liberal Democrat supporters against three Aston representatives, Mohammed Islam, Muhammed Afzal and Mohammed Kazi. Unsealed ballots During the hearings, which were held at the Birmingham and Midland Institute and lasted four weeks, Judge Mawrey heard how the trio were caught operating a “vote-rigging factory”. The police described how they found Mr Islam, Mr Afzal and Mr Kazi handling unsealed postal ballots in a deserted warehouse in the city.
The petitioners also accused the city’s returning officer and chief executive Lin Homer of failing to discharge her duties in accordance with electoral law. Judge Mawrey said that Ms Homer “threw the rule book out of the window” to deal with overwhelming numbers of postal vote application forms received. Solicitor Chaman Salhan, who represents two of the councillors, said the men had not been given enough time to prepare their defence. “They are victims of circumstance – in effect we have had a criminal trial under civil procedures,” Mr Salhan said. Urgent action West Midlands Police told BBC News that they were currently not pursuing a criminal inquiry. A spokesman for the force said: “We will review the judgement and see if any issues need to be addressed. Nothing relating to the case is in progress at the moment.” Speaking outside court, a spokesman for the People’s Justice Party called for postal voting to be outlawed at the general election. “The commissioner has confirmed our fear that there is every likelihood that the forthcoming general election will be blighted by postal vote fraud,” he said. The Electoral Reform Society said urgent action was needed to protect and maintain confidence in the voting system. Mr Mawrey ordered that none of the six councillors be allowed to stand for the vacant seats at the next election. |
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There is every likelihood that the forthcoming general election will be blighted by postal vote fraud
YET MORE EVIDENCE OF ELECTION RIGGING.
The election for the post of Mayor of Tower Hamlets will be re-run after the judgement
In a withering judgment, Richard Mawrey QC, sitting as an Election Commissioner, said Mr Rahman had “driven a coach and horses through election law – and didn’t care”.
The judge said the former mayor, who was elected to a second term last year, had focused his electoral machine on the borough’s large Bangladeshi community – effectively bribing voters by targeting them with generous grants and using the influence of a senior cleric to tell Muslims it was their duty to vote for him.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A duty to the nation
Lately we’ve grown so used to stunning economic news that there’s a danger of seeing it as nothing out of the ordinary.
But let’s not forget it’s thanks to sound policies that two reports yesterday predicted robust growth in the second quarter, putting us on course for a world-beating performance over the year.
At this 11th hour, the Mail makes one final plea to Ukip sympathisers: don’t let your vote help Ed Miliband wreck the country we all love.
Miliband will bring back uncontrolled migration: Stark warning from Cameron as he urges Ukip voters not to hand Labour power
- Cameron has issued to plea to Ukip voters not to allow Labour into power
- He said that he understands people’s fears and worries’ about immigration
- PM said votes for Ukip could halt Conservatives chance and may result in no referendum for Europe and with it a return to uncontrolled immigration
Save our bacon
Don’t swallow his porkies and keep him OUT
TODAY The Sun exposes Ed Miliband’s lies and asks YOU to vote Tory to insure that his wreckless socialism does not put a halt to Britain’s recovery.
Unless you are in Scotland!
STATS LIKE THIS SHOW THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS RIGGED.
VOTES PER MP ELECTED:
UKIP : 3,881,129
Greens : 1,157,613
LIB : 301,968
Labour : 40,290
Tory : 34,244
SNP : 25,972
PENCILS USED TO VOTE.
When filling our forms in how many people used pencil? I did as that is what was provided by the polling office, I thought to myself at the time why use the one and only thing that is erasable? I am not the only one to think this. In 2012 a spokesperson from the Irish Department of the Environment told TheJournal.ie that pencils are “more sustainable and, above all, more reliable. In the event of the ballot papers getting wet before the count, pencil marks will remain. Pen marks may not.” But pencils can be erased therefore they are easier to manipulate whereas pens are impossible to remove and hide, I believe protecting the ballots from manipulation is more important than protecting them from water and I am also pretty sure most cheap pens would remain even if they do get wet.
MORE ON THE TOWER HAMLETS SCANDAL THAT ALSO INCLUDED THE DOCTORING OF POSTAL BALLOTS (ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW EASY IT SEEMS TO BE TO MANIPULATE VOTES)
Mr Mawrey said: “The evidence laid before this court has disclosed an alarming state of affairs in Tower Hamlets. This is not the consequence of the racial and religious mix of the population, nor is it linked to any ascertainable pattern of social or other deprivation. It is the result of the ruthless ambition of one man.”
The former mayor, who had denied the allegations against him as “invention” and “exaggeration”, said the judgment was a “shock” and suggested he was considering seeking a judicial review of the findings. In a statement, THF said: “This result has been surprising to say the least.”
Mr Rahman, a solicitor specialising in family law, had emerged from the vexed politics of Tower Hamlets, where George Galloway’s Respect party scored a number of notable victories over Labour in the wake of the Iraq War, as an urbane and independent mayor after falling out with Labour himself in 2010.
But his critics complained that rather than uniting one of Britain’s most diverse boroughs, Mr Rahman had surrounded himself with a “clique” of THF councillors. Along with his allies, Mr Rahman was accused of securing a second term with the help of measures including the doctoring of postal ballots and intimidatory tactics on election day which left one young woman in tears.
Mr Mawrey said Mr Rahman, whom he described an “evasive” witness, was a man who “perceives racism everywhere” and along with his lieutenants had repeatedly used accusations of racial prejudice or Islamophobia as a stock response to criticism.
The judge found that the former mayor had run a “ruthless and dishonest” campaign to portray his Labour rival in 2014, John Biggs, as a racist and also worked “hand in glove” with the head of the borough’s council of mosques to ensure that Muslims were told they had a duty vote for Mr Rahman.
A key tool in Mr Rahman’s electoral armoury was “bribery by grant”, under which he and a small number of aides took control of deciding the sums to be donated to community groups, the judge found.
