Tower Hamlets election fraud

[TheOstrich]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -electoral

If "intimidation and corruption" took place as alleged, why was this guy only fined - why wasn't he jailed?

[cromwell]

Probably because he will say he knew nothing about it, as if.

He was so bad the Labour party kicked him out.

[Workingman]

I though the act of vote rigging was a criminal offence, so for that alone he should be arrested and charged.

However, to answer your question: You know why, I know why, and the majority of those of us not under the same 'spiritual influence' (what a strange euphemism for the Grauniad to use) as Rahman know why the police are not applying the law.

[cromwell]

"Community cohesion".

Otherwise known as don't prosecute them, it might give the BNP some votes.

[Aggers]

Oh dear.

What a corrupt and perverse society we live in now.

[cromwell]

This really is a shocking tale the more you read about it. There is a good article today in the Telegraph about it.

It has taken four ordinary members of the public to expose this man, and in the process they risked bankruptcy to do it!

The Police and the Electoral Commission were described as "useless"" by the leader of these four citizens.

This is a story of electoral fraud, postal voting "factories", intimidation of journalists and opponents and it has barely registered on the TV news at all!

I wonder why?

If this had been a UKIP Mayor the BBC would have run the story every night for a year, but a Muslim mayor, Labour party, postal vote fraud - the bury the story as far as they can. Their bias really is appalling.

[Workingman]

The story does not appear on the BBC website. Not in Home, or UK news, or Businees and as the Politics section is supended during the election it is not in the Elction 2015 section, but we are told that candidates are having a 'keepy-uppy' football competition.

It has been hidden from view as though it never existed.

On Sky it is relegated to number 14 and is in the Other News section.

You did of course know that a UKIP candidate was spoken to by police for handing out sausage roles at a campaign event. The candidate is also a 'quoter' he quotes people. Look:

"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions.
"In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."

It is a good quote and there are many historical examples of it in action if the police and journalists could be bothered to look.

However it is from one Herr Hitler, and therefore it is deduced that the candidate is not only a sausage roll peddler, he is a Nazi sausage roll peddler.

The BBC has the full exclusive story here.

[Suff]

Sounds like something the Electoral Commission should be looking into. But don't hold your breath, it was created by Blair and Brown......

Like just about everything else they did. Useless...

Of course if you are going to quote, then you should quote the most effective spouter of that font of knowledge. In terms of removal of civil rights, Hitler is right up there with Stalin....

[Workingman]

Suff, given the hidden nature of the story it is no surprise that you have had difficulty getting information.

It was the Electoral Commissioner who threw Rahman out of office, declared the result void and ordered a new election, with Rahman banned from standing. He has also been removed from the electoral role. It was the Commissioner who brought the subjects of violence and intimidation, postal votes, abuse of grants and the police having too many "connections" in the community, to the attention of the public.

However, it was forced to review the case due to the action of the four brave people who decided to take Rahman on. Without them we would almost certainly have heard nothing and he would still be Mayor.

[Suff]

I did read something about it but my reaction was not so much more interest as Quelle Surprise.

I'm not surprised the commissioner had to be forced to look at this and review it. Now, I wonder, who reviews the actions of the commission. A case of who is watching those who are watching us....

I'm sure that they will be stating that with "only" £26m budget they rely heavily on the public to support them. I do have some sympathy with that because if they put only one person on each MP's area, at £25,000 per year, that's some £16m gone already.

What I want to see is a 100% scrutiny of all elections in the UK until these kinds of shenanigans stop. OK if that means we have to take £1bn off the foreign aid to fund it, so be it. But it has to be done. Any party promising to do that would get my vote... Notably none are.