tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post114623186514356779..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: LibDem Candidate Arrested in BirminghamIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-29951030414754198382009-05-21T10:40:08.320+01:002009-05-21T10:40:08.320+01:00Lib Dem candidate finally cleared of all charges w...Lib Dem candidate finally cleared of all charges with no case to answer:<br />http://www.birminghampost.net/news/politics-news/2009/05/21/nechells-candidate-cleared-of-forging-votes-65233-23677345/Raddershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00157114922461115050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146242791988344592006-04-28T17:46:00.000+01:002006-04-28T17:46:00.000+01:00Albert Bore is just plain wrong. He is doing the s...Albert Bore is just plain wrong. He is doing the same thing that the Lib Dem eccentric self-publicist John Hemming did last year when he was the Tories lap-dog as Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council. Hemming called for Labour to expel councillors who had been accused of postal vote fraud, but not found guilty of it. If Coun. Khan is found guilty of fraud... that is the time for actions to be taken against him.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the sanctimonious Hemming seems strangely silent over the allegations of Lib Dem fraud on his blog now.Bob Piperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13792439016502695274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146235384794090532006-04-28T15:43:00.000+01:002006-04-28T15:43:00.000+01:00Given the number of complaints lodged about candid...Given the number of complaints lodged about candidates across the country at this time of year I think it fair for a party to take a view in the first instance as to whether it sounds like they are vexatious or not and that seems to be what has happened.<BR/><BR/>Talking of vexatious complaints, a friend of mine who won a county bye-election in Oxford was reported to the police by the local Tories because a tiny fraction of the print run of one of her leaflets had slipped in the Riso and lost the imprint off the bottom of the page.<BR/><BR/>They took a year to formally clear her (because they have better things to do) - was she supposed to be suspended from the group and so on during all that time? Nonsense.<BR/><BR/>Someone close to the action has to take a view.Jock Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15550558005508328017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146234144644003592006-04-28T15:22:00.000+01:002006-04-28T15:22:00.000+01:00hence the phrase "sub-continental practices"hence the phrase "sub-continental practices"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146233825092656412006-04-28T15:17:00.000+01:002006-04-28T15:17:00.000+01:00Close, but no cigar, Contratory.Close, but no cigar, Contratory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146233538323757782006-04-28T15:12:00.000+01:002006-04-28T15:12:00.000+01:00What, Birmingham, England?What, Birmingham, England?ContraToryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479054357874249861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146233462854141622006-04-28T15:11:00.000+01:002006-04-28T15:11:00.000+01:00Of course he can't stand down. The legal time fra...Of course he can't stand down. The legal time frame for withdrawal of nomination has long since past.<BR/><BR/>But the Lib Dems can suspend him from their party and not allow him the whip if elected.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, the election law nerd in me is being rankled today.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08040609999717940606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1146233096623721702006-04-28T15:04:00.000+01:002006-04-28T15:04:00.000+01:00At the risk of being accused of soemthing I am not...At the risk of being accused of soemthing I am not, has anyone else noted how a large proportion of these candidates, accused of, and sometimes convicted for, postal ballot fraud seem to come from a fairly limited geographic region, globally speaking?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com