Mr Mawrey said grants were substantially increased for some groups in defiance of recommendations by Tower Hamlets’ officials and other grants, such as that to the Alzheimer’s Society, slashed to free up funds for previously ineligible recipients. In one case, grants totalling £100,000 were handed out to ten Bangladeshi or other Muslim groups for lunch clubs when none had even applied for funding.
Noting that the “lion’s share” of grants went to Bangladeshi organisations, the judge found: “The main thrust of Mr Rahman’s political campaigning… was to target the Bangladeshi community and to convince that community that loyalty to the community meant loyalty to him.”
The controversial mayor lost his powers over grants last year when Communities Secretary Eric Pickles sent in commissioners to take over a number of functions in Tower Hamlets council. Mr Pickles said yesterday’s judgment was a “vindication” of that decision.
Andy Erlam, one of the quartet of voters who brought the case and whose “exemplary courage” in doing so was praised by Mr Mawrey, said: “It is a fantastic result for democracy. There will have to be a new election for mayor. Mr Rahman cannot stand.”
READ MORE: HOW CORRUPTION SCANDAL GOES FAR BEYOND JUST RAHMAN
RAHMAN PLAYED THE ISLAMOPHOBIA CARD TO SILENCE HIS CRITICS
A new ballot may be held as early as June.
One of Mr Rahman’s closest aides, Alibor Choudhury, was also found guilty of corruption and illegal practices.
Mr Mawrey said the case proved the need for those in authority to challenge wrongdoing even when there were concerns it could lead to counter-allegations of racism.
He said: “Mr Rahman and Mr Choudhury… spent a great deal of time accusing their opponents of ‘dividing the community’, but if anyone was ‘dividing the community’, it was they.”
The judgment: ‘ruthless ambition’
“The evidence laid before this court, limited though it necessarily was to the issues raised in the petition, has disclosed an alarming state of affairs in Tower Hamlets. This is not the consequence of the racial and religious mix of the population, nor is it linked to any ascertainable pattern of social or other deprivation. It is the result of the ruthless ambition of one man.
“The real losers in this case are the citizens of Tower Hamlets and, in particular, the Bangladeshi community. Their natural and laudable sense of solidarity has been cynically perverted into a sense of isolation and victimhood, and their devotion to their religion has been manipulated – all for the aggrandisement of Mr Rahman. The result has been to alienate them from the other communities in the borough and to create resentment… Mr Rahman and Mr Choudhury… spent a great deal of time accusing their opponents, especially Mr Biggs, of ‘dividing the community’ but, if anyone was ‘dividing the community’, it was they.
“The Bangladeshi community might have thought itself fortunate to have been the recipient of the mayor’s lavish spending but in the end the benefits were small and temporary and the ill effects long-lasting. It was fool’s gold.
“Central government has already had to intervene once, and, on 4 November 2014, the Secretary of State, Mr Eric Pickles, announced the appointment of commissioners to take over a number of functions of the mayor and council, particularly in relation to grants. It is obviously not for this court to… recommend any further course of action but it seems likely that the governance of this borough will have to be examined in the not too distant future.
“On past form, it appears inevitable that Mr Rahman will denounce this judgment as yet another example of the racism and Islamophobia that have hounded him throughout his political life. It is nothing of the sort. Mr Rahman has made a successful career by ignoring or flouting the law (as this petition demonstrates) and has relied on silencing his critics by accusations of racism and Islamophobia. But his critics have not been silenced and neither has this court.
“Events of recent months in contexts very different from electoral malpractice have starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia. The law must be applied fairly and equally to everyone. Otherwise we are lost.”
TWEETS FROM #THANETRIGGED
Do they expect us to believe that so many people vote for UKIP but won’t vote for the party leader in General Election? #ThanetRigged
So @UKIP have controll over Thanet council but no UKIP MP? Thers a rabbit away if you ask me. #Thanetrigged
Counting at South Thanet should have started at 2am latest. It started at 8:30am – 7.5 hrs later #ThanetRigged
In light of what has happened the Tory MP in South Thanet should trigger a by election if he has got any decency.#ThanetRigged
#ThanetRigged Is there any where else where UKIP’s MP candidate got half the votes as the council candidates?
Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy #ThanetRigged
Kent Police reject claims of electoral fraud in South Thanet where Farage failed to become an MP
- Tory Craig Mackinley beat Ukip leader Nigel Farage by 2,800 votes
- Ukip supporters claimed the result was rigged after party won council
- But Kent Police said initial inquiries suggested there is ‘no evidence’
Police have rejected conspiracy theorist claims that the election in South Thanet was rigged to stop Nigel Farage becoming an MP.
Tory candidate Craig Mackinlay won the seat in Thursday’s election, beating the Ukip leader by 2,800 votes.
The margin of the Tory win sparked claims that the result had been fixed, but Kent Police today said that ‘initial inquiries’ suggest there is ‘no evidence’ of electoral fraud.
Some have also questioned the high turn out of Thanet South.
THE SCOTS SEEN IT COMING!
RUSSIA TODAY
General election fix? Anti-rigging campaigners issue last-minute tips to save SNP
Published time: May 06, 2015 17:13
Anti-rigging campaigners have alerted Scottish election officials of a possible general election fix targeting the SNP. They are calling on voters to photograph their ballot papers for verification.
#PeopleNOTpolls: Join the conversation
The pro-independence campaigners, who believe last year’s referendum was rigged, are eager to avoid any alleged repeat during the general election.
Police and election officials categorized the allegations in the “context of conspiracy theories after the referendum.”
The Scottish National Party (SNP) are “at high risk” of being victimized by an election fix, campaigners say.
The anti-rigging campaign, named Operation Scallop, is using its name as hashtag to teach people on social media how to vote “safely.”
To prevent ballot papers from being tampered with, they have shared an image on Twitter containing a list of instructions for voters to abide by.
A BBC ARTICLE EXPOSING ELECTORAL FRAUD FROM 2005.
When talking about electoral fraud the postal vote is usually mentioned too!
