Corbyn's Crooked Campaigners

[Zacs-Master]

You couldn't make it up:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12144213/Key-member-of-Jeremy-Corbyns-campaign-team-has-conviction-for-election-fraud.html

[Svejk]

Dragging Coulson into this is ridiculous as well. What he did in his previous job had no bearing on his subsequent post or politics in general.

[Gromit]

Vote rigging and election fraud existed long before the Labour Party even existed. The vast majority of present day allegations are malcious and very rarely result in a prosecution.

As Tora says, all parties are guilty. Here are a couple of UKIP ones that didn't get any attention in the national press...

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/ukip-candidate-admits-election-fraud-51557.aspx

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Arbury-UKIP-candidate-Hugh-Mennie-charged-forging-signatures-election-nomination-form/story-22363719-detail/story.html

[ToraToraTora]

QED, originally a mathematical declaration is often used as a short hand way of saying that something has been well demonstrated above, it does not mean "end of".

[Zacs-Master]

Erm, yes it does. It simply signals the completion of the proof.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Q.E.D.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/qed

[Gromit]

Worth pointing out that 'Momentum' is an organisation independent of the Labour Party.
None of its members are elected, or paid, or have any official copacity within Labour.
They are unpaid volunteers with their own agenda. They might have campaigned for Corbyn, and Corbyn won, but that does not mean Corbyn is guilty by association.

[Svejk]

///The vast majority of present day allegations are malcious and very rarely result in a prosecution. ///

Well this one certainly wasn't and it did. ;)

[bazwillrun]

most election fraud at all levels now is from and by asians...gotta love postal voting...they do !

[jomifl]

Baz. it was made for them.. and they save postage too with forty voting slips in one envelope.

[ichkeria]

"...the opposition will dig up an example from the other side. Demonstrated twice in this thread. "

I think that is because of this:
"Why, so it seems to me, is it always left wing people who are involved in electoral fraud."
Always unwise to generalise :-)

[ichkeria]

Or should I say ' "often" unwise' lol

[Jackdaw33]

Momentum is Militant reincarnated. Watch out for the resurrection of Derek Hatton.

[jourdain2]

I'm a bit baffled. I ceased to trust politicians (and postal voting) quite a few years ago; I thought everyone knew that everything was skewed/manipulated these days :( Sad.

On the positive side, real people (me included) managed to raise £450 for York Flood Relief through a huge village Jumble Sale on Sat. (still working hard to clear up and personally k*n* a*c*k*e*r*ed). : ) Not sad. Have to have faith in people.

I mention this just to show how removed politics is from real life.