I Wonder How Many Votes He Gets?

[Svejk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32545431

[Svejk]

I expect he has a few postal votes in the bag already.

[naomi24]

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Svejk]

Strange situation. He could, in theory, be elected.

[naomi24]

Bet he'll be good at filling in his expenses claims.

[Svejk]

If he was a conservative there'd be more interest in him. And if he was UKIP,,,,,, Lol.

[youngmafbog]

I wonder why the resident left on her have not commented ?

[ladybirder]

Exactly Svejk. This thread would be at least two pages long by now.

[Svejk]

Oops. Here's another one.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/560084/banff-and-buchan-labour-candidate-suspended-after-court-appearance/

[ichkeria]

"guilty of buying about £900 worth of train tickets using a bank account he knew contained insufficient funds."

Does that not just mean "overdrawing your account"??

[Jackdaw33]

Only if the cheques were honoured. If they bounced then an offence may have been committed, e.g. obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.

[naomi24]

//Does that not just mean "overdrawing your account"?? //

No. Overdrawing on your account would mean a cheque you'd written was honoured. In this case he acquired tickets knowing that the funds to pay for them weren't available. In short he got his tickets but the rail company didn't get its money. That's how I read it anyway.

[ichkeria]

Interesting: presumably the ballot papers will have to be marked in each case so that people are aware they might cast their vote for an ineligible candidate.

[chaptazbru2]

Naughty man, but it won't stop me voting Labour come next Thursday !

[Gromit]

This could turn a safe Conservative seat into a UKIP gain.

Bone has an 12,000 majority. He is a bit of a nutter. UKIP would expect to do well in this Constituency anyway, but with 13,000 Labour votes now up for grabs, a lot of those are more likely to go to UKIP than to the Tories.

It makes the seat a lot more interesting.

[ichkeria]

Labour voters in Wellingborough must be seething. Imagine being faced with Bone or UKIP!!
I'd probably still put my cross next to the Labour candidate.

[New Judge]

Even stranger than this is the matter of former singer Ronnie Carroll who died on April 13th.

He is standing as the “Eurovisionary” candidate in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency and because of the Electoral rules his name cannot be removed. I suppose it’s a useful alternative vote for those fancying “none of the above”. :-)

[Svejk]

13 (I think) Greek MPs were elected while in prison.