Judge upholds vote-rigging claims |
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A judge investigating vote-rigging in Birmingham’s local elections has ruled there was widespread fraud and has ordered new elections.Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC upheld allegations of postal fraud relating to six seats won by Labour in the ballot of 10 June last year. The results have been declared void and the polls in two wards must be rerun. “The system is wide open to fraud and any would-be political fraudster knows that,” Judge Mawrey said.
Judge Mawrey said evidence of “massive, systematic and organised fraud” in the campaign had made a mockery of the election and ruled that not less than 1,500 votes had been cast fraudulently in the city. The deputy high court judge said the system was “hopelessly insecure” and expressed regret that recent warnings about the failings had been dismissed by the government as “scaremongering”. He criticised the government’s insistence that the current postal voting system was working, adding: “Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising.”
Mr Mawrey had heard petitions lodged against six Labour councillors, who all strenuously deny that they abused the postal ballot system. The first petition was brought by the People’s Justice Party (PJP) against three representatives of the Bordesley Green ward, Shafaq Ahmed, Shah Jahan and Ayaz Khan. They walked out of last month’s hearing on the first day after Judge Mawrey refused an application for an adjournment to allow them further time to prepare their case. The second petition was raised by Liberal Democrat supporters against three Aston representatives, Mohammed Islam, Muhammed Afzal and Mohammed Kazi. Unsealed ballots During the hearings, which were held at the Birmingham and Midland Institute and lasted four weeks, Judge Mawrey heard how the trio were caught operating a “vote-rigging factory”. The police described how they found Mr Islam, Mr Afzal and Mr Kazi handling unsealed postal ballots in a deserted warehouse in the city.
The petitioners also accused the city’s returning officer and chief executive Lin Homer of failing to discharge her duties in accordance with electoral law. Judge Mawrey said that Ms Homer “threw the rule book out of the window” to deal with overwhelming numbers of postal vote application forms received. Solicitor Chaman Salhan, who represents two of the councillors, said the men had not been given enough time to prepare their defence. “They are victims of circumstance – in effect we have had a criminal trial under civil procedures,” Mr Salhan said. Urgent action West Midlands Police told BBC News that they were currently not pursuing a criminal inquiry. A spokesman for the force said: “We will review the judgement and see if any issues need to be addressed. Nothing relating to the case is in progress at the moment.” Speaking outside court, a spokesman for the People’s Justice Party called for postal voting to be outlawed at the general election. “The commissioner has confirmed our fear that there is every likelihood that the forthcoming general election will be blighted by postal vote fraud,” he said. The Electoral Reform Society said urgent action was needed to protect and maintain confidence in the voting system. Mr Mawrey ordered that none of the six councillors be allowed to stand for the vacant seats at the next election. |
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MORE PROOF THAT THE GENERAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED?
Vehicle containing blank election ballot papers destined for polls in Eastbourne as well as Hastings and Rye has been stolen in London, say police
A van carrying more than 200,000 ballot papers for next week’s parliamentary and council elections has been stolen.
The papers had been printed in London and were being taken to two constituencies – Hastings and Rye, and Eastbourne – before voting in the general election on 7 May.
The Metropolitan police, which are investigating the theft of the vehicle from Dagenham in east London, has informed Hastings and Eastbourne councils.
Officers found nothing to suggest the white Mercedes van had been targeted for its contents or that the theft was an attempt at electoral fraud. They told the local authorities they believed it was a coincidence the stolen van contained ballot papers. The theft took place overnight.
The vehicle contained 72,300 voting slips for Hastings and Rye, and 130,000 for Eastbourne. A Hastings council spokesman said: “We have been in touch with the Electoral Commission and, following their guidance, we have put a process in place which will ensure that these ballot papers are not used for fraudulent purposes and cannot be included in the count.”
EASTBOURNE appeared to be a safe seat for the Lib Dems in Lord Ashcroft poll in September 2014.
Hastings & Rye
Labour had been expected to win in Hastings and Rye.
Tories win two seats they were expected to lose both seats had ballot papers stolen, COINCIDENCE?
THE GUARDIAN
10 May 2015
George Galloway to mount legal challenge over election defeat
Former Respect MP announces he has begun legal proceedings to have result of Bradford West election set aside.
George Galloway has said that he has begun legal proceedings to overturn the election result in Bradford West, after he lost by more than 11,000 votes to the Labour candidate, Naz Shah.
Labour called the former Respect MP “pathetic” after he said he was hoping to get Shah debarred as an MP. Galloway accused her of lying about him on Urdu television and of falsely claiming to have been forced into marriage at 15.
Galloway also claims to have uncovered “widespread malpractice” in the battle for Bradford West, including postal voting fraud.
The Bradford West contest was dogged by claims and counter-claims between Labour and Respect over a number of issues, especially relating to Shah’s family background.
Shah – who won the seat on a 29.7% swing from Respect, polling 19,977 votes to Galloway’s 8,557 – has vowed to sue Galloway for calling the circumstances of her marriage into question.
Announcing his legal bid to overturn the election result, Galloway said: “It has come to my notice that there has been widespread malpractice in this election, particularly over postal voting. We are in the process of compiling the information which will form part of our petition to have the result set aside.”
Galloway has also added to a previous complaint he had made under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, which concerns false statements made with the intention of affecting the result of an election.
“An allegation made by Naz Shah in Urdu on a well-watched Asian TV show is both untrue and extremely serious,” he said.
Conceding defeat in the early hours of Friday morning, Galloway said: “I don’t begrudge the Labour members here their moment of celebration, of course.
“But there will be others who are already celebrating: the venal, the vile, the racists and the Zionists will all be celebrating. The hyena can bounce on the lion’s grave but it can never be a lion and in any case, I’m not in my grave. As a matter of fact, I’m going off now to plan the next campaign.”
THE GUARDIAN
23 May 2014
West Yorkshire accounts for nearly half of claims of ‘ghost’ voters, false statements and multiple votes being investigated
Police across the UK have been asked to investigate more than 50 allegations of electoral fraud related to Thursday’s elections in areas previously identified as vulnerable to vote-rigging, new figures show.
Officers in Manchester, Bradford, London and Birmingham have begun inquiries after receiving complaints about “ghost” voters, false statements by candidates and multiple attempts to vote by a single person.
