Conservative Party spending return for 2015 GE

fluxo

Or legalise vote selling, bundle them up and trade them on a commodities exchange.

tapzilla2k

Channel 4 News/Crick are the ones who uncovered this one, the Electoral commission only just got it's act together before the cut off date for investigations came up. If and when charges are bought, then I suspect Channel 4 News will tone down it's reporting. The media seem more interested in undermining Corbyn than reporting on some fairly serious allegations around the breaking of Electoral Law. It's a dull subject for most I'll admit and Electoral Law can be a bit arcane, but the potential is here to unseat a Government.

If I remember correctly the laws that are alleged to have been broken were bought in during the early Blair years. Quite simply, Blair may strike from beyond the Electoral Grave.


We had that before - Rotten Boroughs.

Ed Selley

There's only one credible reason why other parties wouldn't be sticking the boot on this as much as we expect- that if a really thorough investigation is carried out, other instances of this will be found.

tapzilla2k

That may well be the case, but Labour only had it's pink bus and not a fleet of battlebuses like the Tories did. Anyway we shall see how this one unfolds in due course.

Ed Selley

O Rly? And before the inevitable accusations of right wing bias and smear are levelled, it seems only fair to point out that it was Staines who brought the original incident with the Tories to light ahead of everyone else back in February.

Sonic67

Top LibDem Avoided Overspend By Not Declaring Battle Bus

IronGiant

How many of these things were there?  

Sonic67

Labour too.


Labour facing questions over election expenses

tapzilla2k

Dunno but somebody made a killing from hiring out the coaches and repainting them in blue, Red and Yellow.

(Yes I was aware that Labour faces similar allegations, once again I could not resist one last joke about that pink minibus).

krish

As you know, Dimbledore has Miliband on BBC QT next week, so it could be raised there, and perhaps the fate of the "EdStone".