So this Oldham West by-election. There's certain to be massive fraud on the postal votes by our

[Berni]

Allan chums because - y'know - that's how they (electoral) roll.

Is anyone keeping an eye out for this, by any chance? Or is everyone too scared of being called a racist to actually ensure our Parliamentary elections don't descend to third-world levels of rigging?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

to be heard if it starts claiming foul play against an immigrant community.

Until it happens to a Conservative candidate, nothing will happen, I'm afraid.

[Snin]

Two Tory candidates arrested, Yorkshire Post, 22 April 2010

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN062 55/SN06255.pdf (http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06255/SN06255.pdf)


though it does seem these swarthy types like voting and democracy so much they like to do it more than once :-)



Tory candidate accused of EDL plot expected to be forced out within days

Defence minister Anna Soubry says Afzal Amin, suspended as candidate in Dudley North, should resign from party if allegations are true

Afzal Amin
Afzal Amin, Tory candidate for Dudley North, is accused of plotting with the English Defence League to increase his vote by stirring up a row over a local mosque. Photograph: Justin Sutcliffe/eyevine


A Conservative parliamentary candidate who was recorded allegedly plotting with the English Defence League to increase his vote by intervening in a row over a new mosque is expected to be formally removed by the party within days.

As the defence minister Anna Soubry urged Afzal Amin to “fess up” and “go now” if the allegations are true, Tory sources indicated that his position is unsustainable after the Mail on Sunday published a transcript of his discussions with the EDL.

The newspaper reported that Amin, the Tory candidate in Dudley North, had discussed with the EDL a plan to march against a mosque in the constituency that would then be called off.

In a video published by the Mail on Sunday, Amin is recorded saying that he would take the credit for persuading the EDL to call off the march on the eve of the general election. He also pledged to act as the EDL’s “unshakeable ally” in parliament if they were able to help him.


Amin, a Sandhurst-trained former army captain who served as chairman of the Armed Forces Muslim Association, has been suspended pending a formal investigation. But Tory sources indicated that Amin’s position was unsustainable. A senior Tory source said: “What’s amazing is he hasn’t fallen on his sword already.”

Amin said he had been “grossly misrepresented” by the Mail on Sunday which provided “small snippets” of more than 27 hours of conversations with the former EDL leader Tommy Robinson. He said he had “involved Chief Superintendent Chris Johnson from the start” about the discussions which had initially begun as an attempt to persuade the EDL not to hold a rally which went ahead anyway in February.

But, in a blow to Amin, Johnson issued a statement in which he confirmed that they had spoken of the candidate’s attempts to promote dialogue between the mosque and the EDL but denied that he knew of the plan. The chief superintendent said: “At no point have we ever discussed an EDL demonstration on the dates in question and I have no knowledge of his alleged plans.”