The inquiries have emerged after the Guardian contacted police forces covering 16 areas that the elections watchdog has identified as being vulnerable to electoral fraud, particularly around the use of postal votes.
As well as Birmingham and Bradford, they include Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Calderdale, Coventry, Derby, Hyndburn, Kirklees, Oldham, Pendle, Peterborough, Slough, Tower Hamlets, Walsall and Woking.
West Yorkshire police, whose officers serve Bradford where former councillors have been imprisoned for electoral fraud, said they had received 21 allegations of electoral irregularities.
DI Ian Lawrie, of protective services (crime), said: “We have currently had 21 allegations that have been recorded for further investigation for election-related incidents. These include a number of matters under the Representation of the People Act 1983.”
On Thursday, there were 14 investigations across Greater London, according to a Metropolitan police spokesman. These included the arrest of two prospective councillors in Tower Hamlets, east London, and Enfield, north London, for false declarations on election papers. Police have also been asked to investigate allegations of intimidation and tampering with postal votes in the east London borough.
West Midlands police, which oversees parts of Birmingham and Walsall, said that they had received 11 allegations of electoral fraud.
In Greater Manchester, police have launched five inquiries – three inquiries into the eligibility of candidates to stand in the elections, one into a claim that a person had voted twice and another into claims of a false statement on an election leaflet, a spokesman said.
Ukip have sought to exploit electoral fraud allegations in Oldham, which is overseen by Greater Manchester police, by lampooning postal vote fraud in an election leaflet. The document, distributed by a former Labour councillor, claimed that it was easy for certain councillors to win because they can count on “the white folk not voting”.
A spokesman for Lancashire police, which covers towns including Burnley, Darwen and Hyndburn, where there have been previous allegations of fraud, said they would only release information about electoral fraud if an application was made under the Freedom of Information Act – a process that can take weeks.
Thames Valley police said they had received eight allegations of minor misconduct relating to issues such as printing irregularities, four of which have been resolved, but had not received any claims of electoral fraud.
Surrey, Derbyshire and Cambridgeshire police have not yet released any figures.
An Electoral Commission report in January identified the 16 boroughs and cities as vulnerable to electoral fraud and called for increased police involvement in elections.
At one point the commission considered dropping postal voting in these areas to combat fraud. But, following a public consultation, it decided this would unfairly hit many ordinary people who needed to vote by post.
Instead, it has urged the police to patrol polling stations during elections in the 16 named areas and dedicate more resources to investigating electoral-fraud allegations, which critics complain have been a low priority for the police.
HACKNEY GAZETTE.
6 May 2015.
Polling ‘scandal’ affects thousands – despite Hackney Council denying problems last week
12:45 06 May 2015
Hackney Town Hall, of Mare Street.
Hackney Council has been forced to admit there has been a problem issuing thousands of voters with ballot papers – many of whom may have lost out on their chance to vote tomorrow.
Town Hall last week categorically denied there was a backlog in issuing postal vote papers when the Gazette reported how a student had lost her vote because it failed to arrive before she travelled abroad, despite applying two months earlier.
But after more complaints flooded in, the council admitted on Friday that as many as 3,000 people were affected by a delay in sending out their postal votes after the cut-off date of April 22, and had promised to courier the final 270 out on Friday.
However, on Monday many people were still complaining that they had still not got their ballot papers through.
Residents new to the borough are also affected, like Amanda Fitzalan Howard who finds it “scandalous” she has lost her vote.
She received a letter in March stating that her application was on track, but discovered this week she is not on the electoral register.
She said: “On calling electoral services I have been told that they have had thousands of complaints and they blamed the new system. I was told that there was absolutely nothing I can do.”
Meanwhile, Anna Harte complained on Twitter: “My partner was only told yesterday that they need his passport. We registered in Feb!”
Becky Horsbrugh replied: “This seems to have been an issue for weeks and the council clearly not addressed it.”
Another residents, Claire Mason tweeted: “Failure of my borough’s infrastructure means that I have been… denied a vote.”
The council blamed the high number of postal vote applications – which stands at 28,000 – and the government’s new Individual Electoral Registration which meant that they had to cross-check every application with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), via a new online registration service.
A spokesman said: “In Hackney we had a very large number of people whose details didn’t match – and also people voting from their address for the first time, which meant they needed to register under IER.
“The problem has been getting the registration confirmation from the government and then processing the postal ballot application – all of which must be verified.”
MP who blew whistle on ‘banana republic’ postal vote rigging a decade ago says city still has a problem
Ten years on from the postal vote fraud scandal which saw Birmingham’s political system likened to a ‘banana republic’ an MP says he is sure there is still election fraud today.
The city council election on June 10, 2004 was perhaps the darkest day in Birmingham’s political history as it marred by vote rigging on an industrial scale which left trust in the electoral system shattered.
Yardley Lib Dem MP John Hemming, together with his colleague barrister Ayoub Khan, brought the resulting postal vote fraud court cases which a year later lead to six inner-city Labour councillors being sacked and elections in Aston and Bordesley Green re-run.
High Court Judge Richard Mawrey QC, presiding over the election court, famously declared the fraud “would disgrace a banana republic,” after his election court found there was a campaign by Labour Party activists to forge, steal, and alter thousands of postal votes.
The extent of fraud was uncovered when police found candidates and supporters handling unsealed postal ballots in a deserted warehouse in Birch Road East, Aston during a late-night raid two days before the election.
Problems also became apparent when the number of postal votes rocketed from 28,000 in 2003 to 70,000 in 2004 – and witnesses saw people delivering bags full of ballot papers to polling stations and counts.
Although the regulations were tightened in the light of the case, particularly over candidates and supporters farming votes from residents, there are sill concerns over fraud.
Former Coun Ayoub Khan pictured on Priory Queensway in Birmingham city centre
Looking back, Mr Hemming said that while it is unlikely that fraud on that industrial scale is taking place, it does still happen in Birmingham.
He said: “There was a small amount of progress after the Election Court. But there is still vote fraud going on in this city. There are signs of it.”
He is convinced there is a problem with personation, where somebody goes to a polling station and gives the name of someone else, usually a known non-voter, and takes their ballot.
“You can go from polling station to polling station, an individual could vote 20 times like this. I am checking details of ten people we know who never vote but who are down as having voted.”
He argues that only by demanding a photo identification, as is required in Northern Ireland, that this problem could be eliminated.
He also believes there is some postal vote fraud, and during the last election campaign published a photo on his website of a single post box stuffed with ballots.
Of the six Labour councillors sacked in 2005, five, Shah Jahan, Shafaq Ahmed, Ayaz Khan, Mohammed Nazrul Islam and Mohammed Amin Kazi, have never returned to front line politics after serving their suspensions.
Only Muhammed Afzal successfully challenged the findings against him at the Court of Appeal. He returned to the council in 2007 and is now chairman of human resources.
BBC NEWS
10 May 2015, Protests already.
Police arrest 15 in anti-austerity protest in London
Fifteen people, including a 16-year-old boy, were arrested following clashes with police during an anti-austerity protest close to Downing Street.
Officers in riot gear clashed with a “minority” of protesters who threw objects during the rally – which came after the Tory election victory.
Met Police said four police officers and a police staff member were injured.
A police investigation is also under way after graffiti referring to “Tory scum” was daubed on a war memorial.
Met Police said of the 15 arrested, 14 people been bailed pending further inquiries including a full review of CCTV footage and a 24-year-old man remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assault on police.
WAS LABOUR REALLY THAT BAD OR WAS THE ELECTION RIGGED FROM THE START?
THE BRITISH PEOPLE = COWARDLY, SELFISH, CORPORATE MEDIA DIRECTED FOOLS?
Upon first hearing the general election results, I was speechless, how can so many people in Britain vote a man that attacks freedom of speech, the poor, the disabled, pays for Facebook likes and enforces austerity tactics on to the poor while giving tax breaks to the rich? One word, fear! Voters are terrified it may cost them something. As if that is not bad enough the mainstream media spend all their time and effort on spreading fear, cementing that belief in to the minds of their audience. Newspapers like The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and the Daily Star were at time shockingly blatant and one sided, we have come the expect it Britain, we all know its happening the Leveson inquiry exposed it but failed to stop it. I believe its time for an inquiry into government inquiries and why government inquiries always fail to change anything.
The actions of the media throughout the whole of the election was disgusting and something should be done to prevent the media being so ridiculously one sided while anti government activists and bloggers are censored from social media and accused of selling fear.
Having said that it is up to the voters to actually look at the damage that these right winged extreme governments do when we hand the power, they damage families, welfare, the health service and even the future of our children. How can you vote a man that did his best to avoid TV debates? a man that governed us through the rise of foodbank? a political party that can’t stand the NHS? they cut disability allowance but not Banker Bonuses despite the fact it is the banks that caused the financial meltdown that left them needed a bail out not the disabled and not the poor.
UKIP gain one seat 0.2% of seats DESPITE winning 12.6% of the vote, I am no UKIP fan but the voting system is obviously massively flawed to allow that. David Cameron has a small majority, smaller than that of John Major and look what happened to him.
The trouble is, I fear the British media would not allow any real change to take place but I also believe the British media is losing control slowly but surely, until they lose control of the mind of the masses, right winged extremist governments that implement unjust laws, tax the poor the feed the rich and greed and give tax breaks to multinational corporations will carry on governing us and the corporate media will carry on telling you “everything is OK.”
After all 650 constituencies had been declared, the results were:
| Party | Leader | Votes | Seats | |||
| Conservative Party | David Cameron | 11,334,920 (36.9%) | 331 (50.9%) |
331 / 650
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| Labour Party | Ed Miliband | 9,344,328 (30.4%) | 232 (35.7%) |
232 / 650
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| UK Independence Party | Nigel Farage | 3,881,129 (12.6%) | 1 (0.2%) |
1 / 650
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| Liberal Democrats | Nick Clegg | 2,415,888 (7.9%) | 8 (1.2%) |
8 / 650
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| Scottish National Party | Nicola Sturgeon | 1,454,436 (4.7%) | 56 (8.6%) |
56 / 650
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| Green Party | Natalie Bennett | 1,154,562 (3.8%) | 1 (0.2%) |
1 / 650
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| Democratic Unionist Party | Peter Robinson | 184,260 (0.6%) | 8 (1.2%) |
8 / 650
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| Plaid Cymru | Leanne Wood | 181,694(0.6%) | 3 (0.5%) |
3 / 650
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| Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 176,232 (0.6%) | 4 (0.6%) |
4 / 650
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| Ulster Unionist Party | Mike Nesbitt | 114,935 (0.4%) | 2 (0.3%) |
2 / 650
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| Social Democratic & Labour Party | Alasdair McDonnell | 99,809 (0.3%) | 3 (0.5%) |
3 / 650
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| Others | N/A | 349,487 (1.1%) | 1 (0.2%) |
1 / 650
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WHY DO PEOPLE VOTE FOR THE CONSERVATIVES?
Looking at the polls to the general election amazes and shocks me, despite the Conservatives doing such of a terrible job on “governing the country” over the last five years there is still a chance they could win the election! In the last five years Britain has seen rioting, the rise of food bank, zero hour contracts, a war in Libya that led to Libya migrants being washed up at coastlines in Italy and Libya, internet censorship and MPs claiming £40 pound for breakfast and then telling us they could live on £53 per week (the amount of money a single person gets on Job Seekers Allowance.) Deals between media and the government that served the interest of both but not the people and unregulated bailed out banks continuing to pay huge bonuses. The Conservatives have lowered expectations of politicians and politics, there greed is shocking and disgusting and it matches their hypocrisy, double standards and ignorance almost perfectly. The newspapers claim they are speaking for “the people” but like the government the newspapers are biased, they like their tax breaks, they don’t want to lose them to some “left wing” government, when they say “Save Britain” they mean “Save us, from paying tax again.”
As pointed out by a member of the audience on the TV debate David Cameron tried so hard to avoid, the only thing the Conservative government seem to care about is “money, economic growth, profit” they have no humanity whatsoever, they care very little for the poor and weak and people that can not help but claim benefits are made feel like scroungers and lowlifes whereas well paid politicians live in obscene luxury pointing their fingers.
I am not saying “vote Labour” or “the Red Tories” as the Scottish correctly call them, I am just saying; How do a political party that represent 1% of the nation end up with over 30% of the vote? Propaganda as usual, the mainstream media is the voice of the corporations, the elite and the government.
But so far considering that cutting Britain’s deficit was the “main priority” of the Conservative party and fixing the economy was so essential it involved our government having to make “hard decisions” like cutting disability allowance, benefits and public services yet the economy is still far from fixed despite these drastic actions. Not every decision was a “hard decision” like the decision to cut the top rate of tax, the decision not to regulate banks and of course the easy decisions to not condemn Israel and to allow corporations to contribute almost no tax.
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The Ukip leader says he has never taken drugs himself but that he believes the ‘time has come’ for legalizing ‘certain drugs’
He also said the war on drugs was lost years ago. For once I actually agree with him, making criminals out of drug addicts or experimenters is not the right thing to do, its lazy, judgmental and it doesn’t work, society proves it.
VOTE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ON THE PAST
We are SORRY for the past.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FOR EDUCATION
We are SORRY for tuition fee lies.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FOR LOWER TAXES
Not for you for business, SORRY
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FOR THE NHS
Nick Clegg is SORRY for the NHS.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FOR THE WORKING CLASS
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS would like to say SORRY to the working class
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FOR THE FUTURE
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS would like to say SORRY for anything we may do in the future that may or may not piss you off.
VOTE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, SORRY THAT YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME READING THIS, SORRY.
VOTE CONSERVATIVES.
CONSERVATIVES FOR THE ECONOMY
Conservatives will carry on allowing huge businesses and bankers to do whatever they want, because it benefits the economy.
CONSERVATIVES FOR EDUCATION
A Conservative government would carry on offering young, students with wealthy parents a chance of a fine education, poor people will be kept dumb as possible.
CONSERVATIVES FOR THE NHS
A Conservative pledge more money (again) this time we will, I promise.
CONSERVATIVES FOR BUSINESS
Zero hours, Work for benefits, benefit cuts, cheap wages and tax loopholes businesses will love it.
CONSERVATIVES ON CRIME
Conservative will sweep aside politically correct shit like “human rights” criminals days are numbered unless the criminal wears a suit, criminal bankers must be forgiven.
CONSERVATIVES FOR THE FUTURE
Keeping Thatcherism alive.
VOTE LABOUR.
LABOUR FOR THE WORKING CLASS
Labour guarantee not to fuck your life up as much as the Tories would.
LABOUR FOR THE NHS
Labour guarantee not to fuck the NHS up as much as the Tories would.
LABOUR FOR EDUCATION
Labour guarantee not to fuck the education system up as much as the Tories would.
LABOUR FOR FAIRNESS
Labour guarantee to be slightly less evil than the Tories and Ed Miliband guarantees he will be slightly less of a irritating, smug hypocrite than David Cameron.
LABOUR FOR BUSINESS
Labour guarantee to force multinational corporations to pay slightly more tax than Tories would.
LABOUR THE ECONOMY
Labour guarantee a slight rise in minimum wage and will pay out slightly more benefits to the sick and the poor than the Tories will.
LABOUR FOR THE FUTURE
Not as slimy and racist as UKIP not as viscous as Conservative not as fair as Tony Benn but not as bad as the rest of them.
VOTE DAVID CAMERON BECAUSE DAVID CAMERON LOVES JESUS.
British government = Corrupt, Liars, Hypocrites and Idiots!
Is this the man to save Britain?
Who put shit in the sandwich’s?
“You mean that we are not actually Conservatives?”
“VOTE FOR ME, Or i will flick this snot at you”
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I FEEL THE URGE TO VOTE.
2015 and here comes another general election, it is the time that David Cameron changes from a war mongering, greedy, dissociated snob into a lovely, caring, smiling man that gran loves. He will use his well spoken tone to give the impression that he is not a war mongering, greedy, dissociated snob, unfortunately for him we know the truth. He will listen and pretend to give a fuck and claim is plan is about to show some positive results. Lower petrol prices and a slightly improved economy have come at a very convenient time, the question is are people really stupid enough to fall for even more lies from a well established and well known liar? If a poor person not voting is a vote for the Tories, the other and more important question is who do you vote for?
VOTE UKIP.
Privatize NHS, more tax cuts for rich, huge supporters of Israel. Racist and do not represent the poor. No thanks.
VOTE CONSERVATIVE.
Privatize NHS, tax cuts for the rich, huge supporters of Israel. Snobbish and do not represent the poor. No Thanks.
VOTE LIB DEMS.
Nick Clegg once stated in a conversation with David Cameron down a microphone he did not know was turned on “it had supposed to be a T.V debate but I can’t find anything to disagree on” No Thanks.
VOTE LABOUR.
Tony Blair was merely a corporate puppet and Gordon Brown began the bank bail out. Not much is known on what Ed Miliband will actually do or what his policies are, he is a huge supporter of Israel and he has the easiest job in the world, take the piss out of David Cameron ridiculous performance so far. He is depending on people hating David Cameron and Nigel Farage enough to vote for him, they probably do hate David Cameron and Nigel Farage enough to vote him but how different to David Cameron and Nigel Farage is Ed Miliband? No Thanks.
VOTE BNP.
If I was going to vote BNP I would switch my vote to UKIP, they are almost the same. No thanks.
VOTE GREEN PARTY.
I am considering voting the Green party, not because I feel the Green party perfectly represents me but just because nobody else even comes close to representing me. The trouble the Green Party are going to have is airtime. BBC constantly speaks about the big four, lame and cringe worthy publicity stunts that are only worth watching if something goes wrong take over the news and the papers. Where as less popular parties like the Green Party are almost completely ignored by the mainstream media, a fair election requires much more airtime to less well known parties. If lobbying was banned or capped at £1000 this would prevent political parties like the Conservatives, UKIP, and even Labour from taking huge sums of money from rich individuals. That money is used to pay from political campaigns, airtime, positive media and irritating political posters, scattered around our city centers. Government graffiti.
Below is a list of all political parties in the UK. What is the point of having all this choice if mainstream media will only focus of three or four parties?
- The Electoral Commission list of Registered Political Parties
- Represented in House of Commons:
- The Conservative Party
- The Association of Conservative Clubs
- The Bow Group
- The Bruges Group
- Campaign for Conservative Democracy
- Conservatives Against A Federal Europe closed down when Iain Duncan Smith became leader of the party
- Conservative Christian Fellowship
- Conservative Future
- conservativehome.com, re-defining authentic conservatism
- Counservative Councillors’ Association
- Conservative Way Forward seeks to promote Thatcherism
- Conservative Women’s Organisation
- Imperial Tories.com
- LibDems 4 Cameron
- Local constituency websites
- Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Tory Radio
- Welsh Conservative Party
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Green Party of England and Wales
- Independent Kidderminster Hospital & Health Concern
- The Labour Party
- Local Labour Party websites
- Co-operative Party
- Compass, democratic left pressure group
- Labourhome
- Labour Briefing – an unofficial voice of the left of the British Labour Party
- LabourList.org
- Labour Network
- Labour Representation Committee
- Labour Uncut, inside Labour politics
- Progress, Labour’s progressives
- Refounding Labour
- Save The Labour Party
- Scientists For Labour
- Scottish Labour Party
- UNOFFICIAL site on the Labour Party
- The Liberal Democrats
- Green Liberal Democrats
- LibDems 4 Parliament, resource centre for Liberal Democrats involved in the approval and selection of candidates
- Local LibDem websites
- Parliamentary Candidates Association
- Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Welsh Liberal Democrats
- Women Liberal Democrats
- Respect Party
- Plaid Cymru
- SDLP – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- The Scottish National Party
- The Federation of Student Nationalists is the student wing of the SNP
- Sinn Féin
- Ulster Unionist Party
- The Conservative Party
- 9% Growth Party
- Abolish Half Parliamentary Seats Now
- Abolish the Congestion Charge
- Action to Save St. John’s Hospital Party
- Albion Alliance
- Alliance for Green Socialism
- Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
- Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Alternative Party
- Animals Count
- Animal Protection Party
- Anti Party
- Anti-Political Political Party
- Apolitical Democrats
- Arkangel, for animal liberation
- Ashford Independent Association
- Barnsley Independent Group
- Beaconsfield Independent Electors Association
- Best of a Bad Bunch
- Better Bedford Independent Party
- Borders Party
- Boston Bypass Independents Group
- Britainthinks
- British Constitution Party
- British National Party
- British National Pride, Duty and Obligation
- British First Party
- British People’s Party
- British Progressive Links.
- British Public Party
- Simon Gardner’s list of Business Political Donors Lists known donations to UK political parties 1994-8 from information supplied by Labour Research
- Cambridge Socialists
- Campaign for an Independent England
- Campaign for Independent Politicians
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Canvey Island Independent Party
- The Capitalist Party
- Centreground Party
- Charity Commission
- Christian Movement for Great Britain
- Christian Party
- Christian Peoples Alliance
- Church of the Militant Elvis Party
- Citizens’ Action Party
- clear, cannabis law reform
- Common Good
- Common Sense Party
- Commonwealth Party of Britain
- Communist Party of Britain
- Communist Party of Great Britain
- Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), and blog
- Community Action Party
- Community Campaign (Hart)
- Constitutional Monarchy Association
- Co-operative Party
- Cornish Democrats
- Cornish National Party
- Countryside Alliance
- Devizes Guardians
- Democracy Movement, defends liberal democracy in Britain and across Europe
- Devolve!
- Direct Democracy (Communist) Party
- Dover Alliance
- East Herts People
- England First Party
- England’s Parliamentary Party
- English Democrats
- English Independence Party
- English Radical Alliance
- Environmental Protest in Britain
- Europeans Party
- Ewell Court Residents’ Association
- Equal Parenting Alliance Party
- Esher Residents Association
- Families First
- Farmers for Action
- Federal Union campaigns for federalism for the UK, Europe and the world
- For Darwen
- Forward Wales, defunct. Archived site
- Free Democratic Party
- Freedom & Responsibility
- Freedom Party
- Free Scotland Party
- Friends of the Earth
- Fur Play Party
- The Generalist Party
- Get The Snouts Out the Trough Party
- Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland
- Green Party of England and Wales
- Green Party of Northern Ireland
- Greenpeace UK
- Grumpy Old Men Political Party
- The Had Enough Party, defunct
- Harry Bear for Parliament
- Havering Residents’ Association
- Hawkwell Residents Association
- Henley Residents Group
- Hersham Village Society
- Hinchley Wood Residents Association
- I Am An Englishman
- The Idle Toad
- Impact Party
- Imperial Party
- The independence index
- Independent Green Voice, Scotland
- Independent Network, promotes and supports independent candidates and non-party politicians
- Independent Labour Network, defunct
- Independent Loughton Residents Association
- Independents to save Queen Mary’s Hospital
- Independent Working Class Association
- Individual Capitalist Party
- Integrity UK Party
- International Socialist Group, British Section of the Fourth International
- International Socialist Resistance
- Irish Republican Socialist Movement
- Irish Republican Socialist Party
- John Marek Independent Party, defunct
- Jury Team, politics without parties
- Justice and Anti-Corruption Party
- The Labour Co-ordinating Committee, defunct
- The Land is Ours, campaigns peacefully for access to the land
- Landless Peasant Party
- League Against Cruel Sports
- The Left List, defunct
- Legalise Cannabis Alliance
- Liberal Party
- UK Libertarian Alliance
- Libertarian Party
- Liberty: human rights and civil liberties
- Ligali Party
- Llais Gwynedd, The Voice of Gwynedd
- Mainstream
- The Make Politicians History Party, defunct
- Mansfield Independent Forum
- Mebyon Kernow the party for Cornwall
- Medway Independent Party
- Men’s Positive Discrimination Party
- Mercian Nationalist Party
- Middle England Party
- Molesey Residents’ Association
- Monarchy Wales
- Money Reform Party
- Morley Borough Independents
- Motorists, Equity & Unity Party
- Movement for Active Democracy
- MP3 Party
- Mums’ Army
- mums4justice
- The National Democrats website archive
- National Front
- Nationalist Alliance
- National Liberal Party
- National Party
- Natural Law Party
- New Alliance has a Campaign Against the Single Currency
- New Britain
- Newcastle Academy With Christian Values Party
- New Communist Party of Britain
- Newid
- New Millennium Bean Party
- New Party
- NHS Improvement Society
- No2EU: Yes to Democracy
- No Candidate Deserves My Vote!
- Nork Residents’ Association
- Northern Progress Party
- Northumbrian National Party
- North Yorkshire Coast Party
- Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- One World Party
- Organisation of Free Democrats
- Orkneyjar Autonomist Movement
- Peace and Progress
- Peace Party
- The Pensioners Party
- People Against Bureaucracy Group
- PNDP: Peoples National Democratic Party
- People’s Party Essex
- Peoples Voice
- Pirate Party
- PLC Party
- Populist Alliance
- Procapitalism Party
- ProLife Alliance
- Progressive Unionist Party
- Protest Vote Party
- Public Services Not Private Profit
- Radical Party of Great Britain
- Ramsgate First
- Red Action
- Represent
- Representative Democracy
- Representative Party
- Republic
- Republican Party of Great Britain
- Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell
- The Resolutionist Party
- Restoration Party
- Resurgence
- Revolutionary Communist Group
- Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
- Romford Residents Association
- Save Bedford Hospital
- Save Chase Farm
- Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers
- Scottish Democratic Alliance
- Scottish Green Party
- Scottish Republican Socialist Party
- Scottish Republican Socialist Movement
- Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party
- Scottish Socialist Party
- Scottish Unionist Party
- Scottish Voice
- Seagulls Party
- Senior Citizens Party
- Seniors Network
- Shetlander Nationalist Party
- Social Democratic Party
- Social Justice Party
- Socialist Alliance
- Socialist Equality Party
- Socialist Labour Party
- Socialist Party (formerly ‘Militant’)
- Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Socialist People’s Party
- Socialist Studies
- Socialist Unity
- Socialist Workers Party
- Social Justice Party
- Solidarity Federation, British section of the International Workers’ Association
- Solidarity Scotland
- Southampton First
- Southport Party
- SPEAK, The Voice for the Rights of Animals
- Stoneleigh and Auriol Residents’ Association
- Stop Congestion Charging
- Stop the BNP
- Stop the War Coalition
- Tamsin Omond to the Commons
- Tattenhams Residents’ Association
- Telepathic Partnership
- Telford & Wrekin Peoples Association
- Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents’ Association
- Third Way, the voice of the radical centre
- Thornaby Independent Association
- Throne Out
- TODOS
- Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Trades unions and labour organisations, including the TUC site which at the appropriate times has Congress information
- Traditional Unionist Voice
- TRIP: The Real Independent People’s Party, defunct
- Trust Party
- TUSP
- Ulster Democratic Party. Dissolved
- Ulster Nation
- U. K. Community Issues Party
- United Kingdom First
- United Kingdom Independence Party
- UK People Quality Life Party
- UKpopdems, Popular Democratic Party
- United Democratic Party UK
- United People’s Party
- United Voice
- United Workers Party
- Unity for Peace and Socialism
- Unlock Democracy, incorporating Charter 88
- Vectis National Party, I. of Wight
- Veritas
- Virtue Currency Cognitive Appraisal Party
- Vivamus
- Welsh Socialist Alliance
- Wessex Regionalist Party
- West Ewell & Ruxley Residents’ Association
- White Nationalist Party
- Workers’ Liberty
- Workers People’s Party
- Workers’ Revolutionary Party
- World People’s Resistance Movement (Britain)
- Yarm Independent Association
- World Truth Coalition
- Yes 2 Europe
- YOU Party
- Young Greens
- Your Decision
- Your Right to Democracy
- Youth for a Free Europe
- Youth Party
- Isle of Man
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Money definitely can not buy good looks! The owner of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is so ugly you kind of expect to see a bit of dribble on his cheek or a few baked beans on his face, I bet his shirt is covered with his last meal.
ALL POLICE IN BRITAIN NEED TASERS TO PROTECT THEM FROM YOU LUNATICS.
GENERAL ELECTION 2015 COMING SOON. Which Israeli supporting, corporate puppet Zionist are you going to vote for?
GENERAL ELECTION 2015 COMING SOON. David Cameron should be aware that it will take more then low petrol prices and a slight improvement in the economy to make people forget that he is a corrupt, untrustworthy, war mongering, snobbish, greedy, lying, PONCE.
Our idiotic, delusional world leaders walk through France holding hands to show unity against terrorism yet about 20000 children die everyday through hunger related illnesses, due to the greed and ignorance of our world leaders and their bosses (BANKERS, CORPS ANYONE WITH RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY)
Ed Miliband and the Labour party have promised not to spend the election build up bashing Tory policies, I would advise against this, because NOBODY in Britain who votes for Ed Miliband will vote for him because they like Ed Miliband, they will vote for him because they hate David Cameron.
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EPISODES 1 TO 5. Fuck the music industry, corporate greed, the education system, war on terror, David Cameron, Barrack Obama, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Theresa May’s attacks on human rights, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Tesco, Walmart, Nike, Sony, Apple, slavery, and oil wars, cannabis laws, banks, financial ombudsman service, Mortgages PLC Glasgow, the ILLUMINATI, NEW WORLD ORDER, hypocrisy, government lies, Nick Clegg, BBC, CNN PROPAGANDA, child labour, work for benefits, workfare, corporate tax evasion and avoidance.
